Artist/Band: Original Artist Tabs
Song: 'untitled' J. Cash Tribute Song Tab
I got an email from that Paramount Group thing in Nashville about some Johnny
Cash tribute contest, ideas started floatin' so I wrote em down, let me know
what you think......
I have no experience writing lyrics at all, I just wrote the words as they hit
my head :) not so much about Cash, as a story about how his songs were a part
of my life and incorporated his song titles into the lyrics.
Untitled JCash tribute song
Written by Bart Raboin - 10/03
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Try as he might, I wasn't answerin' my door,
I knew a fulldays work was waitin on the other side,
He'd yell, 'wake up lightnin!' but I sure wasn't all that quick.
I hit the Nightlife on Friday and cursed those Cocaine Blues,
Daddy'd say he's a Worried Man, tellin' me to Walk the Line,
then he grabbed his old guitar, cuz he knew it'd do the trick...
I woke up to the Man in Black, and saw folsom prison in those fields,
he sang loud and a bit off key, but it Unchained me from my sleep
The songs got us to Drive On, another day a little further on.
I didn't know then but I realize now,
it was my daddy's way of dealin, with the pain.
A Country Boy made of Flesh and Blood, and my momma his One Rose,
She was a Spritual and loving soul, did her best to keep us close,
A Rowboat was my brother's rocket ship, chasin' Riders in the Sky,
It's where I helped build a family home One Piece at a Time.
These days it feels like I've Been Everywhere
But there's still a place where my mind goes back home,
"pick it."
*solo*
I woke up to the Man in Black, and saw folsom prison in those fields,
he sang loud and a bit off key, but it Unchained me from my sleep
The songs got us to Drive On, another day a little further on.
I didn't know then but I realize now,
it was my daddy's way of dealin, with the pain.
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quick fade to background strumming
..at end of song:
(normal speech)
I'm a bit older now, and my dad, he's still around. Once and a while When the
Man Comes Around, we'll sit down and play those songs, rememberin
back.....*fade in a crappy recording of dad singing and playing his old
guitar* then fade out......"Alright alright, I'm up......whatta we got to do
today?.." end on one final chord strum and maybe the old man laughin or some
quick quirp
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