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 Down There By The Train
 Written by Tom Waits
 Published by Jalma Music Inc. ASCAP

           E           E7         A          E   
 There's a place I know where the train goes slow
                                       A            B7  
 Where the sinner can be washed in the blood of the lamb
           E            E7              A             
 There's a river by the trestle down by Sinner's Grove
                E              B7      A     E
 Down where the willow and the dogwood grow  

         A             E   A                E   
 You can hear the whistle, you can hear the bell
                   E7                     B7  
 From the halls of heaven to the gates of hell
             A                 E                      A   
 And there's room for the forsaken if you're there on time
           E                  E7       A                 
 You'll be washed of all your sins and all of your crimes

|          E                      
|If you're down there by the train
|B7                     
|Down there by the train
|E                      
|Down there by the train
|A                      
|Down there by the train
|E                          B7   E   
|Down there where the train goes slow

             E       E7     A                            E
 There's a golden moon that shines up through the mist   
                        E7 A                 B
 And I know that your name can be on that list
            E             E7           A                
 There's no eye for an eye, there's no tooth for a tooth
       E                       B7                  A
 I saw Judas Iscariot carrying John Wilkes Booth   
          
 He was...

 {chorus}

 If you've lost all your hope, if you've lost all your faith
 I know you can be cared for and I know you can be safe
 And all the shamefuls and all of the whores
 And even the soldier who pierced the side of the Lord
 Is...

 {chorus}

 Well, I've never asked forgiveness and I've never said a prayer
 Never given of myself, never truly cared
 I've left the ones who loved me and I'm still raising Cain
 I've taken the low road and if you've done the same
 Meet me...

 {chorus (twice)}

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Johnny Cash - The City of New Orleans [Music Video]
Cash plays "The City of New Orleans" in a Train. Riding on the City of New Orleans, Illinois Central, monday morning rail, fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders, three conductors, twenty-five sacks of mail. All along the southbound Odyssey the train pulls out of Kankakee and rolls along past houses, farms and fields, passing trains that have no name freight yards full of old black men and the graveyards of the rusted automobiles. Good morning America, how are ya? Say, don't you know me? I'm your native son. I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans, I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done. Dealin' cards to the old men in the club car, penny a point ain't no one keepin' score, pass the paper baq that holds the bottle, you can feel the wheels rumblin' neath the floor. The sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers ride their fathers' magic carpets made of steel mothers with their babes asleep are rockin' to the gentle beat and the rhythm of the rails is all they feel. Good morning America, how are ya? Say don't you know me, I'm your native son. I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans, I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done. Night-time on the City of New Orleans changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee halfway home, we'll be there by morning through the Mississippi darkness rollin' down to the sea. But all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream the steel rails still ain't heard the news the conductor sings his songs again: passengers will please refrain, this train's got the disappearin' railroad blues. Good night America, how are ya? Say, don't you know me? I'm your native son. I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans, I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

Cash Me Out (A Johnny Cash Tribute)
You can BUY 'Cash Me Out' here for $.87 http://bitmunk.com/media/6340426 The story here is, I wrote this song just prior to Johnny Cash's death. Producer Bob Johnston got hold of it, really liked the lyric though he 'didn't care as much' for the music. Anyway he optioned it and a whole lotta nothing happened soon thereafter --not to mention long thereafter too. Unfortunately, the great Johnny Cash passed away within weeks of my writing this. Tom Saputo put the music to the lyric. So at Bob's urging, I changed the lyric a bit to make it more of a retrospective. I've wanted to do a video for awhile and I'm glad that I finally did. The 'man walking on the horizon' is from Kris Kristofferson's magnificent 'This Old Road' video (c) 2005 which by the way is a great song too. Wow, Shel Silverstein and Kristofferson. That's when they really wrote songs! Cash Me Out (N. Ball/T. Saputo) Well he didn't have a fancy trill like lead singers of today. His soul just trembled in his throat and his gut would lead the way. His songs were drenched in sorrow like an Appalachian rain, full of hardluck times and tell-tale signs that tomorrow held more pain. Chorus: Cash me out today, we've lost ole Johnny. He's up and joined his precious angel June. If its darkest just before the light, don't it figure that the man-in-black could light the darkest room? While others tried to push their luck with the same ole' borrowed style, well he pushed himself from hell to hymn like a man on borrowed time. His voice had business with your soul in an eerie sort of way, not singing in the normal sense --more like God-come-down-to-play. Chorus: Cash me out today, we lost ole Johnny. He's up and joined his precious angel June. If its darkest just before the light, don't it figure that the man-in-black could light the darkest room? If prison is a holding cell for interrupted dreams, John woke 'em up one Folsom night to the sound of tracks and steam. Well I've heard that train come round the bend a million times or more. It built a station in my heart where a bar-stool was before. His Sunday mornings sobered up when John came down to the Lord. No better pilgrim walked this land nor preached a truer word. But he never laid it on too thick. He respected us too much. He just preached his heart and dropped the stick, an' he kept his common touch Chorus: Cash me out today, we lost ole Johnny he's up and joined his precious angel June if its darkest just before the light, don't it figure that the man-in-black could light the darkest room? Refrain: No ring of fire could ring him in. No straight line broke his stride No hammer beat him down for good No name could steal his pride The line he walked well that was our line too, though at times we couldn't see. 'Cause it takes a man to blaze a trail and set his brothers free. Chorus... Copyright 2003, Norman Ball

