Deep down in Louisiana close to 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
He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack
Go sit beneath the tree by the railroad track
Oh, the engineers would see him sitting in the shade
Strumming with the rhythm that the drivers made
People passing by they would stop and say
Oh my, but that little country boy could play
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
To hear you play your music when the sun go down
Maybe someday your name will be in lights
Saying 'Johnny B. Goode Tonight'"
Go, go
Go Johnny go
Go go go, Johnny go
Oh go go, Johnny go
Oh go go, Johnny go
Go, Johnny B. Goode
この曲は、
ニューオーリンズ地域の
半識字の「田舎の少年」
についてであり、
ベリーは、
この曲が部分的に
自伝的であり、
元の歌詞がジョニーを
「色のついた少年」
"colored boy"
と呼んでいたことを
認めたが、
ラジオで再生するために
「田舎の少年」
"country boy"
に変更した。
Johnny B. Goode
Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
Dec 29, 1957
B-side
Around and Around
Released
March 31, 1958
Recorded
January 6, 1958
Studio
Chess, Chicago
Label
Chess
Songwriter
Chuck Berry
Producers
Leonard, Phil Chess
Chuck Berry
with Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
performing "Johnny B. Goode"
at The Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame in 1995 in Cleveland, Ohio.
B-side
Around and Around
They say the joint was rocking
Going 'round and 'round
Yeah, reeling and a rocking
What a crazy sound
Well they never stop a rocking
Till the moon went down
Oh, it sound so sweet
Gotta take me a chance
Rose out of my seat
Just had to dance
Started moving my feet
Well and clapping my hands
Well the joint started rocking
Going 'round and 'round
Yeah reeling and a rocking
What a crazy sound
Well they never stopped rocking
Till the moon went down
Twelve o'clock
Well the place was packed
Front doors was locked
Well the place was packed
When the police knocked
Both doors flew back
But they kept on a-rocking
Going 'round and 'round
Yeah, reeling and a rocking
What a crazy sound
Well they never stopped rocking
Till the moon went down
But they kept on a-rocking
Going 'round and 'round
Yeah, reeling and a rocking
What a crazy sound
Well they never stopped rocking
Till the moon went down
But the joint kept rocking
Going 'round and 'round
Yeah, reeling and a rocking
What a crazy sound
Well they never stopped rocking
Till the moon went down
The Rolling Stones Cover versions
I said the joint was rocking
Uh, going 'round and 'round
Yeah, reeling and a rocking
What a crazy sound
And they never stopped rocking
Till the moon went down
Well it sounds so sweet
I had to take me a chance
Rose out of my seat
I just had to dance
Started moving my feet
Whoa to clapping my hands
I said the joint was a rocking
Going round and round
Yeah, reeling and a rocking
What a crazy sound
And they never stopped rocking
Till the moon went down
Yeah at twelve o'clock
Yeah, the place was packed
Front doors was locked
Yeah the place was packed
And when the police knocked
Those doors flew back
But they kept on rocking
Going round and round
Yeah, reeling and a rocking
What a crazy sound
And they never stopped rocking
Till the moon went down
And they go on rocking
Going round and round
Yeah, reeling and a rocking
What a crazy sound
And they never stopped rocking
Till the moon went down
Well the joint kept rocking
Going round and round
Yeah, reeling and a rocking
What a crazy sound
And they never stopped rocking
Till the moon went down
Well the joint kept rocking
Going round and round
Yeah, reeling and a rocking
What a crazy sound
And they never stopped rocking
Till the moon went down
EP
Five by Five
Released
14 August 1964
Recorded
11 June 1964
Studio
Chess Studios
(Chicago)
Label
Decca
Producer
Andrew Loog Oldham
12 × 5
(US)
Released
17 October 1964
Recorded
25 February, 12
May, 10–11 and 24–26
June, 2 and 28–29
September 1964
Studio
Chess, Chicago, Illinois,
United States and Regent Sound Studios,
London, United Kingdom
Label
London
Producer
Andrew Loog Oldham
