Stuart Hamblen

Memories/Nostalgia

Inspirational

Love

Weather

Country and Western

1957

When you're all alone and blue
No one to tell your troubles to
Remember me, I'm the one who loves you

When this world has turned you down
And not a true friend can be found
Remember me, I'm the one who loves you

And through all kinds of weather
You'll find I'll never change
Through the sunshine and the shadows
I'll always be the same

We're together right or wrong
Where you go I'll tag along
Remember me, I'm the one who loves you

(And through all kinds of weather
You'll find I'll never change)
Through the sunshine and the shadows
I'll always be the same

We're together right or wrong
Where you go I'll tag along
Remember me, I'm the one who loves you
Remember me, I'm the one who loves you

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Johnny Cash

Baby/Children

Money

Sadness

Country and Western

1965

I'd sing more about more of this land But all God's children ain't free
I'd open up ev'ry door I can
'Cause all God's children ain't free

I met a beaten broken man
He shovels dirt, but got no land
And he held out his hand to me
All God's children ain't free

I'd sing along to a silly song
But all God's children ain't free
I'm gonna sing the blues for the men they done wrong
'Cause all God's children ain't free
Mister how bout the man you condemn to die
By taking ev'rything that he's livin' by
And reject him from society
All God's children ain't free
Naw reject him from society
All God's children ain't free

I'd be happy walkin' any street
But all God's children ain't free
I'd have a smile for all I meet
But all God's children ain't free
I'd whistle down the road, but I wouldn't feel right
I'd hear somebody cryin' out at night
From a sharecropper shack or penitentiary
All God's children ain't free
From a sharecropper shack or penitentiary
All God's children ain't free

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Johnny Cash

Love

Memories/Nostalgia

Dreams

Country and Western

Rock 'n' Roll

1958

Every time I look at you I fall in love, all over again
Every time I think of you it all begins, all over again

One little dream at night and I can dream all day
It only takes a memory to thrill me
One little kiss from you and I just fly away
Pour me out your love until you fill me

I wanna fall in love beginning from the start, all over again
Show me how you stole away my heart, all over again

One little dream at night and I can dream all day
It only takes a memory to thrill me
One little kiss from you and I just fly away
Pour me out your love until you fill me

I wanna fall in love beginning from the start, all over again
Show me how you stole away my heart, all over again

All over again, all over again, all over again, all over again

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Craig Starrett

Baby/Children

Memories/Nostalgia

Country and Western

1959

When I'm alone I often think of an ol' house on the hill
Of a big yard hedged in roses where we ran and played at will
And when the night time brought us home, hushing our merry den
Mother would look around and ask, are all the children in

Well it's been many a year now and the ol' house on the hill
No longer has my mother's care and the yard is still, so still
But if I listen I can hear it all, no matter how long it's been
I seem to hear my mother ask, are all the children in

And I wonder when the curtain falls, on that last earthly day
When we say goodbye to all of this, to our pain and work and play
When we step across the river, where mother so long has been
Will we hear ask her a final time, are all the children in (I come)

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Johnny Cash

Memories/Nostalgia

Places

Country and Western

1966

They had a warrant out for me all over the country
And I was tryin' to beat two raps in Idaho
I was breakin' into a schoolhouse Sunday mornin' without warnin'
When I saw the sheriff comin' for me slow from down below

His steel grey eyes were blazing when he saw me
His hand was on his gun when he rode up
He said you killed that woman I know you shot her why'd you do it
I'm takin' you to Austin and I'm gonna lock you up

Well he tied me with a plow line the next mornin'
And he had me deep in Texas the next day
A crazy screamin' lynch mob waited in the streets of Austin
But he put me in the jailhouse and he threw the key away

A jury found me guilty three months later
Twelve evil men with murder in their eye
They even took me out and said now show us where you killed her
And that wicked judge said now I here by sentence you to die

But here I am far away from Austin prison
My friend the jailer handed me a file
Now all I want between me and there are a lot of friendly people
And miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles

