Listen to Cocaine Blues by Johnny Cash

Cocaine Blues

Johnny Cash

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Cocaine Blues (Live at Folsom State Prison, Folsom, CA - January 1968)

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Johnny Cash

Vocals

J. Hensley

Electric Guitar

Bob Wootton

Electric Guitar

Ricky Skaggs

12-String Guitar

Charles Cochran

Charles Cochran

Piano

Jack Routh

Electric Guitar

Brian Ahern

Percussion

W.S. Holland

Drums

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

T.J. Arnall

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Brian Ahern

Producer

Billy Sherrill

Engineer

Harold Lee

Engineer

Donivan Cowart

Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Early one morning, while making the rounds

Took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down

Went right home and I went to bed

I stuck that lovin' .44 beneath my head

[Verse 2]

Got up next morning and I grabbed that gun

Took a shot of cocaine and away I run

Made a good run, but I ran too slow

The overtook me down in Juarez, Mexico

[Verse 3]

Late in the hot joints takin' the pills

In walked the sheriff from Jericho Hill

He said, "Willy Lee, your name is not Jack Brown"

You're the dirty heck that shot your woman down

[Verse 4]

Said, "Yes sir, my name is Willy Lee"

If you've got a warrant, just a-read it to me

Shot her down because she made me slow

I thought I was her daddy, but she had five more

[Verse 5]

When I was arrested, I was dressed in black

They put me on a train and they took me back

I had no friends for to go my bail

They slapped my dried up carcass in that county jail

[Verse 6]

Got up next morning 'bout a half past nine

I spied the sheriff coming down the line

Hocked and he coughed as he cleared his throat

He said come on you dirty hop into that district court

[Verse 7]

Into the courtroom, my trial began

Where I was handled by twelve honest men

Just before the jury started out

I saw the little judge commence to look about

[Verse 8]

In about five minutes, in walked the man

Holding the verdict in his right hand

The verdict read murder in the first degree

I hollered lawdy, lawd, have a mercy on me

[Verse 9]

The judge, he smiled as he picked up his pen

Ninety-nine years in the Folsom pen

Ninety-nine years underneath that ground

I can't forget the day I shot my woman down

[Verse 10]

Come on you hops and listen unto me

Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be

Written by: T.J. Arnall

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