Johnny B. Goode

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab

  6    6   6  6  6   6 5  
Deep down in Lou'si-an-a 
 -5    5  -5 5    6   
Close to New Or-leans 
 6    6   6  6  6    6 
Way back up in the woods 
 5 -5  5  -5  5    4   
Among the ev-er greens 
  6     6    5  -5 -5  5  
There stood an old cabin 
 -5   5   -5   5    6 
Made of earth and wood 
  6     6   6  6   5   6 
Where lived a country boy 
  -5    5   -5  5 4   4  
Named ~~~~ Johnny B Goode 
  6    6 5  -5 5    -5 
Who'd never ever learned 
 5  -5   5   -5   5   6    
To read or write so well 
 4   5   -5    6  6  6  6 
But he could play a guitar 
  5   -5  5  -5  5  4  4 
Just like a ringin' a bell 


 6  6   6  -5  5  6  6
GO GO, GO JOHNNY GO GO
 6  -5  5  6  6  6  -5  5  6   6
GO JOHNNY GO GO, GO JOHNNY GO GO
 6  -5  5  6  6  -5  5  4   4
GO JOHNNY GO GO, JOHNNY B GOODE


6   6   6    6    6   6  5 
He used to carry his guitar
-5 5 -5  5  6    
In a gunny sack 
6    6  6   6   6    6
Go sit beneath the tree 
 5 -5   5   -5    4  
By the railroad track 
 6   6 6 5   -5  -5   5 
O'l engineer in the train 
-5  5   -5  5    6
Sittin' in the shade 
 6   6    6    6   5  6
Strummin with the rythem 
 -5   5   -5  5    4    
That the drivers made 
 6   6  5  -5  5   -5
The people passin' by 
  5   -5    5   -5   5     
They would stop and say 
4  5   -5   6    6  6  
Oh my, but that little 
 5  -5   5    -5    5  
Country boy could play 


 6  6   6  -5  5  6  6
GO GO, GO JOHNNY GO GO
 6  -5  5  6  6  6  -5  5  6   6
GO JOHNNY GO GO, GO JOHNNY GO GO
 6  -5  5  6  6  -5  5  4   4
GO JOHNNY GO GO, JOHNNY B GOODE

 6   6  6   6    6   
His mother told him 
  -5  5   -5  5   -5 5  4 
"Someday you will be a man 
 6   6   6   6   6   6  5
And you will be the leader 
5 -5  5   -5   5      
Of a big old band 
 6    6  5  -5 -5  
Many people comin'
 -5   5 -5  5   6
From miles around 
6   6    6    6   5   -5  6
To hear you play your music 
 -5   5  -5    5    4   
'Til the sun goes down 
 6  6  5  -5   5   -5  5   -5   5  -5   
Maybe someday your name'll be in lights 
4  5 -5   6  6  6   6    5  -5  
A sayin' Johnny B Goode tonght"


 6  6   6  -5  5  6  
GO GO, GO JOHNNY GO, 
 6 6  6  -5  5  6    6  6  6  -5  5  6  
GO GO GO JOHNNY GO, GO GO GO JOHNNY GO, 
 6  6  6  -5  5  6  6  -5  5  4   4
GO GO GO JOHNNY GO, GO JOHNNY B GOODE

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