Hey Porter tab - johnny cash

From: kra9493@acf6.acf.nyu.edu
Subject: CRD: "Hey, Porter" - J. Cash
Date: 14 Jul 94 18:05:52 EST

Hey, Porter by Johnny Cash
(from "the Songs of Johnny Cash")

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Hey, Porter, Hey Porter! Would you tell me the time?
                                              A7          D7
How much longer will it be 'til we cross that Mason Dixon Line?
   G                 G             G               C
At daylight will you tell that engineer to slow it down;
                      G                     D7              G
Or better still, just stop the train 'cause I want to look around.


2. Hey, Porter! Hey Porter! What time did you say?
   How much longer will it be 'till I can see the light of day?
   When we hit Dixie will you tell that engineer to ring his bell;
   And ask everybody that ain't asleep to stand rightup and yell.

3. Hey, Porter! Hey Porter! It's getting light outside.
   This old train is puffin' smoke and I have to strain my eyes.
   But ask that engineer if he will blow his whistle please,
   'Cause I smell frost on cotton leaves, and I smell that Southern breeze.

4. Hey, Porter! Hey, Porter! Please get my bags for me,
   I need nobody to tell me now that we're in Tennessee.
   Go tell that engineer to make that lonesome whistle scream.
   We're not so far from home so take it easy on the steam.

5. Hey Porter! Hey Porter! Please open up my door.
   When they stop this train I'm gonna get off first 'cause I can't
      wait no more.
   Tell that engineer I say, "Thanks a lot. I didn't mind the fare.
   I'm gonna set my feet on Souther soil and breathe that Southern air."

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Video Hey Porter

Johnny Cash - Hey Porter
Johnny Cash - Hey Porter

Johnny Cash - Hey Porter 1980
Johnny Cash - Hey Porter 1980

Johnny Cash- Hey Porter 1961 version
This is from what i presume made around the same time as my Folsom Prison Blues upload. Good version too, maybe they were gonna make a album of re-recording (Not like the 1964 album, which in my opinion isn't the best re-recordings, too different sounding)

Johnny Cash- Hey Porter
John sings Hey Porter on the 25th Anniversary special February, 1980.

Johnny Cash - Hey Porter
From the Johnny Cash show, late 1969.