Key: A major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I was just a boy in school 1954
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I heard Johnny singin' on my Sears radio
I wouldn't do my schoolwork then
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nor join in schoolyard games
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I'd sit there by the radio so
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I could hear him sing
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Hey porter,
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
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There ain't nothin' in this little
town that a boy like me can do
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So if you're goin' to Folsom
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Prison I want to go there too
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I shot
Verse 3
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a man in Reno
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just to watch him die
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Verse 4
I tried to learn the guitar blues
to ease my troubled mind
But Johnny kept a movin'
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and I kept wastin' time
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He was somewhere down Big
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River but all that I could see
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Was west Pico Boulevard and
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that's what tortured me
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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
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Johnny Cash will never die
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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his voice still calls to me
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Hey porter hey porter was
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what I heard him say
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On my Sears and Roebuck radio
Outro 1
Pasadena KXLA.
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