Johnny Bye-Bye lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Well, she drew out all her money from the Southern Trust

And put her little boy on the Greyhound bus

Leaving Memphis with a guitar in his hand

With a one-way ticket to the promised land

Hey, little girl with the red dress on

There's party, tonight, down in Memphis town

I'll be going down there if you need a ride

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died

We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black

Up over the ridge came a white Cadillac

They drawed out all his money, and they laid him in the back

A woman cried from the roadside: Oh, he's gone, he's gone

They found him slumped up against the drain

With a whole lotta trouble running through his veins

Bye-bye, Johnny

Johnny, bye-bye

You didn't have to die

You didn't have to die