By Johnny Cash A hundred and eighty were challenged by Travis to die By the line that he drew with his sword when the battle was nigh Any man that would fight ...

Chorus: I wish I had of known you when you were a little younger 'round me you might have learned a thing or two If I'd had known you longer you might be a litt...

The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars Restless by day And by night rants and rages at the stars God help the beast in me The beast in me Has had to...

I live in the cemetery ol' caretaker they call me In the wintertime I rake the leaves and in the summer I cut the weeds When a funeral comes the people cry and ...

(Praises sing to Christ the King and peace to men on earth) On Christmas Eve I dreamed I traveled all around the earth And in my dream I saw and heard the ways ...

A little child on a sickbed lay, And death was very near. He was the pride and the only child of a railroad engineer. His duty had called him from those he lo...

I heard the laughter at the depot But my tears fell like the rain When I saw them place that long white casket In the baggage coach of the evening train The ba...

The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave To the night and the empty skies my l...

Written by Arthur Smith Refrain: They wouldn't bend They held on to the will of God so we are told They wouldn't bow They would not bow their knees to Idols ma...

Jesus our King Kind and good Was humbly born In a stable of wood And the lowly beasts Around Him stood Jesus our King Kind and good "I", said the donkey Shaggy...

What a beautiful thought I am thinking concerning the great speckled bird And to know that my name is recorded on the pages of God's holy word Desiring to lower...

(Jean Ritchie) When I was a curly headed baby My daddy sat me down on his knee He said, "son, go to school and get your letters, Don't you be a dusty coal mine...

Johnny Henry's pappy woke him up one midnight He said "Before the sheriff comes I wanna tell you," Said "Listen boy Learn to hoist a jack and learn to lay a tra...

Ten years ago on a cold dark night, there was someone killed beneath the town hall lights There were people at the scene and they all agreed, that the slayer wh...

There's a man going around taking names And he decides who to free and who to blame Everybody won't be treated all the same There'll be a golden ladder reaching...

Will we get cold and hungry will times be very bad When we're needin' bread and meat where we gonna get it dad We'll get it from the man in the house on the hil...

There once was a man who just couldn't cry He hadn't cried for years and for years Napalmed babies and the movie love story For instance could not produce tears...

The crowd is waiting For the bullfight matador My final fight The place is packed once more But Anita won't Throw me a rose this fight The one she wears Is not...

Harry Truman was our president A coke an burger cost you thirty cents I was still in love with Mavis Brown On the night Hank Williams came to town "I Love Lucy...

Well it was a time on earth when in the books of heaven An old account was standing for sins yet unforgiven My name was at the top and many things below But I w...

On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross the emblem of suffering and shame And I love that old cross where the dearest and best For a word of lost sinners w...

There once was a musical troupe A pickin' singin' folk group They sang the mountain ballads And the folk songs of our land They were long on musical ability Fo...

Written by A Fenady & R Markowitz Johnny Yuma was a rebel He roamed through the west Did Johnny Yuma, the rebel He wandered alone He got fightin' mad This reb...

WRITER BILLY EDD WHEELER, JED PETERS (Spoken) He rode easy in the saddle He was tall and lean, and at first you'd a-thought nothing but a streak of mean could ...

(Feat Tom Petty) (Merle Haggard) I was born the running kind, leaving always on my mind Home was never home to me at anytime Every front door found me open I ...

Sequoia's winters were sixteen silent tongue spirit clean He walked at his father's side Across the smoking battle ground where red and white men lay all around...

Moses led God's children out to find the promised land And on the way he'd stop each day and look to Heaven and Asked God for help as he could not withstand the...

Ii Ii ou Ii Ii Ii ou Ii Ii ou Oh wagon trains rollin' along they fade from my visions and in time will be gone I see an eagle in space my people will follow oh ...

There's A lot of strange men, in cell block ten But the strangest of em' all Was a friend of mine who speant his time Starin' at the wall Starin' at the wall A...

THE WANDERER - U2 with Johnny Cash (U2/Bono) written Gordan Lightfoot ?? I went out walking through the streets paved with gold lifted some stones saw the skin...

