 Genius Lyrics
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Johnny Cash – A Boy Named Sue
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While Johnny Cash made this song famous when he recorded it live during his concert at San Quentin, he didn’t write it.
The author, famed musician, poet and raconteur Shel
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Upchurch – Johnny Cash
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[Intro] / Let the BandPlay / [Chorus] / Johnny Cash, black on black / Johnny Cash, black on black / Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash, black on black / Johnny Cash, black on
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Johnny Cash (Ft. Nick Cave) – Cindy
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[Verse 1: Johnny Cash] / Well, I wish I was an apple hanging on a tree / And every time my Cindy passed, take a little bite of me / [Chorus: Johnny Cash & Nick Cave] / Get along
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Johnny Cash – San Quentin
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Sixth track from Johnny Cash’s album At San Quentin. At San Quentin is the 31st overall album by Johnny Cash recorded live at San Quentin State Prison on February 24, 1969 and
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Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson (Ft. Bobby Bare) – Missing Ol' Johnny Cash
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Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, longtime friends who famously collaborated on Pancho and Lefty in 1983, pay tribute to their friend Johnny Cash in this talking blues.
Some video
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Johnny Cash – God's Gonna Cut You Down
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“God’s Gonna Cut You Down” is Johnny Cash’s version of a traditional folk song, also known as “Run On” or “Run On for a Long Time”.
The song is about how we all will come before
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Johnny Cash – Hurt
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This song, originally written and performed by Nine Inch Nails, is of disputed meaning: is it about self harm, doing heroin, or both? Either way, no matter if it reflects Cash’s
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Wage War – Johnny Cash
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[Intro] / Let me tell you the saddest story / Love lost, left broken and empty / Put my heart in the hands of another / Set a fire to the past and watched me burn / [Verse 1
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Johnny Cash – Beans for Breakfast
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[Verse 1] / I couldn't hear you for the TV / I didn't know you said goodbye / I saw your cancelled check for the airfare / Didn't know flying got so high / [Chorus] / Beans for
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Alabama 3 – Hello... I'm Johnny Cash
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[Intro] / What's your name? / What's your name? / [Verse 1] / My daddy, he was a gambler / Abandoned mamma, when I was four / All he left us was his old gramophone player / His 45
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The Blackeyed Susans – Smokin' Johnny Cash
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Well, I stepped inside my shadow, traced my every step / I travelled back in time, so I could change what happened next / Well, I wrote a new beginning and I moved the pieces round
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Johnny Cash – Desperado
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A cover of the Eagles Song. Don Henley, who sings on the Eagles version and is one of the writers of the song, provides backup vocals on this cover version. A number of artists
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Johnny Cash – Ring of Fire
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Johnny Cash’s soon-to-be-second-wife June Carter wrote “Ring of Fire” in 1963 with Merle Kilgore to express the experience of falling in love with the married Man in Black. Cash
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Johnny Cash – I Hung My Head
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A Johnny Cash’s cover of Sting’s hit “I Hung My Head”, off American IV.
American IV: The Man Comes Around is the last studio album released by Cash when he was still alive.
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Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues
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Perhaps more than any other song, “Folsom Prison Blues” cemented Johnny Cash’s status as the outlaw country archetype. Although he never actually did time in the California prison
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Gvllow – Johnny Cash
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[Intro] / Ri-Ridin all black bitch I'm Johnny Cash / Ring of fire, burn it down, when I strike the match / Blade hot / Bodies drop / Fuck with a scumbag, Gvllow gunnin' for the
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Johnny Cash – I've Been Everywhere
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The song was written in 1959 by Australian songwriter Geoff Mack using Australian place names. It was later adapted using North and South American place names by Hank Snow in 1962
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Sons And Daughters – Johnny Cash
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[Verse] / You began a search / I know many have tried / Not a blind man to guide you / For years let fate decide / So swallowed and followed and played through start to end / With
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RAC (Ft. Scavenger Hunt) – Johnny Cash
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[Verse 1] / "Never again," that was what you said / Because you loved a girl and she wrecked your head / You loved a girl and she left you dead / Cheap wine / Watching VHS
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Kid Rock – Johnny Cash
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“Johnny Cash” by Kid Rock appears on his 2015 album, “First Kiss”.
This is a love song done in heartland rock. Though not referenced directly, the imagery comes from the
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Johnny Cash – So Doggone Lonesome
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[Verse 1] / I do my best to hide this lowdown feeling / I try to make believe there's nothing wrong / But they're always asking me about you, darling / And it hurts me so to tell '
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Johnny Cash – Hey Good Lookin'
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Cover of the Hank Williams classic.
