HAPPINESS IS YOU (Johnny Cash - June Carter) « © '65 Southwind Music » Way down the mountain I chased a moonbeam on the beach I built sand castles too My moonbeams faded my castles tumbled All of this was meaningless cause happiness is you No more chasing moonbeams or catching falling stars I know now my pot of gold is anywhere you are My heart won't miss you my heart goes with you Loneliness is emptiness but happiness is you [ flute ] I tried to doubt you and live without you tried to deny but I love you like a do But I realize now and I'll admit it you'll always be a part of me cause happiness is you No more chasing moonbeams...	SAN QUENTIN (Johnny Cash) « © '68 House Of Cash » San Quentin you've been livin' hell to me you hosted me since 1963 I've seen 'em come and go and I've seen 'em die and long ago I stopped askin' why San Quentin I hate every inch of you You've cut me and you scarred me through and through And I'll walk out a wiser weaker man Mr Congresman you can't understand [ guitar ] San Quentin what good do you think you do Do you think I'll be diff'rent when you're through You bent my heart and mind and you ward my soul Your stone walls turn my blood a little cold San Quentin may you rot and burn in hell may your walls fall and may I live to tell May all the world forget you ever stood and may all the world regret you did no good San Quentin I hate every inch of you
DON'T TAKE YOUR GUNS TO TOWN (Johnny Cash) « © '58 Johnny Cash Music » A young cowboy named Billy Joe grew restless on the farm A boy filled with wanderlust who really meant no harm He changed his clothes and shined his boots and combed his dark hair down And his mother cried as he walked out Don't take your guns to town son leave your guns at home Bill Don't take your guns to town He laughed and kissed his mom and said your Billy Joe's a man I can shoot as quick and straight as anybody can But I wouldn't shoot without a cause I'd gun nobody down But she cried again as he rode away Don't take your guns to town... He sang a song as on he rode his guns hung at his hips He rode into a cattle town a smile upon his lips He stopped and walked into a bar and laid his money down But his mother's words echoed again Don't take your guns to town... He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand And tried to tell himself at last he had become a man A dusty cowpoke at his side began to laugh him down And he heard again his mother's words Don't take your guns to town... Bill was raged and Billy Joe reached for his gun to draw But the stranger drew his gun and fired it before he even saw As Billy Joe fell to the floor the crowd all gathered round And wondered at his final words Don't take your guns to town... **********	FRANKIE'S MAN JOHNNY (Johnny Cash) « © '58 Johnny Cash Music » Well now Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts They were true as a blue blue sky He was a long-legged guitar picker with a wicked wanderin' eye But he was her man nearly all of the time Well Johnny he packed up to leave her but he promised he'd be back He said he had a little pickin' to do a little farther down the track He said I'm your man I wouldn't do you wrong Well Frankie curled up on the sofa thinkin' about her man Far away the couples were dancing to the music of his band He was Frankie's man he wadn't doin' her wrong Then in the front door walked a redhead Johnny saw her right away She came down by the bandstand to watch him while he played He was Frankie's man but she was far away He sang every song to the redhead she smiled back at him Then he came and sat at her table where the lights were low and dim What Frankie didn't know wouldn't hurt her none Then the redhead jumped up and slapped him she slapped him a time or two She said I'm Frankie's sister and I was checking up on you If you're her man you better treat her right Well the moral of this story is be good but carry a stick Sometimes it looks like a guitar picker just can't tell what to pick He was Frankie's man and he still ain't done her wrong **********
