"No Money Down" is a song written and recorded by Chuck Berry in December 1955.
[2] "No Money Down" was first released as a single in January 1956,[1] with "Down Bound Train" on the B-side, reaching number 8 in the Billboard R&B chart.
The song was later included into Chuck Berry's 1957 album After School Session.
"No Money Down" features a repeating stop-time riff similar to the one that had previously appeared in Willie Dixon's "Hoochie Coochie Man", Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man" and Muddy Waters's "Mannish Boy".
[4] It tells a story of a man who enters a Cadillac showroom to trade in his Ford.