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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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