IT WAS JESUS (Johnny Cash) « © '59 Johnny Cash Music » 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 with the basket please take it Lord he said And with just a five loaves and two little fishes five thousand had fish and bread Who was it everybody (it was Jesus) who was it everybody (it was Jesus) Who was it everybody (it was Jesus) it was Jesus Christ our Lord Now pay close attention little children it's somebody you ought to know It's all about a man that walked on earth nearly two thousand years ago Well he healed the sick and afflicted it and he raised 'em from the dead Then they nailed him on an old rugged cross and put thorns on his head Who was it everybody... Well they took him down and they buried him and after the third day When they came to his tomb where they knew he was gone Cause the stone was rolled away He's not here for he is risen the angel of the Lord then said And when they saw him walking with these nail-scared hands They knew he came back from the dead Who was it everybody... **********	BAD NEWS (John D. Loudermilk) « © '63 Acuff-Rose Music » Ha ha ha come on bad news ha ha Well bad news travels like wild fire goodnews travels slow They all call me Wildfire ha ha cause everybody knows I'm bad news everywhere I go Always gettin' in a trouble and leaving little girls that hate to see me go They tried to hang me in Oakland and the did in Francisco But I wouldn't choke I broke their rope and they had to let me go Cause I'm bad news everywhere I go Always gettin' in a trouble and leaving little girls that hate to see me go Now from north to south east to west the story is the same From one state to another I have to change my name Cause I'm bad news everywhere I go Always gettin' in a trouble and leaving little girls that hate to see me go [ dobro ] Well now I've picked peaches in Georgia I lumberjacked in Maine I've been hired fired and jailed in any town you can name Cause I'm bad news everywhere I go Always gettin' in a trouble and leaving little girls that hate to see me go **********
DADDY SANG BASS (Carl Perkins) « © '68 Cedarwood Publishing » I remember when I was a lad times were hard and things were bad But there's a silver lining behind every cloud Just poor people that's all we were tryin' to make a livin' out of black land dirt We'd get together in a family circle sing out loud Daddy sang bass (mama sang tenor Me and little brother would join right in there) Singin' seems to help a troubled soul One of these days and it won't be long I'll rejoin them in a song I'm gonna join the family circle at the throne No the circle won't be broken by and by Lord by and by Daddy sang bass (mama sang tenor Me and little brother would join right in there) in the sky Lord in the sky [ guitar ] Now I remember after work mama would call in all of us You could hear us singin' for a country mile Now little brother has done gone on but I'll rejoin him in a song We'll be together again up yonder in a little while Daddy sang bass... In the sky Lord in the sky **********	HE TURNED THE WATER INTO WINE (Johnny Cash) « © '68 House Of Cash » He turned the water into wine he turned the water into wine In the little Cana town the word went all around that he turned the water into wine Well he walked upon the Sea of Galilee he walked upon the Sea of Galilee Shouted far and wide he calmed the raging tide and walked upon the Sea of Galilee He turned the water into wine... He healed the leper and the lame he healed the leper and the lame He said go and tell no man but they shouted it through the land That he healed the leper and the lame He turned the water into wine... He fed the hungry multitude yes he fed the hungry multitude With a little bit of fish and bread they said everyone was fed He fed the hungry multitude He turned the water into wine... **********
TEN COMMANDMENTS (Lew De Witt) « © '68 American Cowboy Music » 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 task alone And then one day he looked away and thereby lay a stone God said write upon this stone these words I say to you And if you all obey my rules I'll see you safely through God opened Heaven's door and then He guided Moses' hands And then He said go and tell my children these are my commands Go and climb that mountain Moses climb that mountain now and pray Climb that mountain now and tell us what our Lord has had to say Thou shalt have no Gods before me is my great command And thou shalt not make any graven image by thy hand Thou shalt not take my name in vain if thou would guiltless be Remember thou to keep the sabbath day alone for me Honor thy father and thy mother and thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not commit adult'ry and thou shalt not steal Love thy neighbor as thyself and show thy neighbor peace Covet not thy neighbor's house nor anything that's his Go and climb that mountain... Moses showed these words of God to all the children then They pulled up stakes and headed out to find the promised land That Moses had described to