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Folsom Prison Blues
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One of my favourite Johnny Cash songs.
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Hey there folks, this is Bob T. Guevara, making old and new music for all of you. Political, poetical, sensitive, funny, and whatever else you like.
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Genre
Country • Country and Western
Charts
#8,009 today Peak #216
#513 in subgenre Peak #17
Author
Johnny Cash
Rights
1955 Sun Entertainment Corp.
Uploaded
December 30, 2004
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MP3 1.9 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
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Here's one of my favourite Johnny Cash songs.
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I hear the train a-comin', it's rollin' 'round the bend, And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when, I'm stuck at Folsom Prison and time keeps draggin' on. But that train keeps a-rollin' on down to San Antone. When I was just a baby, my momma told me, "Son, Always be a good boy; don't ever play with guns." But I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. When I hear that whistle blowin', I hang my head and cry. I bet there's rich folk eatin'in a fancy dining car. They're prob'ly drinkin' coffee and smokin' big cigars, But I know I had it comin', I know I can't be free, But those people keep a-movin', and that's what tortures me. Well if they freed me from this prison, if that railroad train was mine, I bet I'd move it all a little farther down the line, Far from Folsom Prison, that's where I want to stay, And I'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away.
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