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This page contains all the misheard lyrics for Johnny B. Goode that have been submitted to this site and the old collection from inthe80s started in 1996.
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Go, Charlie, go, go, go!
Charlie be good
Go, Johnny, go, go, go!
Johnny B. Goode
Go, Danny, go!
Go, Johnny, go!
Go, daddy, go, go
or
Ho daddy, ho, ho
Go, Johnny, go, go
He used to carry his catarrh in a gunny sack
He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack
He used to carry his guitar and a guy named Jack
or
He used to carry his guitar with a guy named Jack
He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack
He used to carry his guitar and a guy named Zack
He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack
His mother told him someday he would be a man
And he would be the leader of a railroad band.
His mother told him someday he would be a man
And he would be the leader of a big old band.
Johnny be good
Johnny B. Goode
Oh, livin' in the fields, sittin' in the shade,
Strummin' with the rhythm that the drivers made
Ol' engineer see him sittin' in the shade,
Strummin' with the rhythm that the drivers made
There stood a log cabin made o' very thin wood.
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood
There stood a log cabin made of earthen wood
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood