Unofficial studio version 2
One, two, three
Well she drew out all her money from the Southern Trust
And put her little boy yeah on a Greyhound bus
Leaving Memphis with a guitar in his hand
On a one-way ticket to the promised land
Hey now little girlie with the red dress on
There's a party tonight way down in Memphis town
I'll be going down there if you need a ride
The man on the radio says Elvis Presley died
As we drove down into Memphis, the sky turned hard and black
Up over the hill came a white Cadillac
They'd drawn out all his money and laid him in the back
A woman cried from the roadside, "Johnny, Johnny, please come back"
Well they found him slumped back against the drain
With a whole lotta trouble, yeah, running through his veins
Bye bye Johnny, oh Johnny bye bye
You didn't have to die, you didn't have to die
The above lyrics are for a studio version of JOHNNY BYE BYE recorded in early 1983 at Thrill Hill West, Springsteen's home studio in Beverly Hills, CA. See official studio version 1 for more details.
This version of JOHNNY BYE BYE was released on The Lost Masters Vol. 16 (Labour Of Love) [track 11] bootleg.
List of available versions of JOHNNY BYE BYE on this website:
JOHNNY BYE BYE [Official studio version 1]