A way out on the mountain near the sky Hiding from the cold realities of life Shaking that old road dust off my heels I give my heart and mind a chance to heal ...

I've never been in prison I don't know much about trains My favorite singer cooks my breakfast I like her fancy and I like her plain I love bright and flashing...

(Dolly Parton) I'm a drifter, a driftin' drifter Got no place to call my home no more I'm a wanderer, a wandering wanderer Got no one to call my own no more G...

I've been a rambler, I've been a gambler I've been in trouble a time or two I known a lot good looking women But Lord, bless the day that I found You I'm alrig...

I got rid of the shackles that bound me and the guards that were always around me There were tears on the mail mother wrote me in jail But I'm free from the cha...

Bring a drink of water Leroy, bring a drink of water no If I could get to the mercy man, he'd give me some I know I got a gal in Vickburg, Bertha is her name Lo...

I'm gonna try to be that way Once upon a time there lived a man Many years ago in a foreign land Knew how to live right, tried to be a light Gave everybody a he...

Hold on honey I'd like to say I'm busting out and breaking away I'm letting you go like a hot horse shoe I can't take another heart ache from you Think about h...

(Hank Snow) That big eight-wheeler rollin' down the track Means your true-lovin' daddy ain't comin' back 'Cause I'm movin' on, I'll soon be gone You were flyin...

Hey little girl is your daddy home Did he go away and leave you all alone I got a bad desire I'm on fire Tell me now baby is he good to you Can he do to you th...

Well, I've come here to tell you folks, I'm ragged but I'm right I'm a tramp and a gambler, I stay out late at night But a Porterhouse steak three times a day f...

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill? He sounds too blue to fly The midnight train is whining low: I'm so lonesome I could cry I've never seen a night so long, When...

I was totin my pack along the long dusty Winnemucca road When along came a semi with a high canvas covered load If your goin' to Winnemucca, Mack with me you ca...

Down a dangerous road,i have come to where i'm standing With a heavy heart,and my hat clutched in my hand Such a foolish fool,God ain't known no greater sinner ...

If I told you who it was - Johnny Cash I was down in music city 'bout a week ago so I held a cap and I headed down to Opryland They said they sold their last t...

If I were a carpenter and you were a lady, Would you marry me anyway? Would you have my baby? If a tinker were my trade would you still find me, carrin' the po...

If Jesus Ever Loved A Woman, I think Mary Magdalene Was the woman that He loved If Jesus Ever Loved A Woman It was Mary Magdalene His life was pure perfection ...

If the good Lord's willing and the creek stays down I'll be in your arms time the moon come around For a taste of love that's shining in your eyes If the rooste...

(Albert E Brumley) Soon we'll come to the end of life's journey And perhaps never meet anymore Till we gather in heaven's bright city Far away on that beautifu...

If you could read my mind, love, What a tale my thoughts could tell Just like an old time movie, 'Bout a ghost from a wishing well In a castle dark or a fortres...

There are places I'll remember All my life Though some have changed Some forever Not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their momen...

I come to the garden alone While the dew is still on the roses And the voice I hear, falling on my ear The Son of God discloses And he walks with me And he talk...

Written by Jimmie Rodgers (As performed by Webb Pierce) He's in the jailhouse now He's in the jailhouse now I told him once or twice To quit playin' cards and ...

There's a land that is fairer than day and by faith we can see it apart For the father waits over the way to prepare us a dwelling place there In the sweet by a...

When I was a little bitty baby my mama would rock me in my cradle In them old cottonfields back home When I was a little bitty baby Now when them cotton bolls g...

In Your Mind In your mind one foot on Jacob's ladder and one foot in the fire and it all goes down in your mind Livin' at the bottom of the stairs of life neve...

So blue Lonesome too But still true Rosie haunts me Makes me think of you You're the one rose that's left in my heart, dear I love you, adore you, I do Each nig...

Go away from my window Leave at your own chosen speed I'm not the one you want, babe I'm not the one you need You say you're lookin' for someone Who's never wea...

It came upon the midnight clear That glorious song of old From angels bending near the earth To touch their harps of gold Peace on the earth, good will to men ...

If you should meet some lonely soul who on this earth can't reach his gold And he's travelin' down the road so dark and dim Lend the hand say a prayer give a sm...

The chimes of time ring out the news, another day is through Someone slipped and fell, was that someone you? You may have longed for added strength, your courag...

Well a man walked down by Galilee so the Holy Book does say And a great multitude was gathered there without a thing to eat for days Up stepped a little boy wit...

If anyone ever finds a better way To love it'll be her lovin' me If anyone ever goes out of their way To show they care it'll be her lovin' me She's every woma...

