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Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash
Genre: Rock & Roll
Year: 1968
Year: 1968
"Folsom Prison Blues" is an American country music song by Johnny Cash. The song combines elements from two popular folk genres, the train song and the prison song, both of which Cash would continue to use for the rest of his career. It became one of Cashs signature songs.
In the lyrics, the jailed protagonist listens to the whistle of a train outside his cell and recounts his crimes ("I shot a man in Reno/just to watch him die"), imagines the free people inside the train ("Theyre probably drinking coffee and smoking big cigars") and dreams of what he would do if he were free. "I know I had it coming/I know I cant be free," sings the imprisoned man. "But those people keep amoving/and that's what tortures me." Read full article at wikipedia.org
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More songs by Johnny Cash: Ghost riders in the sky, Home of the Blues, The Ballad of Boot Hill, Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone), I'm Free From the Chain Gang Now.
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