I'll sweep out your chimney Yes and I will bring you flowers Yes and I will do for you Most anything you want me to If we live in a cottage You will feel like ...

An old cowpoke went ridin' out one dark and windy day, Upon a ridge he rested as he went along his way When all at once a mighty herd of red eyed cows he saw Co...

Well I'm tired and so weary but I must go along Till the Lord comes and calls calls me away oh yes Well the morning's so bright and the lamb is the light And th...

Well they're building a gallows outside my cell I've got 25 minutes to go And the whole town's waitin' just to hear me yell I've got 24 minutes to go Well they ...

Hello, I'm Johnny Cash One night I had a backstage pass To a Willie Nelson show There were wackoes and weirdoes and dingbats and dodoes And athletes and movie ...

By: Shel Silverstein Recorded by JR Cash on 2/24/69 Number one - Country Charts Number two - Pop Charts My daddy left home when I was three And he didn't leave...

The only thing that 'll move me now is a fast song Song long and barely known And I don't wanna hear no crying all gone wrong song. Kick it off and let's all p...

One night after a concert I walked through the streets of the town And came upon a little church The service was over but the testimonials had just begun Peopl...

If heartaches brought fame in love's crazy game, I'd be a legend in my time If they gave gold statuettes for tears and regrets, I'd be a legend in my time But ...

A cowpoke rode in, one hot dusty day To a store down in old San Antone He stood at the window and I heard him say Do I have a letter from home The postmaster l...

Stop lovin' me a little at a time, let me lose you a little at a time Walk away slow like you don't want to go, leave me a little at a time For my benefit try ...

How many times have You heard someone say If I had his money, I could do things my way But little they know That it's so hard to find, One rich man in ten With ...

Im not a savior, and Im not a saint The man with the answers I certainly aint I wouldn't tell you what's right or what's wrong Im just a singer of songs But I ...

Six foot six he stood on the ground, he weighted 235 pounds But I saw that giant of a man brought down to his knees by love He was the kind of man that would ga...

Every town has its town bum I guess ours had one Here's a song about him, I remember him fondly Well his name was Abner Brown I knew an old drunk named Abner B...

Accidentaly I saw you this morning you were lovely dressed in your wedding gown And they say that you married a stranger to me that had drifted to our old homet...

I feel so good come payday I think of all the things I'm gonna Buy when I pick up my pay Don't you know, but then they hand me That little brown envelope I pee...

Well, I asked an old truck driver About life out on the road If he does a lotta singing When he's bringing in his load If there's a pretty waitress crying for ...

I'd sing more about moral of this land But all God's children ain't free I'd open up every door I can 'Cause all God's children ain't free I met a beaten broke...

Every time I look at you I fall in love, all over again Every time I think of you it all begins, all over again One little dream at night and I can dream all d...

Always alone, alone and blue I've got no one to tell my troubles to No one to care, to call my own It seems that I must always be alone The day you left, you b...

Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me I once was lost but now I'm found was blind but now I see Twas grace that taught my heart to fear ...

Another man done gone (another man done gone) Another man done gone another man done gone another man done gone Another man done gone (another man done gone Ano...

Lord, she's restless Like cotton candy clouds that sail the day Slow an' free And she possesses A mind that can't resign itself to stay For long with me Tho' I'...

Hoof prints and foot prints deep ruts the wagons made The victor and the loser came by here No head stones but these bones bring Mascalero death moans See the s...

When I'm alone I often think of an old house on the hill Of a big yard hedged in roses where we ran and played at will And when the night time brought us home h...

As long as the moon shall rise as long as the rivers flow As long as the sun will shine as long as the grass shall grow The Senecas are an Indian tribe of the ...

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...

They had a warrant out for me all over the country And I was trying to beat the raps in Idaho I was breaking into a schoolhouse Sunday morning without warning W...

Away in a manger, no crib for His bed The little Lord Jesus laid down His sweet head The stars in the Heavens looked down where He lay The little Lord Jesus asl...

(Written by John D Loudermilk) (As performed by Johnny Cash) Well, bad news travels like wildfire Good news travel slow They all call me Wildfire 'Cause everyb...

(Dream on, dream on teenage queen prettiest girl we've ever seen) There's a story in our town Of the prettiest girl around Golden hair and eyes of blue How tho...

I asked my love to take a walk Just a little ways with me And as we walked and we would talk All about our weddingday (chorus) And only say that you'll be min...

I KNOW THAT HEARTS WERE LOVING LONG BEFORE I WAS HERE AND I'M NOT THE FIRST TO EVER CRY IN MY BED OR IN MY BEER THERE WERE SONGS BEFORE THERE WAS RADIO OF LOVE ...

