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Took a city like New Orleans
To kill a man like Johnny Thunders
A man who died with his guitar in his hands
And all those young girls are cryin', cryin'
"Why, why, why Johnny Thunders?" cryin'
"Why, why, why Johnny Thunders?"
But I say
"Go, go, go Johnny Thunders", I say
"Go, go, go Johnny Thunders", took a
Took a city like New Orleans
To kill a man
Like Johnny
Like Johnny
Thunders
Thunders
And their very next song, it was gonna be a hit
It was gonna be a hit
And their very next song it was gonna be a hit
And all those young girls
That had Johnny's picture up on their bedroom walls
They clipped them out of the magazines
They were cryin'
"Why, why, why Johnny Thunders?", cryin'
"Why, why, why Johnny Thunders?"
But I say something different
I say
"Go, go, go Johnny Thunders", I say
"Go, go, go Johnny Thunders", took a
Took a city like New Orleans
To kill a man
Like Johnny
To kill a man like Johnny Thunders
A man who died with his guitar in his hands
And all those young girls are cryin', cryin'
"Why, why, why Johnny Thunders?" cryin'
"Why, why, why Johnny Thunders?"
But I say
"Go, go, go Johnny Thunders", took a
Took a city like New Orleans
To kill a man
Like Johnny
Like Johnny
Thunders
Thunders
It was gonna be a hit
And their very next song it was gonna be a hit
And all those young girls
That had Johnny's picture up on their bedroom walls
They clipped them out of the magazines
They were cryin'
"Why, why, why Johnny Thunders?"
But I say something different
I say
"Go, go, go Johnny Thunders", took a
Took a city like New Orleans
To kill a man
Like Johnny
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Submitted by
pnkdaffodil On Jan 07, 2002
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i really love this song. hah johnny thunders.
what a weird song
Is this just a story they made up, or is it really about someone who was really actually killed?
Johnny Thunders was the guitarist for the New York Dolls. They split and he became Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers. He was a notorious heroine addict for most of his career. Even though he was clean for a while he was found dead in the St. Peter House in New Orleans because of an overdose, which is what this song is about.
The story was that he tried to score heroine from these guys but they gave him acid instead. There was methadone involved somewhere and blah blah the amount of drugs in his system was allegedly "not fatal" and people typically think there was foul play involved.
The police didn't care enough to investigate because Johnny Thunders was a junkie. But he existed none the less. And kicked ass at that.