You've cut out your dancing' And you never see a show Friends drop by to pick you up And you hardly ever go It seems your head in in the clouds above You've got...

I saw a way worn traveler in tattered garments clad And struggling up the mountain, it seemed that he was sad His back was laden heavy, his strength was almost ...

Bet it ain't raining back home Bet you sister's still on the phone Bet Momma's in the kitchen, cooking fried chicken Wishing that I hadn't done wrong Momma, do...

You're gonna break another heart, you're gonna tell another lie Well here I am and there you go, you're gone again I know you're gonna be the way you've always ...

These hands aren't the hands of a gentleman these hands are calloused and old These hands raised a family these hands built a home Now these hands raised to pra...

These things shall pass and some great morning We'll look back and smile at heartaches we have known So don't forget when shadows gather The Lord our God is sti...

Bad luck wind been blowing at my back I was born to bring trouble to wherever I'm at Got the number thirteen tattooed on my neck When the ink starts to itch, th...

Time has passed I've forgotten mother nature does wonderful things I thought nothing could stop me from loving you but time changes everything You can change th...

It was the time of the preacher When the story began Of the choice of a lady And the love of a man And how he loved her so dearly He went out of his mind When ...

And to all the girls I've loved before Who traveled in and out my door I'm glad they came along, I dedicate the song To all the girls I've loved before And to ...

It was winter time in Nashville down on Music Row And I was lookin' for a place to get myself out of the cold To warm the frozen feelin' that was eatin' at my s...

Yes, went they through the Lehigh Valley To Lake Erie past Virginia And the land called out its challenge Bring your men to match our mountains See the green Oh...

(Johnny Cash) Train of love's a-comin' Big black wheels a-hummin' People waitin' at the station Happy hearts are drummin' Trainman tell me maybe Ain't you got ...

Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds Took a transfusion and I shot my woman down Went right home and I went to bed I stuck that lovin' 44 beneath my head G...

The Troubador, the Troubador, sings from his heart the song that's the hit of the show Watch him sing and play the strings of his guitar Alone in the bright spo...

Trouble in mind, I'm blue But I won't be blue always, 'Cause that sun is gonna shine in my back door someday I'm going down to the river I'm going top take me ...

Troublesome waters much blacker than night Are hiding from view of the harbor's bright lights Tossed in the turmoil of life's stormy sea I cry to my Saviour hav...

On the first day Of Christmas My true love Sent to me A partridge In a pear tree On the second day Of Christmas My true love Sent to me Two turtledoves And a p...

I woke up this mornin' in a terrible mood Now you talk about a woman treatin' a good man rude She had me talkin' to myself gazin' at that mean ol' wall She had ...

I have been ungrateful And I have been unwise Restless from the cradle But now I realize It's so hard to see the rainbow Through glasses dark as these Maybe I'l...

Here's a song called Virgie That I wrote for aunt Virgie Haughs And I dedicate it to her husband, to her children And the countless people that loved her so muc...

All around the water tank waitin' for a train A thousand miles away from home sleeping in the rain I walked up to a brakeman just to give him a line of talk He ...

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you're mine, I walk the line...

Wanted man in California Wanted man in Buffalo Wanted man in the Kansas City Wanted man in the Ohio Wanted man in Mississippi Wanted man in ol' Cheyenne Wherev...

There's a stool along the road to freedom Like a gipsy in a guilty cage But rising has not always been bright Destiny dreams are made My days all run together ...

I'm a poor wayfaring stranger While traveling thru this world of woe Yet there's no sickness, toil, or danger In that bright world to which I go I'm going there...

So here is the stable and there is the manger The new Saviour sleeps on his first earthly night The wise men brought riches but we brought a candle It's all tha...

We'll meet again Don't know where Don't know when But I know We'll meet again Some sunny day Keep smilin' thru Just like you Always do 'Til the blue skies driv...

Were you there when they crucified my Lord Oh were you there when they crucified my Lord (Oooh sometimes it causes me to tremble) tremble Were you there when t...

