BYE BYE JOHNNY - CHUCK BERRY

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


Original key = C


CShe (x32010@1)drew out all her money at the Southern Trust

And put her little boy upon a Greyhound bus
   FLeaving (133211@1)Louisiana for the golden west
CDown (x32010@1)came the tears from her happiness
    GHer (320003@1)own little son named Johnny B Goode
             CWas (x32010@1)going to make some motion pictures out in Holliwood


C (x32010@1)              F (133211@1)         CBye (x32010@1)bye bye bye, Bye bye bye bye
G (320003@1)             F (133211@1)              CBye-bye (x32010@1)Johnny, Goodbye Johnny B Goode


CShe (x32010@1)remembered taking money earnt from gathering crop

And buying Johnny's guitar at a broker's shop
   FAs (133211@1)long as he would play it by the railroad side
   CHe (x32010@1)wouldn't get in trouble, he was satisfied
    GBut (320003@1)never thought there'd ever come a day like this
               CWhen (x32010@1)she would have to give her son a goodbye kiss


C (x32010@1)              F (133211@1)         CBye (x32010@1)bye bye bye, Bye bye bye bye
G (320003@1)             F (133211@1)              CBye-bye (x32010@1)Johnny, Goodbye Johnny B Goode


[GUITAR SOLO]

CShe (x32010@1)finally got the letter she'd been dreaming of

Johnny wrote and told her he had fell in love
   FAs (133211@1)soon as he was married he would bring her back
    CAnd (x32010@1)build a mansion for them by the railroad track
   GSo (320003@1)every time they heard the locomotive roar
          CThey'd (x32010@1)be standing and waving in the kitchen door


C (x32010@1)              F (133211@1)         CBye (x32010@1)bye bye bye, Bye bye bye bye
G (320003@1)             F (133211@1)              CBye-bye (x32010@1)Johnny, Goodbye Johnny B Goode


Repeat ad lib to fade


Respect to Chuck
Paul Busby
Manchester, England
buz@freenet.co.uk