Johnny Bye-Bye

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