JOHNNY B. GOODE
This is one of the most popular rock songs of all time, NASA put a recording of itn a space capsule as THE
example of American pop music. Biographers take note: Berry grew up on Goode Street in St. Louis: and
he originally wrote "where lived a colored boy," not “country Doy.”"
Words and Music by Chuck Berry
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2. car- ry his gui -tar in a gun-ny
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back up inthe woods a - mong the ev - er = greens,— there
sit be - neath the tree by the rail - road__— track, Old
you will be the lead - er of a big of’ _—_ band
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eers would see him sit - tin’ the shade, —
peo - ple com - in’ from a + round2 =
lived a country boy__._—_named John = ny B. — Goode who
strum- min’ with the rhy - thm that the driv = ers made. When
hear you play your mu - sic when the sun go. down. __
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