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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 – Orange Blossom Special
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“Orange Blossom Special” is a standard bluegrass song written in 1938 by Ervin T. Rouse & Gordon Rouse, about the passenger train of the same name. It’s so famous in bluegrass
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Johnny Cash – Orange Blossom Special [Live]
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Hey, look a-yonder comin' / Comin' down that railroad track / Hey, look a-yonder comin' / Comin' down that railroad track / It's that Orange Blossom Special / Bringin' my baby back
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Johnny Cash – (I'm Proud) The Baby Is Mine
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[Verse 1] / Now don't laugh at the condition the lady's in / She soon could wear a cocktail dress again / But we get along without cocktails, mighty fine / This will be our first
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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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The Rouse Brothers – Orange Blossom Special
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[Intro] / (Board!) / *Steam* / (Popcorn, peanuts and goobers / Yes, sir, buy 'em right here on this train / First train goin' south) / [Verse 1] / Look a-yonder comin' / Comin
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Johnny Cash – Wildwood Flower
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I will twine mid my ringlets of raven black hair / The lilies so pale and the roses so fair / And the myrtle so bright with an emerald hue / The pale amaryllis and violets so blue
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Johnny Cash – Amen
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Amen, amen, amen amen amen / Little baby, in the manger, King Jesus / At the temple, there they found him, teaching the elders / Poor Lazarus, didn't bear it, up a walking / Yeah
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Johnny Cash – Engine 143
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[Verse] / Along came the F15 the swiftest on the line / Running o'er the C&O road just twenty minutes behind / Running into Cevile head porters on the line / Receiving their strict
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Johnny Cash – You Wild Colorado
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[Verse 1] / Oh, you wild raging river / Like my woman's lips you lure me / Pied piper of the desert / Roll on to the sea / You're the same at noon or midnight / And I follow where
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Johnny Cash – It Ain't Me Babe
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This is Johnny Cash’s version of a song made famous by Bob Dylan. Check out the annotations on Dylan’s original version here.
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Johnny Cash – Danny Boy
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[Verse] / Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling / From glen to glen, and down the mountain side / The summer's gone, and all the roses fallin' / It's you, it's you must
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Johnny Cash (Ft. June Carter Cash) – When It’s Springtime in Alaska (It’s Forty Below)
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J.Cash’s cover of famous Johnny Horton’s When It’s Springtime In Alaska.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtsHDcxZlx0
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Johnny Cash – All of God’s Children Ain’t Free
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[Verse] / I'd sing more about moral of this land but all God's children aren't free / I'd open up every door I can because all God's children aren't free / I met a beaten broken
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Johnny Cash – The Wall
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Often Johnny Cash sings from the point of view of an inmate, one great example is Folsom Prison Blues. This is another tale of the same kind, about a man who appeared to be strange
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Johnny Cash – Mama, You’ve Been on My Mind
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Many people feel like this is Johnny’s Cash’s song, but in truth, it was written by Bob Dylan. Dylan made several demo recordings of “Mama,” at least four of which appear on the
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Johnny Cash – Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
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This is Johnny Cash’s version of a song made famous by Bob Dylan. Check out the annotations on Dylan’s original version here.
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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 – 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 – 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 – I Got Stripes (At Folsom Prison)
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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 – Folsom Prison Blues (At Folsom Prison)
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[Intro] / "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." / [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
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Johnny Cash – Dirty Old Egg-Suckin' Dog (At Folsom Prison)
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"Well, we would like to -- I'd like to do a couple of love songs here for you now. One -- you know the man's best friend is his dog, if he's got nothing else... And, uh, this song
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Johnny Cash – One Too Many Mornings (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
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[Intro] / Thank you very much, ok, ok, alright, I will do that one for you, first here is a- ok, wha- ok, we'll do those for you right now, here is another Bob Dylan song we
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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 – Green, Green Grass of Home
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[Verse 1] / 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 / Down the road I look, and there runs Mary / Hair of
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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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