1776 the thirteen colonies Broke away from British rule and took a stand "We're on our own", they said And they looked across the land With a defiant challenge ...

Well, the Bible tells us about a man Who ruled Babylon and all its land Around the city he built the wall And declared that Babylon would never fall He had con...

Big John Big John Every mornning at the mine, you could see him arrive He stood 6 foot 6, weighed 245 Kind of broad at the shoulders, narrow at the hip And eve...

But the land was already claimed by a people When the cowboy came and when the soldiers came The story of the American Indian is in a lot of ways A story of tra...

To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day Hardly spoke to folks around him didn't have too much to say No one dared to ask his business no one dared...

Now I taught the weeping willow how to cry, And I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky And the tears that I cried for that woman are gonna flood y...

Like a bird on a wire Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free Like a fish on a hook Like a knight from an old fashioned book I have s...

I got great big blisters On my bloodshot eyes From looking at that Long legged woman up ahead What she does simply walking Down the sidewalks of that city Make...

(I'll have a blue blue Christmas) I'll have a blue blue Christmas without you I'll be so blue thinking about you Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree Wo...

There's an engine at the station and the whistle calls my name It's callin' callin' callin', come and get aboard the train My baby's gone and I'm alone to live ...

The claim we hold is good as gold bonanza Hand in hand we built this land the Ponderosa Ranch Our birthright is this Cartwright bonanza We here belong and stand...

Written by Frankie Brown (As performed by Ray Price) Born to lose, I've lived my life in vain Every dream has only brought me pain All my life, I've always bee...

Pick a lot o'cotton drag a long sack comin' across the field well I see Boss Jack He's a ridin' straddle of a single foot roan When you know that horse you'll l...

my daddy left home when i was three and he didnt leave much to ma and me just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze now i dont blame him cause he ran and...

Baby you're tired I can see in your eyes I know how you feel We've been together too long to conceal What's in you hearts maybe we should part but after so many...

Breaking Bread, Breaking Bread we are gathered here together to break bread Breaking Bread, Breaking Bread we are gathered here together to break bread It's no...

When you're weary, feeling small When tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all I'm on your side when times get rough And friends just can't be found Like a b...

Arrested on charges of unemployment, He was sitting in the witness stand The judge's wife called up the district attorney Said you free that brown eyed man You ...

Love is a burning thing And it makes a fiery ring Bound by wild desire I fell into a ring of fire I fell into a burning ring of fire I went down, down, down An...

My bills are all due and the babies need shoes, But I'm Busted Cotton's gone down to a quarter a pound And I'm Busted I got a cow that's gone dry And a hen tha...

A little girl woke up deep in the dark and started cryin' The mother brought a light and held her daughter tight She thought it was so strange to hear a little ...

Call me the breeze I keep blowin down the road Well now they call me the breeze I keep blowin down the road I aint got me nobody I dont carry me no load Aint n...

Come all you rounders if you wanna hear the story about a brave engineer Casey Jones was the roller's name on a 68 wheeler course he won his fame Caller called ...

Casey joins the hollow sound Of silent people walking down The stairway to the subway In the shadows down below Following the footsteps Through the neon darken...

A child arrived just the other day He came to the world in the usual way But there were planes to catch, and bills to pay He learned to walk while I was away A...

I was just a kid roamin' around travelin' through a little ol' town A man walked up and said come with me you're broke and son that's vagrancy I carefree lad th...

Recorded by Johnny Cash Writer: Bob Drawdy (Spoken) [G] I was thumbin' a ride one Saturday mornin' Out of [C] Nashville totin' my sack I lent my [D7] car to a ...

There ain't no money to buy cocaine, sugar babe There ain't no money to buy cocaine, sugar babe There ain't no money to buy cocaine Burn your nose and rot your ...

Children go where I send thee How shall I send thee? I'm gonna send thee two by two Two by Paul and Silas One by the little bitty baby Born, born, born in Beth...

One day near Christmas when I was just a child Mama called us together and mama tried to smile She said you know the cottoncrop hasn't been too good this year T...

I'm just an old chunk of coal But I'm gonna be a diamond some day I'm gonna glow and grow 'Til I'm so blue pure perfect I'm gonna put a smile on everybody's fac...

(Feat Nick Cave) (Kaye - Weisman - Fuller) Wish I was an apple dangling from a tree Every time you'd pass me by you'd take a bite of me I wish I was a bluebird...

