Ode to Johnny Cash - BURNING THINGS

Burning Things (previously the Julian Assange Experience) performing their song Ode to Johnny Cash live at the Difficult Music Festival's Great Songbooks: Johnny Cash night at Ching-a-Lings in Darlinghurst, Sydney on Tuesday 9th August 2011.

If you think this video looks dark, it's actually been brightened, it was way darker in the venue on the night.

In case you can't hear all the words here's the lyrics:


ODE TO JOHNNY CASH

Johnny Cash Johnny Cash
oh I wish you'd come back
You're my heart and my sole rolled in one
But when you heard that freight train coming
Well you just gave up your stummin'
Johnny Cash your final song it's been sung

Well you sang for the broken,
the battered and the bruised
You sang their songs of hope and despair
You raised you're mighty voice
for the ones that had no choice
You stood up when no one else was there
 

Well you sang from the heart
And you fought from the start
For prisoners that where yarning for release
You fought so they could see
What it means to be free
In a world that's clear of jail walls and police

Johnny Cash Johnny Cash
oh I wish you'd come back
You're my heart and my sole rolled in one
But when you heard that freight train coming
Well you just gave up your stummin'
Johnny Cash your final song it's been sung

You sang of friends apart
Of woes and broken hearts
You sang of folk longing to be free
In the darkness before dawn
In the cold before the storm
Your mournful tunes come flowing back to me
Now you're cold in the ground
with the worms all around
Johnny Cash your final song its now gone
But you lived your life so tall
With a song for one and all
Your voice it will live on and on and on

Johnny Cash Johnny Cash
oh I wish you'd come back
You're my heart and my sole rolled in one
But when you heard that freight train coming
Well you just gave up your stummin'
Johnny Cash your final song it's been sung x4

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