Georgia Satellites Let It Rock (bye Bye Johnny) Lyrics

Let It Rock (bye Bye Johnny) Lyrics

(Chuck Berry)

 

 Well in the heat of day down in Mobile, Alabama

 I'm workin' on the railroad with a steel drivin hammer

 I gotta get some money buy some brand new shoes

 gotta find somebody take away my blues

 well she don't love me when I'm singin' in the sun

 payday's comin' when the work is all done

 

 Well now late here in the evening when the sun is sinkin low

 all day I've been waitin' for that whistle to blow 

 sitting in a teepee built right on here on the tracks

 rolling them bones until the foreman comes back

 pick up your belongings boys and scattere about

 we've got an off shedule train comin two miles out

 

 everybody's scrambling and a running around

 picking up their money tearing the teepee down

 foreman wants to panic, bout to go insane

 trying to get the workers out the way of the train

 engineer blows the whistle loud and long

 can't stop the train gotta let it roll on

 

     "Bye Bye Johnny"

 Well now she drew out all of the money of Southern Trust

 and put her little Johnny on a Greybound Bus

 Leavin' Louisiana for the golden west

 drowned in the tears from her happiness

 her own little son named Johnny B Goode

 gonna make some motion pictures out in Hollywood

 

 I said bye, bye, bye, bye

 I said bye, bye, bye, bye

 bye bye Johnny, goodbye Johnny B Goode

 

 Well she remembers taking money after gathering crops

 and buying Johnny's guitar at the brokers shop

 as long as he would play it by the railroad site

 he wouldn't get in trouble she was satisfied

 well she never knew there would come a day like this

 when she'd have to give Johnny a good bye kiss

 

 I said bye, bye, bye, bye

 I said bye, bye, bye, bye

 bye bye Johnny, goodbye Johnny B Goode

 

 Well now she finally got the letter she'd been dreaming of

 when Johnny wrote and told her he had done fell in love

 as soon as he was married he'd bring her back

 and build a mansion for her by the railroad trck

 and every time you heard that locomotive roar

 she'd be standing there waiting at the kitchen door

 

 I said bye, bye, bye, bye

 I said bye, bye, bye, bye

 bye bye Johnny, goodbye Johnny B Goode