them and told of comforts there The children of oppression thought they'd not find anywhere But they were soon to part from him and push alone awhile For it was never meant for him to walk that final mile The children cried if we must go on Moses without you Then talk to God just one more time and tell us what to do Go and climb that mountain... Thou shalt have no Gods before me... **********	BALLAD OF IRA HAYES (Peter La Farge) « © '63 Edward B.Marks Music » Ira Hayes Ira Hayes call him drunken Ira Hayes he won't answer anymore Not the whiskey drinking Indian nor the marine that went to war Gather round me people there's a story I would tell Bout a brave young Indian you should remember well From the land of the Pima Indians a proud and noble band Who farmed the Phoenix Valley in Arizona land Down their ditches for a thousand years the waters grew Ira's people's crops Till the white man stole their water right and their sparkling water stopped Now Ira's folks grew hungry and their land grew crops and weeds When war came Ira volunteered and forgot the white man's greed Call him drunken Ira Hayes... Well they battled up Iwo Jima Hill two hundred and fifty men But only 27 lived to walk back down again And when the fight was over and old glory raised Among the men who held it high was the Indian Ira Hayes Call him drunken Ira Hayes... Ira Hayes returned a hero celebrated through the land He was wined and speeched and honored everybody shook his hand But he was just a Pima Indian no water no home no chance At home nobody cared what Ira's done and when do the Indians dance Call him drunken Ira Hayes... Then Ira started drinking hard jail was often his home They let him raise the flag and lower it like you would throw a dog a bone He died drunk early one morning alone in the land he'd fought to save Two inches of water in a lonely ditch was the grave for Ira Hayes Call him drunken Ira Hayes... Yeah call him drunken Ira Hayes but his land is just as dry And his ghost is laying thirsty in the ditch where Ira died
WHAT'D I SAY (Ray Charles) « © '59 Progressive Music » Come on honey don't you treat me wrong come and love your daddy all night long Hey hey all right hey hey baby what'd I say See that girl with a diamond ring I know where she got that thing Hey hey all right hey hey baby what'd I say [ guitar - piano ] Oh yeah honey you're so fine baby you're so fine Honey you're so fine honey you're so fine Oh you're so fine hey hey all right hey hey baby what's I say See the gal with the rich dress on she can do that all night long Hey hey all right hey hey baby what'd I say When you see me in misery come on baby and stand by me Hey hey all right hey hey baby what'd I say Baby what'd I say right now what'd I say right now honey you're so fine **********	OH WHAT A GOOD THING WE HAD (Johnny Cash - June Carter) « © '67 Southwind Music » Sunshine and showers and everything comin' up daisies Oh what a good thing we had gone bad oh what a good thing we had Driveins and picnics end every day was Saturday Oh what a good thing we had gone bad oh what a good thing we had The whole wide world was jealous we wouldn't hear a thing they'd tell us Never did need any money everything was milk and honey Oh long walks by the river talkin' bout living together Oh what a good thing we had gone bad oh what a good thing we had [ piano - guitar ] Long weeks of waitin' and livin' for the day we marry Oh what a good thing we had gone bad oh what a good thing we had Happiness and laughter we found everything we were after Oh what a good thing we had gone bad oh what a good thing we had The whole wide world was jealous... Oh what a good thing we had gone bad oh what a good thing we had **********
JACKSON (Billy Ed Wheeler - Gaby Rogers) « © '65 Quartet Music » 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 Yeah I'm goin' to Jackson look out Jackson town Well go on down to Jackson go ahead and wreck your health Go play your hand you big talkin' man make a big fool of yourself Yeah go to Jackson go comb your hair and I'm gonna snowball Jackson see if I care When I breeze into that city people gonna stoop and bow All them women gonna make me teach 'em what they don't know how I'm goin' to Jackson you turn loose my coat Cause I'm goin' to Jackson goodbye that's all she wrote When they laugh at you in Jackson and I'll be dancin' on the pony keg When I'll lead you round town like a scalded hound With your tail tucked between your legs Yeah I'll go to Jackson you big talkin' man And I'll be waitin' in