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Johnny Cash

Weather

Country/Nature

Places

Memories/Nostalgia

Sadness

Country and Western

Rock 'n' Roll

1957

Now I taught the weeping willow how to cry
And I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky
And the tears that I cried for that woman are gonna flood you Big River
Then I'm gonna sit right here until I die

I met her accidentally in St. Paul, Minnesota
And it tore me up every time I heard her drawl, southern drawl
Then I heard my dream was back downstream cavortin' in Davenport
And I followed you Big River when you called

Then you took me to St Louis later on down the river
A freighter said she's been here but she's gone, boy she's gone
I found her trail in Memphis, but she just walked up the block
She raised a few eyebrows and then she went on down alone

Now won't you batter down by Baton Rouge River Queen roll it on
Take that woman on down to New Orleans, New Orleans
Go on I've had enough, dump my blues down in the gulf
She loves you Big River more than me

Now I taught the weeping willow how to cry
And I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky
And the tears that I cried for that woman are gonna flood you Big River
Then I'm gonna sit right here until I die

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Johnny Cash

Transport

Sadness

Country and Western

1962

There's an engine at the station and the whistle calls my name
It's callin' callin' callin' come and get aboard the train
My baby's gone and I'm alone to live in misery
I'm gonna call and make a reservation for me

Gonna ride a blue train, gonna ride a blue train
Gonna ride a blue train, gonna ride a blue train

I'm gonna climb aboard and ride until I learn to smile
I'll be knockin' out the blues while I'm knockin' out the miles
With my guitar beatin' rhythm to the click-clack of the wheels
I'm gonna sing the blues cause that's the way that I feel

Gonna ride a blue train, gonna ride a blue train
Gonna ride a blue train, gonna ride a blue train

Conductor go and tell the man to shovel on the coal
It doesn't seem as half as bad as long as I can roll
Give me another ticket and I'll stay and ride with you
There's nothin' left to live for in this world we're rollin' through

Gonna ride a blue train, gonna ride a blue train
Gonna ride a blue train, gonna ride a blue train

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Johnny Cash

Body

Country/Nature

Sadness

Country and Western

1965

Oh bury me not on the lone prairie'
These words came low and mournfully'
From the pallid lips of a youth who lay'
On the bloody ground at the close of day

Oh bury me not and his voice failed there'
But we took no heed to his dying prayer
In a narrow grave just six by three'
We've buried him there on the lone prairie

Oh bury me not on the lone prairie'
Where the coyotes howl and the wind blows free
Where there's not a soul that will care for me'
Oh bury me not on the lone prairie

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Johnny Cash

Names

Memories/Nostalgia

Places

Transport

Country and Western

1963

Come all you rounders if you wanna hear
The story about a brave engineer
Casey Jones was the roller's name
On a 68 wheeler course he rode to fame

Caller called Casey bout half past four
He kissed his wife at the station door
He climbed in the cabin with his orders in his hand
Said this is the trip to the Promised Land

Casey Jones climbed in a cabin
Casey Jones orders in his hand
Casey Jones leanin' out the window
Taking a trip to the Promised Land

Through South Memphis Yards on a fly
Rain been a fallin' and the water was high
Everybody knew by the engine's moan
That the man at the throttle was Casey Jones

Well Jones said fireman now don't you fret
Sam Webb said I ain't a givin' up yet
We're eight hours late with the southbound mail
We'll be on time or we're leavin' the rails

Casey Jones climbed in a cabin
Casey Jones orders in his hand
Casey Jones leanin' out the window
Taking a trip to the Promised Land

Dead on the rail was a passenger train
Blood was a boilin' in Casey's brain
Casey said hey now look out ahead
Sam jump, Sam jump or we'll all be dead

With a hand on a whistle and a hand on a brake
North Mississippi was wide awake
I see railroad official said
He's a good engineer to be a laying dead

Casey Jones climbed in the cabin
Casey Jones orders in his hand
Casey Jones leanin' out the window
Taking a trip to the Promised Land

Headaches and heartaches and all kind of pain
Are all the part of a railroad train
Sweat and toil, the good and the grand
Are part of the life of a railroad man

Casey Jones climbed in the cabin
Casey Jones orders in his hand
Casey Jones leanin' out the window
Taking a trip to the Promised Land

