Johnny Cash

fox69 · 28.11.2014

"After The Ball"

"After The Ball"

I hear people laughing on the corner by the square
The neon flickers on my wall and I know you're out there
I've been in here a listening for your footsteps down the hall
And I'll be waiting for you after the ball

After the ball is over, after the ball
If you cannot stand I got a place for you to fall
The blinds are drawn and I have turned the clock-face to the wall
I'll be waiting for you after the ball.

Loving you is a sweet addiction I need only you
Just as long as you come back we'll do what you want to
Give the night your laughter, but I'll have you after all.
I'll be waiting for you after the ball

After the ball is over, after the ball
If you cannot stand I got a place for you to fall
The blinds are drawn and I have turned the clock-face to the wall
I'll be waiting for you after the ball.

fox69 · 28.11.2014

"Ah Bos Cee Dah"

"Ah Bos Cee Dah"

Well if you'd like to learn your ABC
Then listen very carefully to me
You can sing them like a funny foreign song
And very very soon, you sing alone
And you can sing your ABC's like this, here's the first State letters
Ah bos cee dah - ef fah gha hah
Ah bos cee dah - ef fah gha hah
A b c d - e f g h
Ah bos cee dah - ef fah gha hah
And the next State letters in the alphabet, you sing like this
Ay jah kah lah - meh nah ou pah
Ay jah kah lah - meh nah ou pah
I j k l - m n o p
Ay jah kah lah - meh nah ou pah
Well, that's sixteen letters of the alphabet and there's ten more, you know
But let's try those last ten, slow
Queh ahr see tah uh - vee whu ix yah zee
Queh ahr see tah uh - vee whu ix yah zee
Q r s t u - v w x y z
Queh ahr see tah uh - vee whu ix yah zee
Now let's try them all
Ah bos cee dah - ef fah gha hah
Ay jah kah lah - meh nah ou pah
Queh ahr see tah uh - vee whu ix yah zee - means
A b c d e f g h I j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

fox69 · 28.11.2014

"Ain't Gonna Hobo No More"

"Ain't Gonna Hobo No More"

Well here I am a hobo with my hobo's pots and pans
In an Alberta rail yard with my red-faced hobo friends
Here comes a train east bound for Nova Scotia shore
It's my last ride my friends ain't gonna hobo no more

So long BC Benning you have been a real good friend
And goodbye Boxcar Willie I guess I won't see you again
Here comes a train homebound for Nova Scotia shore
It's my last ride my friend ain't gonna hobo no more

No one loves a hobo and I need some love
Yes I'm always so hungry and I never get enough
And no one wants a hobo hanging round their doors
It's my last ride my friends ain't gonna hobo no more

There's a man in Halifax that will give this bum a job
I'll use the money to find a woman I can love
Here comes a train east bound for Nova Scotia shore
It's my last ride my friends ain't gonna hobo no more

No one loves a hobo and I need some love...
It's my last ride my friends ain't gonna hobo no more

fox69 · 28.11.2014

"Ain't No Grave (Gonna Hold This Body Down)"
(originally by Claude Ely)

"Ain't No Grave (Gonna Hold This Body Down)"
(originally by Claude Ely)

There ain't no grave
Can hold my body down
There ain't no grave
Can hold my body down

When I hear that trumpet sound
I'm gonna rise right out of the ground
Ain't no grave
Can hold my body down

Well, look way down the river
And what do you think I see
I see a band of angels
And they're coming after me

Ain't no grave
Can hold my body down
There ain't no grave
Can hold my body down

Well, look down yonder, Gabriel
Put your feet on the land and sea
But Gabriel, don't you blow your trumpet
Until you hear from me

There ain't no grave
Can hold my body down
Ain't no grave
Can hold my body down

Well meet me, Jesus, meet me
Meet me in the middle of the air
And if these wings don't fail me,
I will meet you anywhere

Ain't no grave
Can hold my body down
There ain't no grave
Can hold my body down

Well meet me, Mother and Father,
Meet me down the river road
And Mama, you know that I'll be there
When I check in my load

Ain't no grave
Can hold my body down
There ain't no grave
Can hold my body down
There ain't no grave
Can hold my body down

fox69 · 28.11.2014

"Ain't You Ashamed"

"Ain't You Ashamed"

Oh you sit there and smile and you hold him by the hand
You'll make him a failure and break him as a man
You know, he was mine, yes you took the things, I claimed
Look into the mirror, woman, ain't you ashamed

[Refrain:]
Ain't you ashamed that you took all I owned
You lured him away from me with your sweet lies and song
Your comment, I'm a dozen, and things that I can't blame
Look into the mirror, woman, ain't you ashamed

These gray hairs, I wear, are not put there by age
In my book of life, your name's on many a page
Our fire of love was burning but you lured him from the flame
Look into the mirror, woman, ain't you ashamed

