Research Catalog

Title

Johnny Cash, the songs / edited by Don Cusic.

Author

Cash, Johnny.

Publication

New York : Thunder's Mouth Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.?] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2004?]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Arnette, Andrew J., Jr.
• Atkins, Jimmy
• Carter, Anita.
• Carter, Ezra J.
• Carter, Maybelle, 1909-1978.
• Cash, John Carter.
• Cash, June Carter, 1929-2003.
• Cash, Roy, Jr.
• Cusic, Don.
• Johnson, Hoyt.
• Routh, Jack W.
• Winston, Nat T.

Description

lvi, 326 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

A collection of lyrics to Johnny Cash's songs accompanied by an overview of his life and an essay on his music.

Uniform Title

Songs. Texts. Selections

Alternative Title

Songs.

Subject

• Country music > Texts
• Songs > Texts

Genre/Form

Texts.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [liii]) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• God 1 -- Cowboys, Indians, and Outlaws 55 -- Railroads and Trains 83 -- Prisons and Prisoners 101 -- Soldiers and Wars 117 -- Patriot 127 -- People 139 -- Music 173 -- Places 187 -- Growing Up Country 209 -- Travelin' 223 -- Love Gone Right 233 -- Love Gone Wrong 263 -- The Man In Black 295.
• God. Lead me father (My prayer) ; It was Jesus ; Land of Israel ; Belshazzar ; Matthew 24 (is knocking at the door) ; Another wide river to cross ; Half a mile a day ; My children walk in truth ; One of these days I'm gonna sit down and talk to Paul ; All of God's children ain't free ; Nazarene ; The Christmas spirit ; The gifts they gave ; We are the shepherds ; Who kept the sheep? / Johnny Cash, Ezra Carter ; I'm gonna try to be that way ; He'll be a friend ; I call him / J. Cash, R[oy] Cash ; Praise the Lord ; I see men walking as trees ; Jesus was a carpenter ; Christmas with you ; When he comes ; I'm a newborn man / J. Cash, J.C.^
• Cash ; Wings in the morning ; Over the next hill ; What on earth will you do (for Heaven's sake) ; The greatest cowboy of them all ; Welcome back Jesus ; The preacher said, "Jesus said" ; Come to the wailing wall ; He turned the water into wine ; God is not dead ; Beautiful words ; No earthly good ; Redemption ; Billy & Rex & Oral & Bob ; You'll get yours, I'll get mine ; Field of diamonds / J. Cash, J[ack] W. Routh ; Meet me in Heaven ; The man comes around -- Cowboys, indians, and outlaws. The flint arrowhead ; Don't take your guns to town ; Who's Gene Autry? ; Hank and Joe and me ; You wild Colorado ; Mean as hell ; Big foot ; Hiawatha's vision ; Reflections ; Ned Kelly ; Old Apache squaw ; Hardin wouldn't run ; The talking leaves ; Trail of tears ; Apache tears ; My cowboy's last ride ; Slow rider ; Navajo --^
• Railroads and trains. The legend of John Henry's hammer ; Come and ride this train (medley) ; Locomotive man ; Ridin' on the cotton belt ; Hey, porter ; Southwind ; Daughter of a railroad man ; Train of love ; Let the train whistle blow -- Prisons and prisoners. The walls of a prison ; Folsom prison blues ; Send a picture of mother ; Dear Mrs. / J. Cash, Andrew J. Arnette, Jr. ; Austin prison ; City jail ; San Quentin ; This side of the law ; Michigan City howdy do ; Jacob Green -- Soldiers and wars. Route #1, Box 144 ; A croft in Clachan (The ballad of Rob MacDunn) ; The big battle ; Like a soldier -- Patriot. These are my people ; Sold out of flagpoles ; Ragged old flag ; Singin' in Viet nam talkin' blues ; Drive on --^
• People. Give my love to Rose ; My old faded rose / J. Cash with June Carter ; Call daddy from the mine ; The frozen four-hundred-pound fair-to-middlin' cotton picker ; The masterpiece ; The timber man ; You and Tennessee ; Cisco Clifton's fillin' station ; The ballad of Barbara ; Abner Brown ; The matador / J. Cash with June Carter ; The caretaker ; Dorraine of Ponchartrain ; Calilou ; Smiling Bill McCall ; Rock 'n' roll Ruby ; Face of despair ; Tiger Whitehead / J. Cash with N.T. Winston ; I got a boy (and his name is John) ; Miss Tara ; The little man ; The ballad of Annie Palmer ; For the cowboy (Jack Clement) ; Cindy, I love you -- Music. I hardly ever sing beer-drinking songs ; Please don't play Red River Valley ; I will rock and roll with you ; I'm gonna' sit on the porch and pick on my own guitar ; Luther's boogie ; When papa played the dobro ; Rockabilly blues (Texas 1955) ; Another song to sing ; Tenessee flattop box ; Get rhythm ; Sing it pretty Sue --^
• Places. The whirl and the suck ; From sea to shining sea ; Going to Memphis ; Big river ; Strawberry cake ; Destination Victoria Station ; Shamrock doesn't grow in California ; Committed to Parkview ; Down and Drippin' Springs ; Saturday night in Hickman County ; If it wasn't for the Wabash River ; Forty shades of green ; Shantytown / J. Cash with June Carter -- Growing up country. Five feet high and rising ; Country boy ; Pickin' time ; The man on the hill ; Country trash ; Cotton-pickin' hands / J. Cash with J. Carter ; Don't step on mother's roses ; Mountain lady ; No, no, no -- Travelin'. This town ; Wide open road ; Rollin' free ; Hit the road and go ; Tell him I'm gone ; Hungry --^
• Love gone right ; I walk the line ; You dreamer you (Oh, what a dream) ; Flesh and blood ; You beat all I ever saw ; I'd rather have you ; All over again ; Come in, stranger ; What do I care ; I'm alright now ; Drink to me ; W-o-m-a-n ; I'll say it's true ; I'll remember you ; Kentucky straight ; You've got a new light shining in your eyes ; You remembered me ; Run softly blue river ; Happiness is you / J. Cash, J. Carter ; Cause I love you ; You're the nearest thing to Heaven / J. Cash, Jimmy Atkins, Hoyt Johnson ; My treasure ; Straight A's in love ; The baby is mine ; You're my baby (Little woolly booger) --^
• Love gone wrong. Understand your man ; I'm leaving now ; A certain kind of hurtin' ; I still miss someone / J. Cash, Roy Cash, Jr. ; Lately ; Hurt so bad ; She's a go-er ; The wind changes ; Time and again / J. Cash, J. Carter ; Lonesome to the bone ; Cold lonesome morning ; It comes and goes ; Too little, too late ; So doggone lonesome ; You will be all right / J. Cash, J. Cater ; Oh what a good thing we had / J. Cash, J. Carter ; Cry, cry, cry ; After the ball ; Lady ; It's all over ; I do believe ; Port of lonely hearts ; Mean-eyed cat ; Two-timin' woman ; There you go ; Don't make me go ; Next in line ; How did you get away from me / J. Cash, J. Carter, A. Carter --^
• The man in black. Man in black ; What is truth? ; Put my sugar to bed / J. Cash, Mother Maybelle Carter ; Shrimpin' sailin' ; A Wednesday car ; The world's gonna fall on you ; Little green fountain / J. Cash, J.C. Cash ; Little magic glasses ; Dinosaur song / J. Cash, J.C. Cash ; Water from the wells of home / J. Cash, John Carter Cash ; Go on blues ; Leave that junk alone ; Thunderball ; Before my time.

ISBN

156025629X

LCCN

^^2004304366

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library