Johnny Bye-Bye lyrics

Song information

Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Album: Tracks

Lyrics

She drew out all her money from the southern trust
And put her little boy on a greyhound bus
Leaving memphis with a guitar in his hand
On a one-way ticket to the promised land
Hey little girl with the red dress on
There's party tonight down in memphis down
I'll be going down there if you need a ride
The man on the radio says elvis presley's died

We drove down into memphis, the sky was hard and black
Up over the ridge came a white cadillac
They'd drawn out all his money and they laid him in the back
A woman cried from the roadside "ah he's gone, he's gone"
They found him slumped up against the drain
With a whole lot of trouble running through his veins
Bye-bye johnny
Johnny bye-bye
You didn't have to die

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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