JOHNNY B. GOODE

Johnny B. Goode

Song Information

Original Artist: Chuck Berry
Cover Artist: Brad Holmes
Composer: Qtec
Album: Johnny B. Goode Single (1958)
BPM: 166
Length: 1:32
Movie: Unknown
Genre: Hard Rock
First Music Game Appearance: GUITARFREAKS 3rd MIX
Other Music Game Appearances: None

Lyrics

Lyrics are from the full version of the song. Only the first set of lyrics, as well as the refrain (which is repeated twice), appear in the Guitar Freaks version of the song. Lyrics taken from here: [1]

Deep down 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 ever learned to read or write so well
But he could play the guitar just like a ringing a bell

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
Oh, the engineers would see him sitting in the shade
Strumming with the rhythm that the drivers made
People passing by they would stop and say
Oh my that little country boy could play

Go go
Go Johnny go
Go
Go Johnny go
Go
Go Johnny go
Go
Go Johnny go
Go
Johnny B. Goode

His mother told him "Someday you will be a man,
And you will be the leader of a big old band.
Many people coming from miles around
To hear you play your music when the sun go down
Maybe someday your name will be in lights
Saying Johnny B. Goode tonight."

Go go
Go Johnny go
Go go go Johnny go
Go go go Johnny go
Go go go Johnny go
Go
Johnny B. Goode 

Song Connections/Remixes

• This song later appeared on Chuck Berry's 1959 album, Chuck Berry Is On Top, which was a mixture of his previous singles, as well as new songs.

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