Jackson behind my Japan fan Well now 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 and that's a fact Yeah we're goin' to Jackson ain't never coming back Mhm we got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout Honey we've been talkin' bout Jackson ever since the fire went out **********	EVERYBODY LOVES A NUT (Jack Clement) « © '66 Jack Music » Everybody loves a nut the whole world loves a weirdo Brains are in a rut but everybody loves a nut [ piano ] There was a hermit named Fred who kept the dead horse in his cave And everyone said to Fred Fred how come you keep a dead horse in your cave and he said well (Everybody loves a nut the whole world loves a weirdo) Brains are in a rut but everybody loves a nut [ piano ] A columbia man named Frank had a tiger named Hank He tried to put Hank in his tank guess what happened to ol' Frank When they picked up the teets there and eyeballs and erected a tombstone that read (Everybody loves a nut... [ piano ] Another Columbia fella told queen Isabella I don't think the world is flat and now what do you think about that And she said you don't and he said no ma'm And she said he'd get out of my queendom and he said yes ma'm (Everybody loves a nut... Everybody loves a nut... *********
BOA CONSTRICTOR (Shel Silverstein) « © '66 Evil Eye Music » I'm getting swallowed by a Boa Constrictor By a Boa Constrictor by a Boa Constrictor I'm getting swallowed by a Boa Constrictor and I don't like snakes one bit What do you know he's swallowed my toe oh gee he's up to my knee Oh my he's up to my thigh oh yummy he's up to my tummy Oh fiddle he's up to my middle oh glum he's mashing my lungs Now look here snake I don't look good with this long tail on me It's all about I can say sneak except give me a break sneak My torso's cold and it's startin' to mould Boa Constrictor how much can you hold Oh yes he's up to my chest oh heck he's up to my neck Nearly all in he's up to my chin oh dread he's swallowed my...excuse me **********	FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA (Johnny Cash) « © '67 House Of Cash » The beautiful spacious skies the amber waves of grain To the majestic purple mountains above the fruited plain God did shed his grace from sea to shining sea on you and me From Sleepy Hollow mountain country to the swamps of Okefenokee To Guthrie Oklahoma to Hibbing Minnesota To Grants Pass Oregon to Stone Pipe Wells California From Texas to Montana from California to Maine In the sunny days the winter snow from Arizona sand To Cherokee North Carolina to Tarpen Springs Florida America it's time to be refreshed recalled to memory God did shed his grace on Thee from sea to shining sea The land is big the best is free sand and surf grass and tree from sea to shining sea (God shed his grace on me) And crown Thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea **********
DIRTY OLD EGG-SUCKING DOG (Jack Clement) « © '66 Jack Music » Well he's not very handsome to look at aw he's shaggy and he eats like a hog And he's always killin' my chickens that dirty old egg-sucking dog Egg-sucking dog I'm gonna stamp your head in the ground If you don't stay out of my henhouse you dirty old egg-sucking hound Now if he don't stop eatin' my eggs up though I'm not a real bad guy I'm goin' to take my rifle and send him to that great chicken house in the sky Egg-sucking dog you're always a hangin' around But you better stay out of my henhouse you dirty old egg-sucking hound **********	BUSTED (Harlan Howard) « © '62 Pamper Music » My bills are all due and the babies need shoes but I'm busted Cotton is down to a quarter a pound but I'm busted I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay A big stack of bills that gets bigger each day The county will haul my belongings away I'm busted [ guitar ] I went to my brother to ask for a loan I was busted I hate to beg like a dog for a bone but I'm busted My brother said there ain't a thing I can do My wife and my kids're all down with the flu And I was just thinking of calling on you I'm busted [ guitar ] Lord I'm no thief but a man can go wrong when he's busted The food that we canned last summer is gone and I'm busted The fields're all bare and the cotton won't grow Me and my family gotta pack up and go But I'll make a living the Lord only knows but I'm busted **********
