"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash. Well, all right!" Well, I taught the weeping willow how to cry And I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky And the tears I cried for that woman are gonna flood you, big river And I'm gonna sit right here until I die I met her accidentally in St. Paul, Minnesota And it tore me up every time I heard her drawl,...Learn More

[Verse 1] I hear the train a comin', it's rolling 'round the bend And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when I'm stuck in Folsom prison, and time keeps draggin' on But that train keeps a rollin' on down to San Antone [Verse 2] When I was just a baby my mama told me, "Son Always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns" But I shot a man...Learn More

Hey, look yonder comin' Comin' down that railroad track Hey, look yonder comin' Comin' down that railroad track It's that Orange Blossom Special Bringin' my baby back "Have to change harmonicas faster than kiss a duck!" Going down to Florida Get some sand in my shoes Or maybe Californ-ee And get some sand in my shoes Ride that Orange Blossom...Learn More

On a Monday I was arrested (Uh-huh) On a Tuesday they locked me in the jail (Oh boy) On a Wednesday, my trial was attested On a Thursday, they said guilty and the judge's gavel fell [Chorus] I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders I got chains, chains around my feet I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders And them chains, them chains,...Learn More

"And Carl Perkins wrote us another song, that tells about the reason for it all. It takes us back home and tells it like it was when I was a little bitty kid. We gathered around the piano, me and little brother would join in, and mama would sing tenor and daddy'd sing bass." I remember when I was a lad Times were hard and things were bad But...Learn More

"Anybody got any special requests for us to do? John Henry? Let me do John Henry..." John Henry's pappy woke him up one midnight He said before the sheriff comes I wanna tell you He said listen boy... Said learn to ball a jack and learn to lay a track Learn to pick and shovel too And take my hammer, it’ll do anything you tell it to John Henry's...Learn More

Love is a burning thing And it makes a fiery ring Bound by wild desire I fell into a ring of fire I fell into a burning ring of fire I went down, down, down and the flames went higher And it burns, burns, burns, the ring of fire The ring of fire I fell into a burning ring of fire I went down, down, down and the flames went higher And it burns,...Learn More

The crowd is waiting for the bullfight Matador My final fight the place is packed once more But Anita won't throw me a rose this fight The one she wears is not for me tonight She's watching now with her new love I know Walk proud and slow Be strong and sure give the crowd a show They want blood you know! You're still their idol as you were...Learn More

Now Uncle Bill was my Mothers Brother, a tall lanky man But somewhere back in Uncle Bill's life, he took to sniffin' cocaine I'd find him out in the back yard, sittin' against a tree His eyes bugged out in a cocaine stare and his mind in a cocaine dream Well one fall day when Uncle Bill was having a cocaine fit He said "Louise this coke's no good...Learn More

(Intro) 1. I got rid of the shackles that bound me and the guards that were always around me There were tears on the mail Mother wrote me in jail, but I'm free from the chain gang now 2. Back home, I was known and respected. Then, one day, I was wrongly suspected. So, they put me in chains in a cold, freezin' rain. But I'm free from the chain gang...Learn More

"Here it is again, "San Quentin" just for you!" [Verse 1] San Quentin, you've been livin' hell to me You've guarded me since nineteen sixty three I've seen 'em come and go and I've seen them die And long ago I stopped asking why [Verse 2] San Quentin, I hate every inch of you You've cut me and you've scarred me through and through And I'll walk...Learn More

I'll have to hap a freight train I rather rails from where I am To the golf of Mexico, the Muscle Shoals Alabama. (Name of a state ) A felon Benton(name of a village)grave,condemned to walk a branded nam.(It means dying in war) Thirty years of hard time, they cut you loose and set you free There is bond to be a price for, every promise you don't...Learn More