1. She drew out all her money at the Southern Trust Leaving Louisiana for the golden west Down came the tears from her happiness Was going to make some motion pictures out in Holliwood R: Bye bye bye bye, Bye bye bye bye 2. She remembered taking money earnt from gathering crop And buying Johnny's guitar at a broker's shop As long as he would play it by the railroad side He wouldn't get in trouble, he was satisfied But never thought there'd ever come a day like this When she would have to give her son a goodbye kiss R: Bye bye bye bye... 3. She finally got the letter she'd been dreaming of Johnny wrote and told her he had fell in love As soon as he was married he would bring her back And build a mansion for them by the railroad track So every time they heard the locomotive roar They'd be standing and waving in the kitchen door R: Bye bye bye bye...