I built her a castle of perma stone But I should have reigned more with her Too often I left my queen alone And that was no way to leave her I rode out in ques...

When I'm all through if I haven't been what they think I should be If the total isn't high enough when they figure me When I grow old if there's no gray from wo...

What is man that you are mindful of him Lord You made the stars, you made the sun And all the worlds that came to be at your command What is man? What has he do...

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, "it lo...

Did you walk another mile, turn a frown with a smile? Did you lift the lowly heart about to break? Would you also give your cloak to one who took away your coat...

Come on, come on, it's going to get crazy in the city Askin' God is he really coming back to get me or playing with, yeah And everything I ever learned as a chi...

Once my soul was astray from the heavenly way I was wretched and blind as could be But my Savior in love gave me peace from above When he reached down his hand ...

The worst that I've ever been hurt in my life The first time I ever have wanted to die Was the night when you told me You loved someone else And you asked me if...

There are those who are taking vacations to the mountains the lakes and the sea Where they rest from their cares and their troubles What a wonderful time that m...

My papa was a hobo when they delivered me We didn't have a doctor cause he couldn't pay the fee But when the goin' got too bad to ease his misery Papa played th...

When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more And the morning breaks eternal bright and fair When the saved on earth shall gather over on t...

In a world where everybody's fallin' apart One by one, heart by heart You and I stay together and we never even try Side by side in a world turned upside down ...

To Canaan's land I'm on my way Where the soul (of man) never dies My darkest night will turn to day Where the soul (of man) never dies (lead) No sad farewells...

I have heard of a land on the far away strand 'Tis a beautiful home of the soul Built by Jesus on high, there we never shall die 'Tis a land where we never grow...

Layin' 'round home with a ball game on Feelin' fairly fine Blackberry jam is cookin' in the pan And the jam and the cook are mine I like my honey from the hive...

I am stunned and I am broken and my head is in my hand For she who said she love me will not wed an Indian man My Gods who were wild ridden stand quiet by my si...

Two times of loneliness and heartbreakinÂ' despair and sadness IÂ've always found that a good song of inspiration lift me up Makes me feel, just a little bit be...

The shepherds afar left their flocks by night Followed the new star by its heavenly light Did the lambs fear the wolves did they lay down and sleep Who kept the...

Why do you punish me for loving you You're counting my mistakes how about yours Why do you sentence me too nice of tears Convicting all these dreams I've dreame...

Why me Lord, what have I ever done To deserve even one Of the pleasures I've known Tell me Lord, what did I ever do That was worth loving you Or the kindness yo...

I am a lineman for the county And I drive the main road Searching in the sun For another overload I hear you singing in the wires I can hear you through the whi...

Oh, I'll twine with my mingles and waving black hair With the rose so red and the lilies so fair And the mirltes so bright with the emerald dew The pale and the...

My grandfather lived by the book all his life On rich-bottomed land with twelve kids and a wife He never saw TV nor rode a jet plane But he knew that heaven was...

Would you lay with me in a field of stone If my need were strong would you lay with me Should my lips grow dry would you wet them dear In the midnight hour if m...

Well they gave him his orders at Monroe, Virginia, Said: "Steve, you're way behind time, "This is not 38, this is Ol' 97, "Put her into Spencer on time" Then h...

I've got a lot of blues on my mind and at least a million miles behind me and all that I've got between me and pauper's hill is a wrinkled, crincked, wadded dol...

Like a sweet rippling mountain stream Goes the sound of the banjo on Cripple Creek Never beginning never ending just rippling on and on So does the land just ri...

The other night dear, as I lay sleeping I dreamed I held you in my arms But when I awoke, dear, I was mistaken So I hung my head and I cried You are my sunshin...

He was born to be known as everybody's brother He is the Father, Son and Mary is His mother He is a 'scuse my slanguage Well, a compound country kinda guy (Yes,...

Well, 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 a...

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 you...

The news is out all over town That you've been seen out running around I know that I should leave but then I just can't go, you win again This heart of mine co...

When you walk through a storm Keep your chin up high And don't be afraid of the dark When you walk through a storm Keep your chin up high And don't be afraid of...