folsom prison

great cover keb mo there was some disscussion about changing words read this

I hear the train a-comin, it's rolling 'round the bend

And I ain't been kissed lord since I don't know when
The boys in Crescent City don't seem to know I'm here
That lonesome whistle seems to tell me, Sue, disappear

When I was just a baby my mama told me, Sue,
When you're grown up I want that you should go and see and do
But I'm stuck in Crescent City just watching life mosey by
When I hear that whistle blowin', I hang my head and cry

I see the rich folks eatin' in that fancy dining car
They're probably having pheasant breast and eastern caviar
Now I ain't crying envy and I ain't crying me
It's just that they get to see things that I've never seen

If I owned that lonesome whistle, if that railroad train was mine
I bet I'd find a man a little farther down the line
Far from Crescent City is where I'd like to stay
And I'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away...Crescent City Blues, Gordon Jenkins (1954)

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[thebluesrockers]

this is the very best version of this song I've ever heard, sorry Johny Cash fans, but this is the best.

[chiledoug]

@thebluesrockers im a big cash fan but i like this alot

[chiledoug]

read my adde info on this tune

[chiledoug]

written 2 years before in 1954 folsom prison blues was written in 1956..i believe

[chiledoug]

thank you for your comment....i realize that this was not a blues ...song but. it is being played that way in this version...long tradition in blues to change lyrics..have you seen shawshank redemption...i think keb mo is kind of playing on that...in that movie one of the major things was ....dont you know everyone in here is innocent...im really sure mr cash would approve...PEACE MY BROTHER..

[chiledoug]

thanks for your comments i try to put awsome things on my videos..ive spent the last few days tracing country..music back to its roots...maybe i have a new project..blues..PEACE MY FRIENDS......

[FadingThought]

Blues has a long history of taking a song and making it their own. Cash being influenced by the blues, would know and appropriate this.

[MrLeeBoard]

Keb really puts the blues in this song..

[vraydio]

@dgb111 However, it makes it an even sadder song if the singer didn't actually kill the guy. Imagine being on death row for something you didn't do.

[dgb111]

Seriously - people think that the song is bluesier. Music should be colorblind people. So they slowed down the groove a bit, added a touch of harmonica, a tiny bit of slide and what? Now it´s the epitomy of blues?

Assuming that no one is a musicologist or has a degree in music harmony, by changing the lyrics the tune is MUCH less bluesy. In Johnny´s version he DID kill the guy so no parole and then judgement day. That´s the blues. There is no dif between Blues and Country.

[BruceJC75]

Huuuuu! I love that part!

[irish33036]

>>>>>alan freeds nephew,,,,,,,,he lived for blues

[berkeleyhome]

one of the best versions I've heard

[JPRBlues]

This is why I love the blues. Superb!!!....One for my faves...Peace...Jake

[Lucenablues]

FANTASTIC!!!!

PURE BLUES.

THANK YOU MY FRIEND!!!

[PeterBullOlsson]

Nice!! very good.