Jonny Wayne Lyrics

• Jonny was a youngling who was brought up in the Southern state of Texas/
• Dad has left us so he only knows his mother/
• Wakes up early every morning/ Break of dawn and makes her breakfast/
• 'Cause she has not left her bed since Daddy's very early exit/
• Jonny never knew him just the ruin he was leaving/
• Not a photo left at home so wouldn't know him if he'd seen him/
• Mum is quiet on the subject he doesn't object till her breathing/
• Becomes tight upon her lungs and doctors visit every evening/
• Jonny hates his lessons 'cause he's different to the others/
• Stayed at home and had no brothers so his social skills were smothered/
• Played alone and so he stutters b b bullies make him suffer/
• So he's grateful least at first to stay at home and nurse his mother/
• Jonny's really trying but she's dying whilst regretting/
• Loving someone who's a drunken mess who left whilst she was pregnant/
• No she cannot let her son know that his Daddy was a junkie/
• So she uses her last breath to say “Your Daddy was John Wayne”/

• And as she slipped away she told him that he would have been there if he could/
• But it was out of his control/
• And she said when I'm gone you've got to try to grow up to be just like him/
• You've got to be kind and strong/
• You've got to be one of the good guys son 'cause there's too many of the bad ones/

• Jonny's turning eighteen now he feels like he's escaping/
• From the care of state that caged him and the others there who plagued him/
• No one there believed him that his Dad's a cowboy said he's faking/
• And his Daddy's just a vagrant but his belief was not shaken/
• Jonny gets a job and wants to be just like his Dad was/
• Son you've got to be a good guy there's too many of the bad ones/
• So he's kind and strong and silent like the heroes in the westerns/
• All of which attracts attention of the girl who works reception/
• Jonny's very awkward but she's talking to him kindly/
• She reminds him of his mother so he follows her so blindly/
• Friday night she hits the bar and whispers “Jonny boy come find me”/
• So he dresses in his best and steps out thinking of what might be/
• Jonny slowly steps in with his Stetson and his chaps are on/
• Complete with matching pistols but his wishful thoughts don't last that long/
• The locals they start laughing and he sees her as she laughs along/
• Like “Jonny boy's a cowboy though his Daddy was a vagabond/

• And as she laughs and as the good ol' boys in the bar mock Jonny's Stetson and replica pistols/
• He turns and leaves their taunts following him down the street as he walks into the cold night/
• Their laughter ringing in his ears and he goes home alone/

• Jonny wears a Stetson so he's definitely western/
• Though he cannot be a cowboy no it's only an obsession/
• So his girlfriend up and left him 'cause he will not stop obsessing/
• Now he's sat in watching John Wayne drinking whiskey and depression/
• Never been aggressive but his pistol's looking tempting/
• Wears the holster into town and now he's feeling somewhat empty/
• Swears the other men are laughing as he passes with his lasso/
• They drive cars and mock his horses and his Texas ranger tattoos/
• Jonny's never bad news always harmless a bit simple/
• But these people keep on laughing and he's alone with no kin folk/
• So these locals they poke all their fun and make their jokes at Jonny/
• But it's getting to the stage where all these statements are unfunny/
• Jonny goes back home and grabs the gun he bought of E-bay/
• Silver star upon his chest and Stetson/ Classic western cliché/
• Now he rides up to the locals puts his pistols to their heads/
• And rides into the sunset after everyone is dead/

• If you go outside/
• All those friends in your mind/
• Will forget about you/
• We forgot about you/

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