Released as a single, it peaked at number two on Billboard magazine’s Hot R&B Sides chart and number eight on its Hot 100 chart., while My Ding-a-Ling went all the way to #1.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
[A] Deep down in Lousiana close to New Orleans – Way back up in the woods among the evergreens.\u00a0 There [D] stood an old cabin made of earth and wood where [A] lived a country boy named Johnny be Goode.\u00a0 Who [E] never ever learned to read or (D?) write so well, but he could [A] play a guitar just like a ringin’ a bell<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n{ CHORUS }\u00a0 [A] Go go – go Johnny go – go – go Johnny go.\u00a0 [D] <\/strong>go – go Johnny go\u00a0 [A] go – go Johnny [E] go (D?)\u00a0 go Johnny be [A] Goode<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nHe used to [A] carry his guitar in a gunny sack.\u00a0 Sit beneath the tree by the railroad track.\u00a0 The [D] engineer would see him sittin’ in the shade\u00a0 [A] Strummin’ with the rhythm that the drivers made.\u00a0 The [E] people passin’ by they would (D?) stop and say\u00a0 “Oh [A] my that little country boy sure can play.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n{ CHORUS }\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>[ guitar – piano ]<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nHis [A] mother told him someday you will be a man,\u00a0 and you will be the leader of a big old band.\u00a0 [D] People comin here from miles around to [A] hear you play your music when the sun goes down.\u00a0 [E] Someday your name will be (D?) up in lights sayin’ [A] Johnny be Goode tonight.
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n{ CHORUS }\u00a0<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[A] Deep down in Lousiana close to New Orleans – Way back up in the woods among the evergreens.\u00a0 There [D] stood an old cabin made of earth and wood where [A] lived a country boy named Johnny be Goode.\u00a0 Who [E] never ever learned to read or (D?) write … CLICK TO VIEW SONGJohnny B. Goode<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,120,133,126,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}