Well, 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 a 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 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, "Oh, he´s gone, he´s gone" They found him slumped up against the drain With a whole lotta troubles running through his veins Bye-bye, Johnny, Johnny, bye-bye