[Refrain]

fox69 · 28.11.2014

"All Around Cowboy"

"All Around Cowboy"

Just a broken down cowboy all down on his luck
He's been through the best of his friends
On a long lonesome highway and an old pickup truck
Crossed Texas with a hot dusty wind
He was all around cowboy 1959 from the top it's been a long way down
Since the whiskey and ladies started winning his time
They rode him high and hard to the ground
But he remembers the thrill of bein' a winner
And the feeling of bein' a beginner in the days of his first rodeo
But there was something about winning that didn't last forever
But tomorrow it's bound to get better he'll be the all around cowboy again

The windmills're turning on the west Texas plains but he's dry as an old river bed
He's just like the dust that's a searching for rain but he knows he'll be ridin' again
So he rolls up a smoke and he sips his Old Crow
Whipes the whiskers that cover his chin
He grins as he dreams of the next rodeo to be the all around cowboy again
But he remembers the thrill...

fox69 · 28.11.2014

"All I Do Is Drive"

"All I Do Is Drive"

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 him
Every hundred miles
If he gets a lotta loving
If he has a lot of smiles

And I asked him if those trucking songs
Tell about a life like his
He said, if you want to know the truth about it
Here's the way it is

All I do is drive, drive, drive
Try to stay alive
And keep my mind on my load
Keep my eye upon the road

I got nothin' in common with any man
Who's home every day at five
All I do is drive, drive, drive, drive, drive, drive, drive

Well, we shared a cup of coffee
Then I had to warm it up
And his greasy fingers trembled
As he held onto the cup

And I said, don't you hear a lot of music
See a lot of sights
But if you'll tune into the Grand Ole Opry
Saturday night

I will dedicate you a trucking song
To which you can relate
He said, you just do the singing
And I'll do the driving mate

All I do is drive, drive, drive
Try to stay alive
And keep my mind on my load
Keep my eye upon the road

I got nothin' in common with any man
Who's home every day at five
All I do is drive, drive, drive, drive, drive, drive, drive

If I can get the fuel
Fuel

fox69 · 28.11.2014

"All Of God's Children Ain't Free"

"All Of God's Children Ain't Free"

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 broken man he shovels dirt but got no land
And he held out his hand to me all God's children ain't free
I'd sing along too a silly song but all God's children ain't free
I'm gonna sing the blues for the men they done wrong
Cause all God's children ain't free
Mister how bout the man you condemn to die
But taking everything that he's livin' by
And reject him from society all God's children ain't free
No reject him from society all God's children ain't free

I'd be happy walking any street but all God's children ain't free
I'd have a smile for all I meet but all God's children ain't free
I'd whistle down the road but I wouldn't feel right
I'd hear somebody cryin' out at night
From a sharecropper shack or penitentiary all God's children ain't free
From a sharecropper shack or penitentiary all God's children ain't free

fox69 · 28.11.2014

"All Over Again"

"All Over Again"

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 day
It only takes a memory to thrill me
One little kiss from you and I just fly away
Pour me out your love until you fill me

I want to fall in love beginning from the start,
All over again
Show me how you stole away my heart,
All over again

One little dream at night and I can dream all day
It only takes a memory to thrill me
One little kiss from you and I just fly away
Pour me out your love until you fill me

I want to fall in love beginning from the start,
All over again
Show me how you stole away my heart,
All over again

All over again,
All over again,
All over again

fox69 · 28.11.2014

"Allegheny"

"Allegheny"

How she got that junk car runnin' guess I'll never know
It never ran but once and set to winters in the snow
Well imagine runnin' out on me when I lay sound asleep Allegheny
Well my big mistake was thinkin' she was something I could keep
She stole my winter's food supply and something else I fear
My savin's in the mattress have strangely disappeared
Now those who know me best knows he who robs me best beware Allegheny
I'm gonna call up the dogs and hunt you down drag you back here by the hair

Oh Allegheny something tells me you're dis-satisfied
Well could it be because I've been your mail-order bride
There's a half of you that's French yeah and I need to crave a better style
And a half of you is Cherokee yeah and I've gone wild Allegheny

She's got a head start on me as a crow flies half a day
And unless I miss my guess she'll stop to rest in Monterey
But if I take the Knoxville Highway thirteen hours it will be Allegheny
Well she forgot I knew the shortcut I'll be there in less than three

Oh Allegheny something tells me...

I signaled for my dogs to wait outside the hotel door
I described her to the desk clerk he said try the second floor
And then he mentioned she's got company
And that marks the stranget's doom Allegheny
I wish I was her so I could see my face when I bust into the room

Oh Allegheny something tells me...
Allegheny Allegheny come back here Allegheny Allegheny