 Genius Meanings
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Johnny Cash – I Got Stripes
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Johnny Cash (Ft. Johnny Cash & Lead Belly) – I Got Stripes (On a Monday)
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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
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Johnny Cash – The Matador
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[Verse 1] / The crowd is waiting for the bullfight / Matador / My final fight the place is packed once more / Anita won't throw me a rose this fight / The one she wears is not for
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Johnny Cash – Red Velvet
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[Verse 1] / Four months ago in April a day-coach she came down / And the dusty autumn winds began to blow / Should have known I couldn't hold her living out so far from town / And
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Johnny Cash – Smiling Bill McCall
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Well, the whole town listened to the radio / For the Smiling Bill McCall Show / Everyone in Nashville / Was listening to Bill / I don't want to be laying in bed / When they
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Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash – Jackson
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Jackson" is a song written in 1963 by Billy Edd Wheeler It is best known from two 1967 releases: as a country hit single by Johnny Cash and June Carter, which reached number two
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Johnny Cash – A Little At A Time
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[Verse 1] / Stop loving me a little at a time, let me lose you a little at a time / Walk away slow like you don't want to go, leave me a little at a time / [Chorus] / For my
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Johnny Cash – Cocaine Blues (At Folsom Prison)
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This recording was made with an audience of inmates for Cash’s live At Folsom Prison record.
Parental Advisory: contains guns, drugs, domestic violence, escaping the law, even the
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Johnny Cash – The Wall (At Folsom Prison)
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There's 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, staring at the wall / As he looked
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Johnny Cash – The Sons Of Katie Elder
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[Verse] / From the four winds we have come Katie Elder / Four brothers on the run Katie Elder / All your little ones have grown and we've reaped what we have sown / Yes we've
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Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash – The Wind Changes
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[Verse 1] / It's not that I don't love you anymore / It's not that I don't want to / It's just that there's a line I have to darw / You've gotta cross it, don't you / It would take
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Johnny Cash – Dark as a Dungeon
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Oh come all you young fellers so young and so fine / Seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine / It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul / Till the stream of your blood runs
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Johnny Cash – What Is Truth
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[Verse 1] / The old man turned off the radio / Said, "Where did all of the old songs go?" / "Kids sure play funny music these days!" / "They play it in the strangest ways." / Said
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Johnny Cash – Send a Picture of Mother
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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
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The Highwaymen – Highwayman
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Have you ever written a song so great that the four greatest Outlaw Country singers of all time named their supergroup after it? No? Well, that’s because you’re not Jimmy Webb.
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Johnny Cash – Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart (At Folsom Prison)
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From the backdoor 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
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Johnny Cash – All Over Again
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[Verse] / Every time I look at you I fall in love / All over again / Every time I think of you it all begins / All over again / [Pre-Chorus] / One little dream at night and I can
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Johnny Cash – Cocaine Blues (live)
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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 / Got
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Johnny Cash – Cocaine Blues (live)
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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 / Got
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Johnny Cash – 25 Minutes to Go (At Folsom Prison)
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Well, they're building a gallows outside my cell / And I've got 25 minutes to go / And the whole town's waiting just to hear me yell / I got 24 minutes to go / Well, they gave me
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Demun Jones – My Name's Demun
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[Verse 1] / Full speed ahead, hammer down I’m comin’ / Mossy oaks drawers and I’m rolling in a Cummins / 8.3 liter to be exact / Totaled one got another man you can’t hold me back
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Johnny Cash – Orange Blossom Special (At Folsom Prison)
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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 / "
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Johnny Cash – I Still Miss Someone (At Folsom Prison)
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"They'll probably take that word out of it..." / At my door the leaves are falling / A cold wild wind will come / Sweethearts walk by together / And I still miss someone / I go out
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Johnny Cash – Greystone Chapel
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"Thank you very much. This next song was written by a man right here in Folsom Prison. And last night was the first time I ever sung this song. Anyway, this song was written by our
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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 – Navajo
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[Verse 1] / I have seen your colors woven in your blankets / I have heard your names on rivers and on towns / I have seen your turqoise on fine fancy ladies / And the Indian sun is
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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 (Ft. June Carter Cash) – Jackson (At Folsom Prison)
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Johnny: "Hey, will you sing a song with me?" / June: "I'd be very pleased to sing a song with you!" / Johnny: "You sure look nice!" / June: "Thank you, I'm - glad to be back in
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Johnny Cash – Send a Picture of Mother (At Folsom Prison)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Johnny Cash – Strawberry Cake
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[Verse] / In New York city just walking the street / Ran out of money had nothing to eat / I stopped at the Plaza, that fancy hotel / Where you can check in if you’re well to do
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Johnny Cash – You Dreamer You
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[Verse] / I dreamed I walked in a field of flowers / Oh, what a dream / The houses all were silver towers / Oh, what a dream / Beside the road an angel sat / I said hello and
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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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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 – Put The Sugar To Bed
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[Verse] / Out on a shrimp boat I just dropped the net / When the wind she come to blowing whizzing bad all to get / I look south east and golly me what I see / A black thundercloud
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Johnny Cash – Locomotive Man
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[Verse 1] / I got a gal in Dallas, I wave at when I go through / I got a gal in Tulsa, that I toot my whistle to / (Say how do) / [Chorus] / I got them all over the land, I'm a
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Johnny Cash – The Long Black Veil (At Folsom Prison)
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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
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Johnny Cash – When the Roses Bloom Again
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In the rattle of the battle, came a whisper soft and low / From a soldier who'd been wounded in the fray / "I am dying, Captain, dying and I pray before I go / You will give your
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Johnny Cash – The Legend Of John Henry's Hammer (At Folsom Prison)
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"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
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Johnny Cash – Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart
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[Verse 1] / From the backdoor 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
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