FIVE FEET HIGH AND RISING (Johnny Cash) « © '59 Johnny Cash Music » How high is the water mama two feet high and rising How high is the water papa she said it's two feet high and rising But we can make it to the road in a homemade boat Cause that's the only thing we got left that'll float It's already over all the wheat and oats two feet high and rising How high is the water mama three feet high and rising How high is the water papa she said it's three feet high and rising Well the hives are gone I lost my bees chickens're sleepin' in the willow trees Cows in water up past their knees three feet high and rising How high is the water mama four feet high and rising How high is the water papa she said it's four feet high and rising Hey come look through the window pane The bus is coming gonna take us to the train Looks like we'll be blessed with a little more rain four feet high and rising How high is the water mama five feet high and rising How high is the water papa she said it's five feet high and rising Well the rails are washed out north of town we gotta head for higher ground We can't come back till the water goes down five feet high and rising Well it's five feet high and rising	WALL (Harlan Howard) « © '59 Cedarwood Publishing » There's a lot of strange men in cell Block 10 but the strangest of them all Was a friend of mine who spent his time starin' at the wall starin' at the wall In his hand was a note that his gal had wrote and it proves that crime don't pay Was the very same gal he robbed and stole for name in her weddin' day For name in her weddin' day As he looked at the wall so strong and tall I could hear him softly curse Nobody at all ever climbed that wall but I'm gonna be the first I'm gonna be the first Well a warden came by and said son don't try I'd hate to see you fall Cause there ain't no doubt they'll carry you out if you ever touch that wall If you ever touch that wall Well the years gone by since he made his try but I can still recall How hard he tried and the way he died but he never made that wall He never made that wall There's never been a man ever shook this can but I know a man who tried The newspaper called it a jailbreak plan but I know it was suicide I know it was suicide
ACCIDENTALY ON PURPOSE (George Jones - Darrell Edwards) « © '59 Glad Music » 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 hometown Accidentaly you've met him one evening and you say it was love at first sight Accidentaly on purpose you've married accidentaly on purpose for spite Cause I saw out cheatin' and runnin' around And I was just a fool with a heart of a clown Accidentaly you were mistaken that night accidentaly on purpose for spite [ guitar ] Cause I saw out cheatin'... **********	ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL (Ervin T. Rouse) « © '57 MCA Music » Looky yonder comin' comin' down that railroad track Hey looky yonder comin' comin' down that railroad track It's the Orange Blosom Special bringin' my baby back whooo [ harmonica ] Well I'm goin' down to Florida and get some sand in my shoes Or maybe Califorania and get some sand in my shoes I'll ride that Orange Blossom Special and lose these New York blues uhhuh [ sax ] (Say man when you're goin' back to Florida) When I go back to Florida I don't know don't reckon I ever will (Ain't you worried bout gettin' your nourishment in New York) Ah I don't care if I do die do die do die Hey talk about the ramblin' she's the fastest train on the line Take about the travelin' she's the fastest train on the line It's that Orange Blossom Special rollin' down the Seabord Line uhhuh **********
TENNESSEE FLAT TOP BOX (Johnny Cash) « © '61 Johnny Cash Music » In a little cabaret in a south Texas border town Sat a boy and his guitar and the people came from all around And all the girls from there to Austin Were slippin' way from home and puttin' jewelry in hock To take the trip to go and listen To the little dark haired boy that played The Tennessee Flat Top Box And he would play [ ac.guitar ] Well he couldn't ride a wrangle and he never cared to make a dime But give him his guitar and he'd be happy all the time And all the girls from nine to ninety Were snappin' fingers tappin' toes and beggin' him don't stop And hypnotized and fascinated By the little dark haired boy that played The Tennessee Flat Top Box And he would play [ ac.guitar ] Then one day he was gone and no one ever saw him round He vanished like the breeze and they forgot him in the little town But all the girls still dreamed about him And hung around the cabaret until the doors ware locked And then one day on the hitparade Was a little dark haired boy that played The Tennessee Flat Top Box And he would play [ ac.guitar ] **********	I STILL