City jail city jail like an old scared dog I tuck my tail Bow my head and not a careless word is said Gotta sleep on the floor once more at city jail Well I wa...

Ridin' on the City of New Orleans Illinois Central, Monday mornin' rail 15 cars & 15 restless riders Three conductors, 25 sacks of mail All along the southboun...

(Oh my darling Clementine) She knew that Cody was the man she wanted but she had waited nearly all her life Just one more trip to town to tell the boys goodbye ...

Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down I went right home and I went to bed I stuck that lovin' 44 beneath m...

One of these cold lonesome mornings, you're gonna kill me I'm gonna lay there and I'm gonna die You will soon give me pain enough to fill me 'Cause I'm gone pas...

Well, it's plain to see you're givin' me a cold shoulder You put a chill on every thrill with a cold shoulder All the time I wait around to get a little squeeze...

I tried so hard, my dear, to show That you're my every dream Yet you're afraid each thing I do Is just some evil scheme A memory from your lonesome past Keeps ...

She said: "Come in stranger, it's good to have you home I hurried thru 'cause I knew it was you, when I saw your dog, waggin' his tail Honey, why didn't you let...

And she spread her wings and she flew Yup, the nation was flying now Taken to the air, in few hours time you could fly over All those trails blazed by the pione...

Johnny Cash Verse 1: A/ E/ There's a man across the hall who sits staring at the floor E/ A/ He thinks he's Hank Williams hear him singing through the door D/ ...

Country boy, ain't got no shoes Country boy, ain't got no blues Well, you work all day while you're waitin' to play In the sun and the sand, with a face that's ...

I got a crib full of corn, and a turnin' plow But the grounds to wet for the hopper now Got a cultivator and a double tree A leather line for the hull and gee L...

I've had fame and fortune Women come knock on my door I've lived to the limit Maybe a little bit more There are so many stories About how I got out of control ...

Everybody knows where you go when the sun goes down I think you only live to see the lights of town I wasted my time when I would try, try, try When the lights ...

Now I will tell you buster that I ain't a fan of Custer And the General he don't ride well anymore To some he was a hero but to me his score was zero And the Ge...

Written by Carl Perkins Recorded by Johnny Cash on 7/30/68 Number one - County Chart Number 42 - Pop Chart I remember when I was a lad Times were hard and thin...

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 falling it's you it's you must go ...

Oh come all you young fellers so young and so fine Seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul Till the stream of yo...

Darlin' companion, come on and give me understandin' And let me be your champion: a hand to hold your pretty hand in Darlin' companion, now you know you'll neve...

written by John R Cash and John Carter Cash She stepped down from her carriage at 10 Vermillon Street I took off my roustabout and slung it to her feet We went...

Delia, oh, Delia Delia all my life If I hadn't have shot poor Delia I'd have had her for my wife Delia's gone, one more round Delia's gone I went up to Memphis...

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses? You been out ridin' fences for so long now Oh, you're a hard one, But I know that you've got your reasons These th...

It's been ten long years since The devil laid his fiddle at Johnny's feet And it burned inside his mind The way he suffered that defeat In the darkest pits of ...

Well, about the time my daddy left to fight the big war I saw my first pistol in the general store In the general store, when I was thirteen Thought it was the ...

Well he's not very handsome to look at Oh he's shaggy and he eats like a hog And he's always killin' my chickens That dirty old egg-suckin' dog Egg-suckin' dog...

I've got a home in glory land that out-shines the sun I've got a home in glory land that out-shines the sun I've got a home in glory land that out-shines the su...

From the fountains in the mountains Comes the water running cool and clear and blue And it comes down from the hills And it goes down to the towns and passes th...

You take my hand and smile at me But I can tell you'd rather be Alone or with somebody else you know And when your eyes looking to mine That old time love light...

We all were called to come back To the old home on the farm Mother's passed away, what a mournful day And as my daddy watched His eyes were filled with pain and...

I've got a home in glory land that out-shines the sun I've got a home in glory land that out-shines the sun I've got a home in glory land that out-shines the su...

As I walked by the lake one day by chance my Dorraine passed my way Then she and I walked hand in hand on the banks of Ponchartrain I pinned a flower on her hea...

Well you can't be my lovin' baby You ain't gotta style I'm gonna get some real good love Gonna drive those cool cats wild I'm gonna move, move on down the line...

(Drink to me drink to me drink to me drink to me drink to me) A rose a carnation the lily and an orchid make such a pretty bouquet But only the orchid was worth...

I got a friend named Whiskey Sam He was my boonierat buddy for a year in Nam He said is my country just a little off track Took 'em twenty-five years to welcome...