Key: A major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I was just a boy in school 1954
I wouldn't do my schoolwork then
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I could hear him sing
Verse 2
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hey porter would you tell me the time
I want to get on board John
I want to ride your train
I don't care where you're goin'
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long as it ain't where I been
town that a boy like me can do
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Prison I want to go there too
Verse 3
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a man in Reno
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I tried to learn the guitar blues
to ease my troubled mind
But Johnny kept a movin'
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He was somewhere down Big
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River but all that I could see
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Verse 5
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And I followed you Big River when you called
Interlude 1
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Verse 6
buddy can't you see
He's up there with the Tennessee
Two for all eternity
But sometimes in the dark of night
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what I heard him say
Outro 1
Pasadena KXLA.
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