Bye Bye Johnny

BYE BYE JOHNNY - CHUCK BERRY

 

A combination of Chuck Berry/Rolling Stones/Status Quo versions

 

 

Original key = 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

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

 

 

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

 

 

[GUITAR SOLO]

 

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

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