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Song title: Johnny bye bye (Original)

(Berry) by Chuck Berry

Johnny bye bye (Original)

She drew out all her money out of the Southern Trust
And put her little boy aboard a Greyhound Bus
Leaving Louisiana for the Golden West
Down came the tears from her happiness
Her own little son name ‘o Johnny B. Goode
Was gonna make some motion pictures out in Hollywood

Bye, bye, bye, bye
Bye, bye, bye, bye
Bye bye Johnny
Good bye Johnny B. Goode

She remembered taking money out from gathering crop
And buying Johnny’s guitar at a broker shop
As long as he would play it by the railroad side
And wouldn’t get in trouble he was satisfied
But never thought that there would come a day like this
When she would have to give her son a goodby kiss

Going
Bye, bye, bye, bye
Bye, bye, bye, bye
Bye bye Johnny
Good bye Johnny B. Goode

She finally got the letter she was dreaming of
Johnny wrote and told her he had fell in love
As soon as he was married he would bring her back
And build a mansion for ‘em by the railroad track
So every time they heard the locomotive roar
They’d be a’ standin’, a’ wavin’ by the kitchen door

Howling
Bye, bye, bye, bye
Bye, bye, bye, bye
Bye bye Johnny
Good bye Johnny B. Goode

Notes: This is the plain Chuck Berry version. First verse is very similar to one of the Bruce versions (Johnny bye bye) (both the early and the later one).


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This song has never been published on any official release.

Very few performances of this songs are known (to me, at least!):
 - 17/07/1982 Big Man's West, Red Bank,NJ ,USA during the 1982-84 "NJ clubs" Tour

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Unique known live performance: 17/07/1982 Big Man's West, Red Bank,NJ ,USA

Song 'history':


One only performance during the 1982-1984 period, during which Bruce played, with various small groups or guesting, in a number of bars and small clubs of the New Jersey area (17/07/1982 Big Man's West, Red Bank,NJ ,USA)
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