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