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Jan Howard

June Carter Cash

Memories/Nostalgia

Christmas/Seasonal

Money

Country and Western

1963

[Spoken:]
One day near Christmas, when I was just a child
Mama called us together, and Mama tried to smile
She said you know the cotton crop hasn't been too good this year
There's just no spending money and well at least we're all here
I hope you won't expect a lot of Christmas presents
Just be thankful that there is plenty to eat
That's quite a blessing, it'll make things a little more pleasant

And us kids got to thinking how really blessed we were
At least we were all healthy and best of all we had her
Roy cut down a pig-apple tree and we drug it home, Jack and me
Daddy killed a squirrel and Louise made the bread
Reba decorated the tree with popcorn strings before we went to bed

Mama and Daddy sacrificed cause this Christmas was lean
But after all there was the babies Tom and Joanne, babies need a few things
I whittled a whistle for my brother Jack and though we fought now and then
When I gave Jack that whistle, he knew I thought the world of him
Mama made the girls' dresses out of flower sacks
And when she ironed them down, you couldn't tell that they hadn't come from town

A sharecropper family across the road didn't have it as good as us
They didn't even have a light and it was way past dusk
And Mama said why I bet they don't even have coal oil or beans to boil
Let alone apples and oranges and such

Me and Jack took a jar of coal oil and some hickory nuts we'd found
We walked over to the sharecropper's porch and set 'em down
A poor ol' ragged lady eased open the door
She picked up the coal oil and hickory nuts and said
I sure do thank ye and quickly closed the door

We started back home me and Jack and about halfway we stopped and looked back
And in the sharecropper's window at last was a light
So for one of the neighbors and for us it was a good Christmas night

Christmas came and Christmas went Christmas that year was heaven sent
Then Daddy put on his gumboots, waited for the thaw, back home in Dyess, Arkansas

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Billy Mize

Buddy Mize

Names

Memories/Nostalgia

Love

Sadness

Country and Western

1959

(Oh my darling Clementine)

She knew that Cody was the man she wanted
But she had waited nearly all her life
Just one more trip to town, to tell the boys goodbye
Then he'd be back to take her for his wife
(Don't you worry) Clementine

Cody saddled up and left his darlin'
Then rode to town to celebrate his plan
He told 'em this would be his last carousin'
I'm gonna settle down boys if I can
(With my darling) Clementine

Someone said it must have been past midnight
When Cody had to face a jealous man
Another story goes that no one really knows
But it seems there was a dancehall girl called Nan
(Don't you tell) Clementine

We do know that a shot or two was heard from some back room
Then there was a silence in the place
Just one more trip to town, but all his chips were down
They found Cody lyin' on his face
(Softly callin') Clementine

So buddies make a monument to lay down at his head
Sure you hate to leave your pal behind
Mother help your daughter, put her weddin' dress away
Cause Cody won't be ridin' back this time
(To his darlin') Clementine

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Johnny Cash

Happiness

Country/Nature

Places

Country and Western

Rock 'n' Roll

1957

Country boy, ain't got no shoes
Country boy, ain't got no blues
Well, you work all day
While you're wantin' to play
In the sun and the sand
With a face that's tan
At the end of the day
When your work is done
You ain't got nothin' but fun

Country boy, ain't got no ills
Country boy, don't owe no bills

You get a wiggly worm
And then you watch him squirm
While you put him on a hook
And you drop him in a brook
If everything's gonna turn out right
You're gonna fry fish tonight

Country boy, you're lucky free
Country boy, I wish I was you and you was me

Country boy, you got work to do
Country boy, in the morning dew
You gotta cut the wheat
You gotta plant the seads
There's many a row
You know you gotta hoe
When it's quittin' time
And your work is through
There's a lot of life in you

Country boy, you got a shaggy dog
Country boy, up a holler log
Well, he comes in a run
When you pick up your gun
And with a shell or two
And your dog and you
When you get your rabbit
You'll skin his hide
He's gonna be good fried

Country boy, you gotta a lot to loose
Country boy, how I wish I was in your shoes

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