Folsom Prison Blues Live

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I hear the train a-comin. It‘s rollin round the bend, and I ain‘t seen 
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the sunshine since I don‘t know when. I‘m stuck in Folsom Prison, and 
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time keeps draggin on. But that train keeps a-rollin on down the San 
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Antone. When I was just a baby, my mama told me, son, always be a good 
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boy, don‘t ever play with guns, but I shot a man in Reno just to watch 
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him die. When I hear that whistle blowin, I hang my head and cry. 
 
I‘ll bet there‘s rich folks eatin on a fancy dinin car. They‘re probly 
drinkin coffee and smokin big cigars, well, I know I had it comin, I 
know I can‘t be free, but those people keep a-movin, and that‘s what 
tortures me. Well, if they free me from this prison, if that railroad 
train was mine, I bet I‘d move it on a little farther down the line, far 
from Folsom Prison. That‘s where I want to stay. And I‘d let that 
lonesome whistle blow my blues away.