Johnny B.

Goode
Words & Music by Chuck Berry

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down in Lou’ si - an - a close to New Or - leans, way back up in the woods a - mong the
(Verses 2 & 3 see block lyrics)

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e - ver greens, there stood a log cab - in made of earth and wood, where

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lived a coun try boy named John ny B. Goode who ne - ver e - ver learned to read or

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write so well, but he could play a gui - tar just like a ring in’ a bell. Go! Go!

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—— Go, John ny, go go! Go!

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John ny, go go! Go, John ny, go go!

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Go John ny, go go! John ny B. Goode.

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3. His ——

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Verse 2
He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack
Go sit beneath the tree by the railroad track
Old engineers would see him sittin’ in the shade
Strummin’ with the rhythm that the drivers made
The people passin’ by they would stop and say
“Oh my, but that little country boy could play.”

Verse 3
His mother told him “Someday you will be a man
And you will be the leader of a big ol’ band”
Many people comin’ from miles around
Will hear you play your music when the sun go down
Maybe someday your name will be in lights
Sayin’, “Johnny B. Goode tonight”.

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