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Johnny Cash – Without Love
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[Verse] / Without love, I am half human / Without love, I'm all machine / Without love, there's nothing doing / I will die without love / Without love, I am an island all by myself
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Johnny Cash – Blue Christmas
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[Intro] / I'll have a blue blue Christmas / [Pre-Chorus] / I'll have a blue blue Christmas without you / I'll be so blue thinking about you / Decorations of red, on a green
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The String Cheese Incident – Johnny Cash
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Drive that train / Drive that train / Drive that train on down the track / Drive that train / Drive that train on down the track / Johnny Cash is on that train / And he ain't never
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Johnny Cash – Hey Porter
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[Verse 1] / Hey porter, hey porter! / Would you tell me the time? / How much longer will it be 'til we cross / That Mason-Dixon Line? / At daylight, would ya tell that engineer
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Johnny Cash – W-O-M-A-N
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[Verse] / I just want to tell you baby, if I can I need my W-O-M-A-N / A M-A-N needs a W-O for love or dirty boogie or the do-se-do / And the F-E-M-A-L-E can turn a B-O-Y into a M-
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Johnny Cash – Belshazzar
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[Verse 1] / Well the Bible tells about a man / Who ruled Babylon and all its land / Around the city he built a wall / And declared that Babylon would never fall / He had concubines
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Johnny Cash – Daddy
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His deeds were never published for the public / The things he did were never done for show / His name was never printed in the paper / Until about two days ago / He only filed a
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Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash – You'll Be Alright
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[Verse 1: Johnny Cash] / Well, I see you lost your honey bee / I know how you must be feeling now / You feel sad, sad but, boy, it ain't that bad / [Refrain: Johnny Cash & June
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Johnny Cash – Bad News
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[Intro] / Ha ha ha, Come on, bad news, ha ha / [Verse 1] / Well, bad news travels like wild fire / Good news travels slow / They all call me Wildfire, ha ha / 'cause everybody
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Johnny Cash – Wanted Man
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In the tradition of “This Land Is Your Land”, this song sends a message about America by applying a simple motif to a string of diverse American locations. Wanted Man has a much
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Johnny Cash – The Long Black Veil
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“The Long Black Veil” is a macabre folk song written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilken in 1959. Originally performed by Lefty Frizzell, the song has been covered by so many
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Johnny Cash – Ballad of a Teenage Queen
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Ballad of a Teenage Queen, a song written by Jack Clement and recorded by Johnny Cash for his 1958 album Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous, hit number one on the US Country
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Johnny Cash – My Treasure
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[Verse] / I saved a lot of money my fortune was untold / And like a fool I idealized my silver and my gold / My earthly treasure's mounted but when I counted through / I realized
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Johnny Cash – Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
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“Sunday Morning Coming Down” appears on Cash’s 1970 album, The Johnny Cash Show, recorded live at the Grand Ole Opry.
The song was a number one country hit on the Billboard
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Johnny Cash – I Still Miss Someone
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“I Still Miss Someone” was first released in 1958 on the B-Side of Cash’s “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town” 7" single. Cash co-wrote it with his brother, Roy Cash Jr.
The song became
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Johnny Cash – Cocaine Blues
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Early one morning while making the rounds / I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down / Went right home and I went to bed / I stuck that loving 44 beneath my head / Got up
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Johnny Cash – Train of Love
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[Verse 1] / Train of love's a-coming, big black wheels a-humming / People waiting at the station, happy hearts are drumming / Trainman, tell me maybe, ain't you got my baby
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Jason Aldean – Johnny Cash
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[Intro] / Whatcha got / [Verse 1] / Quit my job, flipped off the boss, took my name off the payroll, screw ya man / Picked up my cell, rang my baby's bell, said I'm three miles
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Johnny Cash – Lady
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[Verse 1] / Lady your arms are always warm and your bed was always ready when I came / Lady in the middle of the night / You would open up when you'd hear me call your name / And
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Johnny Cash – Paradise
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[Verse 1] / When I was a child my family would travel / Back to Western Kentucky where my parents were born / To a backward old town that I often remembered / So many times that my
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Johnny Cash – Delia’s Gone (Mono)
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An American Murder Ballad.
Cash recorded several versions over his lifetime.
It is the nature of traditional ballads that the lyrics can change each time they are sung, provided
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Johnny Cash – Give My Love to Rose
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Although the song originally appeared on Johnny Cash Sings Hank Williams, it is in fact, a Johnny Cash original.
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Johnny Cash – Redemption Day
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A cover of the 1996 Sheryl Crow original, Cash’s Redemption Day cover is one of the 60+ songs he recorded in the months leading up to his death – and like so many of his cover
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Johnny Cash – The Beast in Me
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“The Beast in Me” is the third track on Johnny Cash’s 1994 album, American Recordings.
This song was written by Nick Lowe, Cash’s stepson-in-law, before Cash featured it on
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Johnny Cash – Pocahontas
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Aurora borealis / The icy sky at night / Paddles cut the water / In a long and hurried flight / From the white man / To the fields of green / And the homeland / We've never seen
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Johnny Cash – There You Go
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[Intro] / You're gonna break another heart, you're gonna tell another lie / [Verse 1] / Well, here I am and there you go, you're gone again / I know you're gonna be the way you've
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