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This song was first released on the john denver album. it is the only album it has been released on. |
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Way down in louisiana close to new orleans |
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Way back up in the woods among the evergreens |
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There stood a log cabin mad of earth and wood |
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Where lived a country boy name of johnny b. goode |
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He never ever learned to read or write so well |
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But he could play a guitar just like a-ringin' a bell |
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Go, go, go johnny go |
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Go, go johnny go |
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Go, go johnny go |
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Go, go johnny go |
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Go johnny b. goode |
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He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack |
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Go sit beneath the tree by the railroad track |
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The engineers would see him sittin' in the shade |
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Strummin' to the rhythm that the drivers made |
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People passing by would they would stop and say |
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Oh my but that little country boy can play |
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Go, go, go johnny go |
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Go, go johnny go |
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Go, go, go johnny go |
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Go, go, go johnny go |
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Go, go johnny b. goode |
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Well his mama told him some day you will be a man |
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You will be the leader of a big old band |
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Many people comin' from miles around |
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Just to hear you play your music till the sun go down |
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Maybe some day your name will be in lights |
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Sayin' johnny b. goode tonight |
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Go, go, go, go, go johnny go |
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Go, go johnny go |
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Go, go, go johnny go |
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Go, go johnny go |
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Go, go johnny b. goode |
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Words and music by chuck berry |
