Hook: https://suno.com/s/zSUzEA3MmiRH6PNu [Intro] [Instrumental only - no voices] [Eerie Rickenbacker 12-string arpeggios - twangy Telecaster lead motif - ominous Vox Continental organ] [Cm Ab Fm G7] [Cm Ab G7 G7] [Verse 1] [Lead singer - slow, mournful, completely sincere] [Cm] [Bb] They buried Johnny late last June [Ab] [G7] Beneath a crooked silver moon [Cm] [Ab] He swore he'd call me when he could [Fm] [G7] I really thought my Johnny would [Pre-Chorus] [Organ sustains - drums grow quieter] [Fm] [Ab] At midnight I sit all alone [Dm7b5] [G7] And pray beside the telephone [Chorus] [Full band enters - sweeping, tragic girl-group harmonies] [Eb] [Bb] [2 backing singers - sweet, pleading harmonies] Johnny, Johnny, oh Johnny! [Cm] [Ab] [Lead singer - heartbroken] You said you'd call me from beyond the grave! [Fm] [G7] [2 backing singers - more dramatic] Johnny, Johnny, oh Johnny! [Cm] [G7] [Lead singer - wounded disbelief] That's not how a sweetheart ought to behave! [Instrumental turnaround] [Cm Ab G7 G7] [Verse 2] [Return to sparse, ominous arrangement] [Cm] [Bb] I called the operator instead [Ab] [G7] And asked about the newly dead [Cm] [Ab] She said, I'm sorry, darling dear [Fm] [G7] We don't have service way down there! [Chorus] [Full band - increasingly desperate harmonies] [Eb] [Bb] [2 backing singers] Johnny, Johnny, oh Johnny! [Cm] [Ab] [Lead singer] You said you'd call me from beyond the grave! [Fm] [G7] [2 backing singers] Johnny, Johnny, oh Johnny! [Cm] [G7] [Lead singer] That's not how a sweetheart ought to behave! [Bridge] [Sudden dramatic change - radiant E-flat major - organ swells - heavenly girl-group harmonies - soft swaying drums] [Eb] [Cm] Somewhere beyond the moonlit sky [Ab] [Bb] We'll dance together, you and I [Eb] [G7] The angels gather round to stare [Cm] [Bb] As Johnny puts stars in my hair [Bridge Part 2] [Ab to Abm chromatic shift - heavenly music turns ominous] [Ab] [Abm] But all the stars begin to fade [Eb] [C7] And I remember what he said [Dramatically} [Fm] [Db] He promised me one little call [G7] [G7] And I have heard no ring at all! [Instrumental Break] [Back to C minor - twangy, spooky Telecaster motif - 12-string arpeggios - pounding floor toms] [Cm Ab Fm G7] [Cm Ab G7 G7] [Verse 3] [Lead singer - hushed, conspiratorial] [Cm] [Bb] I paid a lady dressed in lace [Ab] [G7] To make him show his ghostly face [Cm] [Ab] She closed her eyes and shook her head [Fm] [G7] And said, He's busy being dead! [Final Chorus] [Full band - extravagantly emotional harmonies - completely sincere] [Eb] [Bb] [2 backing singers] Johnny, Johnny, oh Johnny! [Cm] [Ab] [Lead singer] You said you'd call me from beyond the grave! [Fm] [G7] [2 backing singers - long, sorrowful harmonies] Johnny, Johnny, oh Johnny! [Cm] [G7] [Lead singer] That's not how a sweetheart ought to behave! [Outro] [Return to ominous instrumental motif] [Cm Ab Fm G7] [Cm] [Ab] [G7] [Sudden dead stop - complete silence] [Lead singer - breathless, spoken] Johnny? Oh, Johnny? Honey? [Backing singer - spoken flatly as Johnny's mother] It's Johnny's mother. Did he leave my car keys at your house? [Cm] [Ab] [G7] [One ominous Guitar chord] [Cm] [End] ---------------------------------------------------------------- This song is ©2026 by the account subscriber aka Mariella, all rights reserved. ----------------------------------------------------------------
