She drew out all her money from the Southern Trust

And put her little boy on a Greyhound Bus

Leaving Memphis with a guitar in his hand

On a one-way ticket to the promised land

Hey little girl with the red dress on

There's party tonight down in Memphis down

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

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died



We drove down into Memphis, the sky was hard and black

Up over the ridge came a white Cadillac

They'd drawn out all his money and they laid him in the back

A woman cried from the roadside "Ah he's gone, he's gone"

They found him slumped up against the drain

With a whole lot of trouble running through his veins

Bye-bye Johnny

Johnny bye-bye

You didn't have to die

You didn't have to die