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Deep down Louisiana close to New Orleans

 Way back up in the woods among the ever greens

 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, Johnny, go! Go!

Go, Johnny, go! Go!

Go, Johnny, go! Go! Johnny B. Goode

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