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
Hay little girl, with the red dress on
There's a party tonight down in Memphis town
I'll be goin' 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 runnin' through his veins
Bye Bye Johnny
Johnny Bye Bye
You didn't have to die
You didn't have to die