I was on my way to you and I was worried I was all torn up and nervous 'cause I knew that you'd be gone I knocked and crossed my fingers while I waited And I co...

Maybe it's just about time I told you I'm all Through with you But just about the time I start to tell you I start feeling blue And just about then I lose my n...

We got married in a fever Hotter than a pepper sprout We've been talkin' 'bout Jackson Ever since the fire went out I'm goin' to Jackson I'm gonna mess around ...

Jacob Green got busted for possession Next morning early he appeared in court But he was sent to jail to wait to be trialed at some later date Next morning earl...

Written by Ernest Tubb & Billy Tubb (As recorded by Ernest Tubb and Johnny Cash) Don't ever kiss no one but me If you do, dear, you'll break my heart It's not ...

Jesus was a carpenter and He worked with a saw and a hammer And His hands could join a table true enough to stand forever And He might have spun His life out in...

Last time we were here at Folsom Prison, they were hanging Joe Bean Is Joe still hereJoe Bean? Hang the son of a bitch anyways, right? Well, they're hanging J...

Well they closed down the auto plant in Mahwah late last month Ralph went out lookin' for a job but he couldn't find none He came home too drunk from mixin' Tan...

Cane standin' in the fields gettin' old and red Lot of misery in Georgetown dreamin' layin' dead Joshua head of the government he said strike for better pay Can...

Joy to the world, the Lord is come Let Earth receive her King Let every heart prepare Him room And Heaven and nature sing And Heaven and nature sing And Heaven...

(Just about time I'm feelin' blue tryin' to get over you) Maybe it's just about time I told you I'm all through with you But just about the time I start to tel...

Just as I am without one plea but that Thy blood was shed for me And that Thou bid'st me come to Thee oh lamb of God I come I come [ strings ] Just as I am and ...

Put the bottle on the table let it stay there till I'm unable To see your face in every place that I go I've been sitting here too long just remembering that yo...

(Kris Kristofferson) I come from just the other side of nowhere To this big time lonesome town They got a lot of ice and snow here, Half as cold as all the peo...

Written by Marty Robbins (As performed by Johnny Cash) Well I saw you with another It made me lose my mind Shot you with my '38 And now I'm doin' time And you ...

(Kris Kristofferson) I come from just the other side of nowhere To this big time lonesome town They got a lot of ice and snow here, Half as cold as all the peo...

If you gonna be king of the hill You can't make it at the cotton mill If you gonna be king of the hill You can't make it at the cotton mill Get put on at the H...

Lord have mercy on me Was the kneeling drunkard's plea And as he knelt there on the ground I know that God in heaven looked down I went down by an old country c...

Last night I had the strangest dream I've ever known beforeI dreamed that all the world agreed to put an end to warI dreamed I saw a mighty roomthe room was fil...

When my hands are tired and my step is slow Walk beside me and give me the strenght to go Fill my face with your courage so defeat won't show Pick me up when I ...

Oh lead me gently home father lead me gently home When life's toils are ended and parting days have come Sin no more will tempt me there from Thee I'll roam If ...

Let me down easy if you must go why not deceive me it won't hurt me so Truth is so painful tell me a lie let me down easy and I'll get by Let me down easy for o...

Brightly beams our father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore But to us he gives the keeping of the lights along the shore (Let the lower lights be burning sen...

I don't want no aggravation When my train has left the station If you're there or not, I may not even know Have a round and remember Things we did that weren't ...

My baby left me just the other day I guess the things will never be the same But I must forget that she is gone 'Cause time goes by and life goes on Making pla...

Life is like a mountain railway With an engineer that's brave We must make the run successful From the cradle to the grave Heed the curves and watch the tunnel...

With the twilight colors falling And the evening laying shadows Hidden memories come stealing from my mind As I feel my own heart beating out The simple joy of ...

Like a young cold the country was now growing fast Passenger trains in the east were traveling a hundred miles an hour People in the country could buy clothes b...

It should be a while before I see Dr Death So it would sure be nice if I could get my breath Well I'm not the crying nor the whining kind 'Till I hear the whist...

Come they told me our newborn King to see Our finest gifts we bring to lay before the King This is to honor him when we come Baby Jesus I am a poor boy too I ha...

My pappy said when I was seventeen you're six feet tall and your face is clean And it don't look right for a boy that old to not make a livin' loadin' coal Load...

On the park bench I slept on Raindrops are fallin' on the newspapers coverin' me I hear early mornin' motors And I know the world is wakin' for the dawn But my...

Johnny: Well, I'm gonna start out walkin' / just you wait and see June: Uh-uh guitar picker / you ain't leavin' without me Johnny: Oh, you big mouthed woman Jun...