Johnny Cash cover
http://www.myspace.com/DVLH Zach V Johnny Cash cover http://www.lukehadley.com DVLH Johnny Cash, born J. R. Cash, (February 26, 1932 -- September 12, 2003) was a Grammy Award-winning American country singer-songwriter. Cash is widely considered to be one of the most influential American musicians of the 20th century. Cash was known for his deep, distinctive voice, the boom-chick-a-boom or "freight train" sound of his Tennessee Three backing band, his demeanor, and his dark clothing, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black". He traditionally started his concerts with the introduction "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." Much of Cash's music, especially that of his later career, echoed themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption. His signature songs include "I Walk the Line", "Folsom Prison Blues", "Ring of Fire", "That Old Wheel" (a duet with Hank Williams Jr.), "Cocaine Blues", and "Man in Black". He also recorded several humorous songs, such as "One Piece at a Time", "The One on the Right Is on the Left", "Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog" and "A Boy Named Sue"; rock-and-roll numbers such as "Get Rhythm"; and various railroad songs, such as "Rock Island Line" and "Orange Blossom Special". He sold over 90 million albums in his nearly fifty-year career and came to occupy a "commanding position in music history"From 1969 to 1971, Cash starred in his own television show, The Johnny Cash Show, on the ABC network. The singing group The Statler Brothers opened up for him in every episode. Other notable artists who appeared on his show included Neil Young, Louis Armstrong, James Taylor, Ray Charles and Bob Dylan. Cash had met with Dylan in the mid 1960s and became closer friends when they were neighbors in the late 1960s in Woodstock, New York. Cash was enthusiastic about reintroducing the reclusive Dylan to his audience. Cash sang a duet with Dylan on Dylan's country album Nashville Skyline and also wrote the album's Grammy-winning liner notes. Another artist who received a major career boost from The Johnny Cash Show was songwriter Kris Kristofferson. During a live performance of Kristofferson's "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down," Cash made headlines[citation needed] when he refused to change the lyrics to suit network executives, singing the song with its references to marijuana intact: "On the Sunday morning sidewalks / Wishin', Lord, that I was stoned." By the early 1970s, he had crystallized his public image as "The Man in Black." He regularly performed dressed all in black, wearing a long black knee-length coat. This outfit stood in contrast to the costumes worn by most of the major country acts in his day: rhinestone suit and cowboy boots. In 1971, Cash wrote the song "Man in Black" to help explain his dress code: "We're doing mighty fine I do suppose/In our streak of lightning cars and fancy clothes/But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back/Up front there ought to be a man in black." He and his band had initially worn black shirts because that was the only matching color they had among their various outfits.[2] He wore other colors on stage early in his career, but he claimed to like wearing black both on and off stage. He stated that, political reasons aside, he simply liked black as his on-stage color.[2] To this day, the United States Navy's winter blue service uniform is referred to by sailors as "Johnny Cashes," as the uniform's shirt, tie, and trousers are actually solid black in color.[6][7] In the mid 1970s, Cash's popularity and number of hit songs began to decline, but his autobiography (the first of two), titled Man in Black, was published in 1975 and sold 1.3 million copies. A second, Cash: The Autobiography, appeared in 1997. His friendship with Billy Graham led to the production of a movie about the life of Jesus, The Gospel Road, which Cash co-wrote and narrated. The decade saw his religious conviction deepening, and he made many public appearances in an evangelical capacity. He also continued to appear on television, hosting an annual Christmas special on CBS throughout the 1970s. Later television appearances included a role in an episode of Columbo. He also appeared with his wife on an episode of Little House on the Prairie entitled "The Collection" and gave a performance as John Brown in the 1985 Civil War television mini-series North and South. He was friendly with every U.S. President starting with Richard Nixon. He was probably closest with Jimmy Carter, who became a very close friend[2]. None of these friendships were about politics (although he supported the Democratic Party). He stated that he found all of them personally charming, noting the fact that it was probably essential to getting oneself elected.