Johnny Cash - FOLSOM PRISON BLUES lyrics

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I hear the train a comin' it's rollin 'round the bend and I a'int seen the sunshine since I don't know when. I'm stuck in Folsom Prison, and time keeps draggin' on. But that train keeps a movin' on down to-San-An-Tone

When I was just a baby my mame 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 heat the whistle blowin' I hang my head and cry.*I bet there's rich folks eatin in a fancy dinin car they're probably drinkin coffee and smokin big cigars well i know i had it come i know i can't be free but those people keep a movin and thats 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.

Thanks to 3RD gear for correcting these lyrics