The teacher of truth told tales Of trouble times that would begin And the cynical sower sowed The sorrowful seeds of seven sins The people placed a price upon ...

A burnin' hot sun a cryin' for water black wings circle the sky Stumblin' and fallin' somebody's callin' you're lost on the desert to die I had to give up and t...

Well, at birth mom and papa called their little boy Ned Raised him on the banks of a river bed On a houseboat tied to a big tall tree A home for my papa and my ...

I have been a rover I have walked alone Hiked a hundred highways Never found a home Still in all I'm happy The reason is, you see Once in a while along the way ...

I lived on a farm out in Iowa I pulled the corn and I worked in the hay Got trapped by a girl but I wiggled free heard the Oregon timber callin' me Will you tel...

(Johnny Cash) We were just a plain ol' hillbilly band with a plain ol' country style We never played the kind of songs that'd drive anybody wild Played a railr...

When you wake up in the mornin', baby, look inside your mirror I won't be next to you, you know I won't be near I'd just be curious to know if your reflection i...

By: John R Cash Recorded February 16, 1971 Number 3 - Country Charts Number 58 - Pop Charts Well, you wonder why I always dress in black, Why you never see bri...

I studied at the feet of a master Gamaliel we called him, the beauty of the law I was born of the Tribe of Benjamin, I was a Pharisee And I could quote from mem...

Was on one cold winter's night And the wind blew across the wild moor Poor Mary came wand'ring with a child in her arms And she stopped at her own father's door...

1, 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 3, 4 I heard on the radio rumors of war People gettin' ready for battle And there may be just one more I heard about an earthquake And the to...

By: John R Cash I heard on the radio there's rumors of war People getting ready for battle And there may be just one more I heard about an earthquake And the t...

Well, it's been rough and rocky travelin' But I'm finally standin' upright on the ground And after takin' several readings I'm surprised to find my mind's still...

The Devil in Hell we're told was chained A thousand years he there remained He neither complain nor did he groan But was determined to start a Hell of his own ...

I give my woman half my money at the general store I said, "Now buy a little groceries, and don't spend no more" But she gave ten dollars for a ten cent hat And...

We saw houses falling from the sky Where the mountains lean down to the sand We saw blackbirds circling 'round an old castle keep And I stood on the cliff and h...

Take one fresh and tender kiss Add one stolen night of bliss One girl, one boy, some grief, some joy Memories are made of this Don't forget a small moonbeam Fol...

It all began when they took me from my home And put me on Death Row, A crime for which I am totally innocent, you know I began to warm and chill To objects and...

Mr. Garfield been shot down Shot down, shot down Mr. Garfield been shot down low Me and my brother Was down close to the depot When I heard the report of a pis...

I've got no fire inside of me can't be the man I try to be Oh Mr Lonesome hanging round Don't wanna see nobody don't wanna be nobody Oh Mr Lonesome got me down ...

I prayed to feel more joy in my salvation A selfish prayer I finally came to know For the greatest joy while living comes to me when I am giving Giving children...

There are some things I may not know there are some places I can't go But I am sure of this one thing my God is real for I can feel him in my soul My god is rea...

My Grandfathers ClockBY Johnny Cash (Spoken) Way down south, down a long dusty road, There's an old ramshakle house That nobody lives in anymore And if you wal...

Written by Randy Newman ( Super Songs Unltd/Unichappell Music Inc) From "John R Cash", 1974, Columbia Turpentine and dandelion wine, I've turned the corner, a...

I will walk this road a while I will walk it with a smile I will take it in my stride Someday I'll be satisfied Life is just a passing moment On an never endin...

I saved a lot of money, my fortune was untold And like a fool I idealized, my silver and my gold My earthly treasure's mounted but when I counted through I real...

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...

Coleman Bonner was a fiddle playin' fool He's a backwoods rounder and a breaker of mules Coleman Bonner's got a wore out bow He's been playin' all day down the ...

There's a new moon over Jamaica And the new year just got here, you see There's a new moon over Jamaica And I'm living with an old memory So won't you come bac...

(Cash) The next in line will be someone who loves you The next in line is me, 'cause it's my time Now how long will it be, till you end my misery You better be...

Well this nine pound hammer is a little too heavy for my size honey for my size I'm goin' on the mountain gonna see my baby And I ain't comin' back Lord I ain't...

Come hear me good brothers come here one and all Don't brag about standing or you'll surely fall You're shinin' your light yes and shine if you should You're so...

Aint no good chain gang Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings Bet it ain't raining back home Bet your sister's still on the phone Bet Momma's in the kitchen, cooking f...

I'm a poor boy from the farm land Your father is a wealthy sailing man If I asked you for your hand Would you tell me no? Oh no, no, no You're a poor boy from ...