A combination of Chuck Berry/Rolling Stones/Status Quo versions
Original key = C
C
She drew out all her money at the Southern Trust
And put her little boy upon a Greyhound bus
F
Leaving Louisiana for the golden west
C
Down came the tears from her happiness
G
Her own little son named Johnny B Goode
C
Was going to make some motion pictures out in Holliwood
C F C
Bye bye bye bye, Bye bye bye bye
G F C
Bye-bye Johnny, Goodbye Johnny B Goode
C
She remembered taking money earnt from gathering crop
And buying Johnny’s guitar at a broker’s shop
F
As long as he would play it by the railroad side
C
He wouldn’t get in trouble, he was satisfied
G
But never thought there’d ever come a day like this
C
When she would have to give her son a goodbye kiss
C F C
Bye bye bye bye, Bye bye bye bye
G F C
Bye-bye Johnny, Goodbye Johnny B Goode
C
She finally got the letter she’d been dreaming of
Johnny wrote and told her he had fell in love
F
As soon as he was married he would bring her back
C
And build a mansion for them by the railroad track
G
So every time they heard the locomotive roar
C
They’d be standing and waving in the kitchen door
C F C
Bye bye bye bye, Bye bye bye bye
G F C
Bye-bye Johnny, Goodbye Johnny B Goode
Repeat ad lib to fade
Respect to Chuck
Paul Busby
Manchester, England
[email protected]
