Em               C        G
I was just about nineteen
       C      D         G
When I landed on their shore
                    D          Bm7
With my eyes big as headlights
                       C             D       C
Like the thousands and thousands who came before
                  G
I was going to be something
  Bm7           C          D        G
I smiled at the man scrutinizing my face
     D                    Em       A   Em  A
As I stepped down off the gangway


Em                 C       G
Came down to their city
        C         D            G
Where I worked for many's the year
        D               Bm7
Built a hundred houses
                      C        D         C
Must've pulled half a million pints of beer
             G
Living under suspicion
  Bm7               C          D            G
Putting up with the hatred and fear in their eyes
     D                               Em         C
You can see that your nothing but a murderer
         G                 D                Em        
In their eyes, we're nothing but a bunch of murderers

[Chorus]
Em   C            G                  C   D   G
Hey Johnny, can't wait 'til Saturday night
                    D      Bm7
Got a thirst that's raging
                   C      D        C
Know a place where we can put that right
              G         Bm7
Wash away the confusion
               C       D
Hose down this fire inside
    G
But look out!
     D                           Em        A   Em  A
I'll tear you into pieces if you cross me


Em                         C        G
I'm sick of watching them break up
                C      D          G
Every time some bird brain puts us down
                    D       Bm7
Making jokes on the radio
                C             D       C
Guess it helps them all drown out the sound
                 G
Of the crumbling foundations
 Bm7               C          D      G
Any fool can see the writing on the wall
 D                                     Em       A   Em  A
But they just don't believe that it's happening

Em                         C        G
There's a crowd says I'm alright
           C      D       G
Say they like my turn of phrase
                        D        Bm7
Take me round to their parties
                 C             D       C
Like some dressed up monkey in a cage
               G
And I play my accordion
Bm7               C          D          G
Oh, but when the wine seeps through the facade
  D                           Em         C
It's nothing but the same old story
G                 D                Em   A   
Nothing but the same old story


[Chorus]
Em   C            G                  C   D   G
Hey Johnny, can't wait 'til Saturday night
                    D      Bm7
Got a thirst that's raging
                   C      D        C
Know a place where we can put that right
              G         Bm7
Wash away the confusion
               C       D
Hose down this fire inside
    G
But look out!
     D                           Em        A   Em  A
I'll tear you into pieces if you cross me


Em               C        G
Got a brother in Boston
           C      D          G
Says he'll send me on the fare
                D        Bm7
Just wrote me a letter
                     C             D       C
Making out that he's cleaning up out there
                G         
Two cars in the driveway
Bm7           C          D     G               
Summer house way down on the Cape
D                                     Em       A   Em  A
And I know that he'd fix me up in the morning


Em                C        G
I've been thinking about it
          C      D     G
But it seems so far to go
                  D        Bm7
People say in the winter
               C       D       C
You'd get lost underneath the snow
                               G        
And there's this girl from my home place
Bm7           C            D                   G 
We've been planning to move back and give it a try
D                           Em         C
So I never got around to going
 G                 D                Em    A   Em  A
That's why I never got around to going


[Chorus]
Em   C            G                  C   D   G
Hey Johnny, can't wait 'til Saturday night
                    D      Bm7
Got a thirst that's raging
                   C      D        C
Know a place where we can put that right
              G         Bm7
Wash away the confusion
               C       D
Hose down this fire inside
    G
But look out!
     D                           Em       A   Em  A
I'll tear you into pieces if you cross me