this song is a true story about a crazy girl that stalked johnny, her name was pauline and she "lived" in a treehouse in the back yard of the mental instution in johnny's neighborhood, and one day she showed up at johnny's door, completely naked holding a plastic garbage bag that had a dead fetus in it, and then proceeded to tell him that she gave herself a coat-hanger abortion because she didn't want to have anyone else's child but his. johnny was nither pro or anti abortion he writes lyrics that he knows are going to piss all the right people off.... hence god save the queen, and Anarchy for the U.K., promoting anarchy in the uk at the time was the equivent of putting out a death threat for the president today, and also in 1970's england it was a crime against the crown (federal crime/felony) to make any public statement that was considered "bad-mouthing" or mocking the queen
this song is a true story about a crazy girl that stalked johnny, her name was pauline and she "lived" in a treehouse in the back yard of the mental instution in johnny's neighborhood, and one day she showed up at johnny's door, completely naked holding a plastic garbage bag that had a dead fetus in it, and then proceeded to tell him that she gave herself a coat-hanger abortion because she didn't want to have anyone else's child but his. johnny was nither pro or anti abortion he writes lyrics that he knows are going to piss all the right people off.... hence god save the queen, and Anarchy for the U.K., promoting anarchy in the uk at the time was the equivent of putting out a death threat for the president today, and also in 1970's england it was a crime against the crown (federal crime/felony) to make any public statement that was considered "bad-mouthing" or mocking the queen
@LastCaress - good post - I didn't know that .....
@LastCaress - good post - I didn't know that .....