Johnny Lo, he was an Anchorage Joe, and he'd been going out to school in L.A. Peggy Sue, she was a college kid too, and she had driven out from Chesapeake Bay And they were young in love, they fell the day they met And things with them were as good as things get
Johnny Lo, he had some money he owed, and dodging creditors is always a bitch Johnny knew that what he needed to do was suck it up and go back home for the fish So Johnny took a plane and got back on that boat And all the way the lump was in his throat
Peggy Sue was pretty broken up too, she spent the weekend watching movies in bed She would cry at unpredictable times and either miss her man or wish he was dead But she would never stray, she wanted it that way At least that's what she told herself that day
Adam Tan, he was a triangle man who didn't know what he was getting into Peggy Sue had nothing better to do than get some tanning done and work at the zoo There wasn't any plan, but then there never is She had her own world and he had his
Billie Jean, she was a fisherman's dream as she was shouting orders down at her men Johnny Lo, he had a season to go before he'd get to see his lover again And Billie had a thing for quiet men like John She hoped the way she smiled would turn him on
Adam Tan, he drove a purple sedan and liked to take it out whenever he could Peggy Sue, she drove a purple car too and liked to drive it out in West Hollywood And so it came to be that one day they should meet And share a cigarette out in the street
Billie Jean had found the man of her dreams and she was trying to line him up in her sights Johnny Lo knew she was ready to go but not with Peggy Sue, it didn't feel right And so he'd look away and try to act polite And hate himself for wanting her at night
Peggy Sue, she didn't know what to do, except that standing by her man would be tough Adam Tan was never part of the plan, but Johnny's photograph was never enough And isn't that the way that these things always start People fall in fast and plans fall apart
Johnny woke and felt the cigarette smoke like it was oozing out of every pore Billie Jean, yeah she was deep in a dream as Johnny dressed and made his way to the door The cold Alaskan air, it cleared his guilty head And told him he and Peggy would be wed
Peggy Sue, yeah she was waking up too inside a tent next to a purple sedan She felt good but didn't know if she should as Adam stirred against the palm of her hand And isn't that the way that these things always end She hoped that she and John could still be friends