Medley: Goodnight Sweetheart / Johnny B. Goode / Let It Rock / Rock & Roll Music (Walled Lake Casino, Detroit, October 25, 1963, second set) Songtext
von Chuck Berry

Goodnight sweetheart, it′s time to go
Goodnight sweetheart, it's time to go
Hate to leave you but I really must go
Goodnight sweetheart, goodnight

Bye bye baby, got to go
Time just won′t let us, play no more
I hate to leave you but I really must go
Goodnight sweetheart, goodnight

Bye bye baby, got to go
Time just won't let us, play no more
Hate to leave you but I really must go
Bye bye sweetheart, bye bye

Johnny lose the articles in New Orleans
Way back up in the woods among the evergreens
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode
Who never ever learned to read or write so well
But he could play a guitar just like a ringing a bell


Go go, go Johnny go!
Go, go Johnny go!
Go, go Johnny go!
Go, go Johnny go!
Go, Johnny B. Goode!

Bye bye baby, got to go
Time just won't let us, play no more
Hate to leave you but I really must go
Goodbye, so long, adios

Johnny lose the articles in New Orleans
Back up in the woods among the evergreens
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode
Who never ever learned to read or write so well
But he could play a guitar just like a ringing a bell

Go go, go Johnny go!
Go, go Johnny go!
Go, go Johnny go!
Go, go Johnny go!
Go, Johnny B. Goode!


His mother told him, "Someday you will be a man
And you will be the leader of a big old band
Many people coming from miles around (oh, yeah)
To hear you play your music when the sun go down (oh, yeah)
Maybe someday your name will be in lights
Saying, "Johnny B. Goode tonight"

Go go, go Johnny go! (yeah)
Go, go Johnny go! (yeah)
Go, go Johnny go! (yeah)
Go, go Johnny go! (yeah)
Go, Johnny B. Goode!

Goodnight sweetheart, it′s time to go
Just can′t stand it, say no more
Don't want to leave you but I′d got to go
Goodnight sweetheart, goodnight

Bye bye baby, adio
Au revoir, I'd got to go
Sure don′t want to leave you
But I must go
So long, bye bye, sweetheart

In the heat of the day, down in mobile Alabama
Working on the railroad, with the steel-driving hammer
I gotta make some money, to buy some brand new shoes
Tryin' to find somebody to take away these blues
"She don′t love me", hear them singing in the sun
Payday's coming when my work is all done

Sure enough baby, this time I'm going
Time had slipped up on me now
I hate to leave to you but I′d got to go anyhow
Goodbye sweetheart, goodbye
Goodbye sweetheart

Goodbye sweetheart

Up in the mornin′ and out to school
The teacher is teachin' the golden rule
Five o′clock tonight
You study 'em hard and hopin′ to pass
Workin' your fingers right down to the bone
And the guy behind you won′t leave you alone

Ring ring goes the bell
The cook in the lunchroom's ready to sell
You're lucky if you can find a seat

So long darling, I′m on my way
Time won′t let us stay here
Hate to leave you but I really must go
Goodnight sweetheart, goodnight

One more

Goodnight sweetheart, goodnight
One more
Goodnight sweetheart, goodnight

Chuck Berry