MISS SOMEONE (Johnny Cash - Ray Cash) « © '58 Johnny Cash Music » (I still miss someone) At my door the leaves are falling the cold wild wind will come Sweethearts walk by together and I still miss someone I go out on a party and look for a little fun But I find a darkened corner cause I still miss someone Though I never got over those blue eyes I see them everywehere I miss those arms that held me when all the love was there I wonder if she's sorry for leaving what we'd begun There's someone for me somewhere and I still miss someone [ guitar ] (I still miss someone) Though I never got over... (I still miss someone) RING OF FIRE (Merle Kilgore - June Carter) « © '62 Painted Desert Music » 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 and the flames went higher And it burns burns burns the ring of fire the ring of fire [ trumpet ] I fell into a burning ring of fire... The taste of love is sweet when hearts like ours meet I fell for you like a child oh but the fire went wild I fell into a burning ring of fire... I fell into a burning ring of fire... And it burns burns burns the ring of fire the ring of fire The ring of fire the ring of fire
LOADING COAL (Merle Travis) « © '60 Johnny Cash Music » 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 Loadin' coal loadin' coal I'm a double first cousin to a dad blamed mole Never get rich for to save my soul and forty 'leven years a loadin' coal loadin' coal Ain't never got acquainted with a dollar bill and I don't ever reckon that I ever will A dollar ain't made for a fellar I'm told that scoops up a livin' loadin' coal Loadin' coal loadin' coal... [ ac.guitar ] I cussed everything in the mining camp from a shovel and my pick to my carbide lamp But I know mighty well till I grow old I'll still be a cussin' but loadin' coal Loadin' coal loadin' coal... [ ac,guitar ] I know just as well as coal is black one of these days the mines were strike And I'll sit around starvin' till I'm finally told There's a nickel more a ton for loadin' coal Loadin' coal loadin' coal... ********** Ride this train to any little trail in the West you may find me riding alone late at night My poor old horse don't understand why I ride at night and sleep in the daytime Or why we ride in the bushes and hide every time I hear a noise Well that's all I've done for months now running and hiding You see my name is John Wesley Hardin no I'm not proud of the name anymore They say I've killed forty men they tell a lot of different stories about me Of course I guess I'm to blame for a lot of it I killed the first time when I was fifteen to save my life but then I had to do it again Then every bum in the country that was fast with the gun started lookin' for me They called me the fastest gun alive and I guess I was fast or I wouldn't be alive now I got to where I couldn't walk down a street or in a saloon Without some trigger-happy cowpoke Wantin' to prove he could outdraw old John Wesley Hardin Maybe I got a little bitter and didn't care whether I killed or not for a while And I never quite forgot when the authorities in Huntsville prison Dragged me up in the snow naked and horsewhipped me Well that's why I'm ridin' at night I want to go where no one has ever seen me Where I won't even have to wear a gun Maybe I'll settle down in a quiet little town somewhere Even get a job on the right side of the law who knows Maybe in a new town the people will let me forget	OLD DOC BROWN (Red Foley) « © '55 Copar Music » He was just an old country doctor in a little country town Fame and fortune had passed him by though we never saw him frown As day by day in his kindly way he'd serve us one and all Many a patient forgot to pay although Doc's fees were small Though he needed his dimes and there were times that he'd receive a fee He'd pass it onto some poor soul that needed it worse than he He had to sell his furniture couldn't pay his office rent So to a dusty room over a livery stable Doc Brown and his satchel went And on the hitchin' post at the kerb below to advertise his wares He nailed a little sign that read Doc Brown has moved upstairs And one day he didn't answer when they knocked upon his door Old Doc Brown was layin' down but his soul was no more They found him there in that old black suit on his face was a smile of content But all the money they could find on him was a quarter and a copper cent So they opened up his ledger and what they saw gave their hearts a pull Beside each debtor's name old Doc had write these words Paid In Full Old Doc should