Well, she drew out all her money from the Southern Trust
And put her little boy, hey, on a Greyhound bus
Leavin' 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, hey, 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 up against the drain
With a whole lotta trouble, hey, runnin' through his veins
Bye bye, Johnny, oh, Johnny, bye bye
You didn't have to die, you didn't have to die