Greatful Dead Johnny B Goode Lyrics

Johnny B Goode Lyrics

Deep down in Louisiana, close to New Orleans

Way back up in the woods among the evergreens

There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood

Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode

Who never learned to read or write so well

But he could play guitar just like a-ringin' a bell



Chorus

Go, go

Go Johnny, go, go

Go Johnny, go, go

Go Johnny, go, go

Go Johnny, go, go

Johnny B. Goode



He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack

Go sit beneath the tree by the railroad track

Old engineers would see him sitting in the shade

Strumming with the rhythm that the drivers made

When people passed him by, they would stop and say

Oh my, but that little country boy could play



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His mother told him someday you will be a man

And you will be the leader of a big ol' band

Many people coming from miles around

Will hear you play your music when the sun goes down

Maybe one day your name will be in lights

Sayin' Johnny B. Goode tonight



[chorus]