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Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison

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Album Review

Release date: 30 November 2000

Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

At Folsom Prison: Legacy Edition

“Now, when John comes out, he will say – which will be recorded – ‘Hi there, I’m Johnny Cash’,” instructs MC Hugh Cherry. “When he says that, then you respond. Don’t respond to him walking out… I’ll have my hands up, and you all just follow me, OK?” You’d have thought a 40th anniversary reissue including such preamble might shatter the legend of ‘At Folsom...

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Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison Lyrics

Johnny Cash - Give My Love To Rose Lyrics

I found him by the railroad track this morning
I could see that he was nearly dead
I knelt down beside him and I listened
Just to hear the words the dying fellow said

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Johnny Cash - Joe Bean Lyrics

Last time we were here at Folsom Prison, they were hanging Joe Bean.Is Joe still here...Joe Bean?Hang the son of a bitch anyways, right?

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Johnny Cash - Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart Lyrics

From the back door of your life, you swept me out dear
In the bread line of your dreams, I lost my place
At the table of your love, I got the brush off
At the Indianapolis of your heart, I lost the race

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Johnny Cash - The Wall Lyrics

There is a lot of strange men in cell block ten
But the strangest of them all
Was a friend of mine, who spent his time
Staring at the wall

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Johnny Cash - Send A Picture Of Mother Lyrics

After seven years behind these bars together
I'll miss you more than a brother when you go, when you go
If only I had not tried to escape
They'd barred me with you I know, yes I know

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Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues Lyrics

Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds
I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down
I went right home and I went to bed
I stuck that lovin' 44 beneath my head

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Johnny Cash - Dark As The Dungeon Lyrics

Oh, come all you young fellers, young and so fine
Seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine
It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul
Till the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal

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Johnny Cash - Busted Lyrics

My bills are all due and the babies need shoes
But I'm busted
Cotton is gone down to a quarter a pound
And I'm busted

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Johnny Cash - Legend Of John Henry's Hammer Lyrics

John Henry's pappy woke him up one midnight
He said, "'Fore the sheriff comes I wanna tell you, listen boy"
Said, "Learn to ball a jack, learn to lay a track
Learn to pick and shovel too and take my hammer

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Johnny Cash - Green, Green Grass Of Home Lyrics

The old home town looks the same
As I step down from the train
And there to meet me is my mama and my papa

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Johnny Cash - I Got Stripes Lyrics

On a Monday, I was arrested, uh, huh
On a Tuesday, they locked me in the jail, poor boy
On a Wednesday, my trial was attested
On a Thursday, they said, guilty and the judge's gavel fell

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Johnny Cash - Jackson Lyrics

We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout
We've been talkin' 'bout Jackson, ever since the fire went out
I'm goin' to Jackson, I'm gonna mess around
Yeah, I'm goin' to Jackson, look out Jackson town

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Johnny Cash - Dirty Old Egg-Suckin' Dog Lyrics

Well he's not very handsome to look at
Oh he's shaggy and he eats like a hog
And he's always killin' my chickens
That dirty old egg-suckin' dog

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Johnny Cash - Orange Blossom Special Lyrics

Look a-yonder comin', comin' down that railroad track
Hey, look a-yonder comin', comin' down that railroad track
It's the Orange Blossom Special bringin' my baby back

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Johnny Cash - 25 Minutes To Go Lyrics

Well they're building a gallows outside my cell I've got 25 minutes to go
And the whole town's waitin' just to hear me yell I've got 24 minutes to go
Well they gave me some beans for my last meal I've got 23 minutes to go
But nobody asked me how I feel I've got 22 minutes to go

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Johnny Cash - Long Black Veil Lyrics

Ten years ago on a cold dark night
Someone was killed 'neath the town hall lights
There were few at the scene, but they all agreed
That the slayer who ran, looked a lot like me

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Johnny Cash - I Still Miss Someone Lyrics

At my door the leaves are falling
A cold wild wind will come
Sweethearts walk by together
And I still miss someone

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Johnny Cash - Greystone Chapel Lyrics

Inside the walls of prison my body may be
But my Lord has set my soul free
There's a Greystone chapel here at Folsom
A house of worship in this den of sin

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