Listen to Cocaine Blues (Live) by Johnny Cash

Cocaine Blues (Live)

Johnny Cash

Country

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OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Music Video

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

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Johnny Cash

Vocals

Luther Perkins

Electric Guitar

W.S. Holland

Drums

Marshall Grant

Bass

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

T.J. Arnall

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Bob Johnston

Producer

Bob "Groovus" Breault

Bob "Groovus" Breault

Live Recording Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Early one morning while making 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 loving .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 run too slow

They overtook me down in Juarez, Mexico

[Verse 3]

Laid in the hot joints taking the pill

In walked a sheriff from Jericho Hill

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

You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down

[Verse 4]

Say, yes oh yes, my name is Willy Lee

If you've got a warrant just 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

Had no friend for to go my bail

They slapped my dried up carcass in that county jail

[Verse 6]

Early next morning 'bout half past nine

I spied a sheriff coming down the line

Coughed and he coughed as he cleared his throat

He said, "Come on your dirty hack into that district court"

[Verse 7]

Into the court room, my trial began

Where I was handled by twelve honest men

Just before the jury started out

I saw that little judge commence to look about

[Verse 8]

In about five minutes, in walked a man

Holding the verdict in his right hand

The verdict read in the first degree

I hollered, "Lordy, Lordy, have 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 today, I shot that bad bitch down

[Verse 10]

Come on, you gotta listen unto me

Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be

Written by: Troy Junius Arnall