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School yard Johnny
Hard eyes
Broken nose
Who I fought one day
Because there was nothing to say

Remember that tree we climbed in the school grounds
High above
Sharing a fag

Go-od wind blue
Go-od tree brown

Across the way
The church
Where they kept God locked in
The house where smelly Billy died
Beaten black and blue
Everyday
'Cause he wet the bed

The playing fields
The big H posts
Another goal

The common houses
Red slated roofs
Horizontal and diagonally shaped

Turquoise colour cups and plates
Break the silence
Where we all sat around in oblivious
Muted speech

The white coats
All stiff with men and women

The black habit bothers
Their rosary beads
Dangled
Clicking one another as they walked about
The jailers of the go-od church

The gates drawn back
Like the curtains at night to keep out the dark

What did we say that day
Johnny
High above in that
Blue wind
Colour brown tree
Where all things were go-od Johnny
Sharing a fag
High above the mad world
Johnny.