had a funeral fine enough for a king It's a ghastly joke our town was broke and no one could give a thing Cept Jones an undertaker he did mighty well Donated an old iron casket he had never been able to sell And the funeral procession it wasn't much for grace and pomp and the style But those wagon loads of mourners they stretched out for more than a mile We wanted to give him a monument we kinda figured we owed him one Cause he made our town a better place for all the good he'd done We pulled up that old hitchin' post where Doc had nailed a sign We'd painted it white and to all of us it certainly did look fine Now the rains and the snows have washed away our white trimmin's of paint There ain't nothin' left but Doc's own sign and that's gettin' pretty faint But you can still see that old hitchin' post as if in answer to our prayers Mutually tellin' the whole wide world Doc Brown has moved upstairs **********
I RIDE AN OLD PAINT (arr. Johnny Cash) « © '56 Southwind Music » I ride an old paint I lead an old Dan I'm off to Montan' for to throw the hooley ann They feed in the coulees they water in the draw Their tails're all matted their backs're all raw Ride around little dogies ride around slow the fiery and snuffy are raring to go [ strings ] Well Johns had two daughters and the song one went to Denver the other went wrong His young wife died in a poolroom fight But he tries to keep singing from morning till night Ride around little dogies ride around slow the fiery and snuffy are raring to go [ strings ] When I die take my saddle from the wall strap it my pony lead him out of the stall Throw my bones on his back turn our faces tothe west And we'll ride the prairie that we love the best Ride around little dogies ride around slow the fiery and snuffy are raring to go **********	BALLAD OF BOOT HILL (Carl Perkins) « © '59 Hill & Range Songs » Here lies less more four slugs from a forty-four no less no more Out in Arizona just south of Tucson where tumbleweeds tumble in search of a home There's a town they call Tombstone where the brave never cry They live by a sixgun by a sixgun they die It's been a long time now since the town was a boom The jailhouse is empty so's the Palace Saloon Just one look will tell you that this town was real A secluded old dirt road leads up to Boot Hill Walk up to the fence there and look at the view That's where they were hanging eighteen eighty two It's easy to see where the brave men have died Rope marks on the oak tree are now petrified At night when the moon shines so far away It gets mighty lonesome lookin' down on their graves There lies Billy Clanton never wanted to kill But he's there with the guilty way up on Boot Hill (Boot Hill) **********
DARK AS A DUNGEON (Merle Travis) « © '46 American Music » 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 your blood runs as black as the coal Where it's dark as a dungeon damp as the dew danger is double pleasures are few Where the rain never falls the sun never shines It's a dark as a dungeon way down in the mine Well it's many a man that I've seen in my day (uh huh no laughin' during this song please it's bein' recorded) Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard with his wine A man will have lust for the lure of the mine And pray when I'm dead and my ages shall roll That my body would blacken and turn into coal Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home and pity the miner digging my bones Where it's dark as a dungeon... **********	LONG BLACK VEIL (Marijohn Wilkin - Danny Dill) « © '59 Cedarwood Publishing » Ten years ago on a cold dark night someone was killed neath the town hall lights There were few at the scene but they all agreed That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me She walks these hills in a long black veil she visits my grave when the night winds wail Nobody knows nobody sees nobody knows but me The judge said son what is your alibi If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die I spoke not a word though it meant my life I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife Now the scaffold was high and eternity near She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans In a long black veil she cries o'er my bones She walks these hills... **********
CERTAIN KINDA HURTIN' (Johnny Cash) « © '68 House Of Cash » I've got a certain kind of hurtin' since you've gone I've got a pain I can't explain and it keeps on hanging on You were gone on morning and I held on tight But I went all to pieces later on that night