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Johnny B Goode

(Chuck Berry)


Copyright Arc Music

Original by Chuck Berry in 1958


Live Recording for RCA - August 21-26, 1969 - The International Hotel - Las Vegas

August 24, Midnight show

XPA5 2314


Overdub session for RCA - September 26, 1969 - RCA Studio A - Nashville

XPA5 2314 - Vocal repair - Guitar solo repair
November 1969 LP RCA LSP 6020 Elvis In Person


RCA studio session - May 15-19, 1971 - RCA's Studio B - Nashville

May 18, 6-9 pm, 10 pm-1-am, 1:30-4:30 am

- Rehearsal incomplete
August 1, 2007 CD FTD 88697 03631-2 I Sing All Kinds - The Nashville 1971 Sessions





Version 1          Version 2          Version 3   

Version 4          Version 5          Version 6   

Version 7          Version 8          Version 9   

Version 10          Version 11   


Well........
Well down in Louisiana close to New Orleans
Back up in the woods among the evergreens
Stood a log cabin made of earth and wood
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, go Johnny go
Go, go Johnny go
Go, go Johnny go
Go, go Johnny go
Go, go Johnny go
Johnny B. Goode


His momma told him one day you will be a man
You will be the leader of a big old band
Many people comin' from a miles around
To hear you playing music when the sun goes down
Maybe one day your name'll be in lights
Saying "Johnny B. Goode Tonight"


* Repeat
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