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American V: A Hundred Highways
by Johnny Cash
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3.4032
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3.2476
American V: A Hundred Highways Lyrics
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- Oh, lord, help me walk
- Another mile, just one more mile;
- I'm tired of walkin' all alone.
- And lord, help me to smile
- Another smile, just one more smile;
- Don't think I can do things on my own.
- I never thought I needed help before;
- Thought that I could get by - by myself.
- But now I know I just can't take it any more.
- And with a humble heart, on bended knee,
- I'm beggin' You please for help
- Oh come down from Your golden throne to me, to lowly me;
- I need to feel the touch of Your tender hand.
- Release the chains of darkness
- Let me see, Lord let me see;
- Just where I fit into your master plan.
- I never thought I needed help before;
- Thought that I could get by - by myself.
- Now I know I just can't take it any more.
- And with a humble heart, on bended knee,
- I'm beggin' You please for help
- With a humble heart, on bended knee,
- I'm beggin' You please for help
- You can run on for a long time
- Run on for a long time
- Run on for a long time
- Sooner or later God'll cut you down
- Sooner or later God'll cut you down
- Go tell that long tongue liar
- Go and tell that midnight rider
- Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
- Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
- Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
- Well my goodness gracious let me tell you the news
- My head's been wet with the midnight dew
- I've been down on bended knee talkin' to the man from Galilee
- He spoke to me in the voice so sweet
- I thought I heard the shuffle of the angel's feet
- He called my name and my heart stood still
- When he said, "John go do My will!"
- Go tell that long tongue liar
- Go and tell that midnight rider
- Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
- Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
- Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
- You can run on for a long time
- Run on for a long time
- Run on for a long time
- Sooner or later God'll cut you down
- Sooner or later God'll cut you down
- Well you may throw your rock and hide your hand
- Workin' in the dark against your fellow man
- But as sure as God made black and white
- What's down in the dark will be brought to the light
- You can run on for a long time
- Run on for a long time
- Run on for a long time
- Sooner or later God'll cut you down
- Sooner or later God'll cut you down
- Go tell that long tongue liar
- Go and tell that midnight rider
- Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
- Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down
- Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down
- Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down
- If you could read my mind, love,
- What a tale my thoughts could tell.
- Just like an old time movie,
- 'Bout a ghost from a wishing well.
- In a castle dark or a fortress strong,
- With chains upon my feet.
- You know that ghost is me.
- And I will never be set free
- As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see.
- If I could read your mind, love,
- What a tale your thoughts could tell.
- Just like a paperback novel,
- The kind the drugstores sell.
- When you reached the part where the heartaches come,
- The hero would be me.
- But heroes often fail,
- And you won't read that book again
- Because the ending's just too hard to take!
- I'd walk away like a movie star
- Who gets burned in a three way script.
- Enter number two:
- A movie queen to play the scene
- Of bringing all the good things out in me.
- But for now, love, let's be real;
- I never thought I could act this way
- And I've got to say that I just don't get it.
- I don't know where we went wrong,
- But the feeling's gone
- And I just can't get it back.
- If you could read my mind, love,
- What a tale my thoughts could tell.
- Just like an old time movie,
- 'Bout a ghost from a wishing well.
- In a castle dark or a fortress strong.
- With chains upon my feet.
- But stories always end,
- And if you read between the lines,
- You'll know that I'm just tryin' to understand
- The feelin's that you lack.
- I never thought I could feel this way
- And I've got to say that I just don't get it.
- I don't know where we went wrong,
- But the feelin's gone
- And I just can't get it back!
- Where the road is dark and the seed is sowed
- Where the gun is cocked and the bullet's cold
- Where the miles are marked in the blood and gold
- I'll meet you further on up the road
- Got on my dead man's suit and my smilin' skull ring
- My lucky graveyard boots and a song to sing
- I got a song to sing, it keeps me out of the cold
- And I'll meet you further on up the road.
- Further on up the road
- Further on up the road
- Where the way is dark and the night is cold
- One sunny mornin' we'll rise I know
- And I'll meet you further on up the road.
- Now I been out in the desert, just doin' my time
- Searchin' through the dust, lookin' for a sign
- If there's a light up ahead, well brother I don't know
- But I got this fever burnin' in my soul
- Further on up the road
- Further on up the road
- Further on up the road
- Further on up the road
- One sunny mornin' we'll rise I know
- And I'll meet you further on up the road
- One sunny mornin' we'll rise I know
- And I'll meet you further on up the road.
- I heard the laughter at the depot
- But my tears fell like the rain
- When I saw them place that long white casket
- In the baggage coach of the evening train
- The baby's eyes are red from weeping
- Its little heart is filled with pain
- Oh Daddy cried they're taking Mama
- Away from us on the evening train
- As I turned to walk away from the depot
- It seemed I heard her call my name
- Take care of my baby and tell him darling
- That I'm going home on the evening train
- I pray that God will give me courage
- To carry on 'til we meet again
- It's hard to know she's gone forever
- They're carrying her home on the evening train
- I couldn't manage the problems I laid on myself
- And it just made it worse when I laid them on somebody else
- So I finally surrendered it all brought down in despair
- I cried out for help and I felt a warm comforter there
- [Chorus:]
- And I came to believe in a power much higher than I
- I came to believe that I needed help to get by
- In childlike faith I gave in and gave him a try
- And I came to believe in a power much higher than I
- Nothing worked out when I handled it all on my own
- And each time I failed it made me feel twice as alone
- Then I cried, "Lord there must be a sure and easier way
- For it just cannot be that a man should lose hope every day."
- [Chorus]
- Yes, I came to believe in a power much higher than I
- I have been a rover
- I have walked alone
- Hiked a hundred highways
- Never found a home
- Still in all I'm happy
- The reason is, you see
- Once in a while along the way
- Love's been good to me
- There was a girl in Denver
- Before the summer storm
- Oh, her eyes were tender
- Oh, her arms were warm
- And she could smile away the thunder
- Kiss away the rain
- Even though she's gone away
- You won't hear me complain
- I have been a rover
- I have walked alone
- Hiked a hundred highways
- Never found a home
- Still in all I'm happy
- The reason is, you see
- Once in a while along the way
- Love's been good to me
- There was a girl in Portland
- Before the winter chill
- We used to go a-courtin'
- Along October hill
- And she could laugh away the dark clouds
- Cry away the snow
- It seems like only yesterday
- As down the road I go
- I've been a rover
- I have walked alone
- Hiked a hundred highways
- Never found a home
- Still in all I'm happy
- The reason is, you see
- Once in a while along the way
- Love's been good to me
- If heartaches brought fame in love's crazy game,
- I'd be a legend in my time.
- If they gave gold statuettes for tears and regrets,
- I'd be a legend in my time.
- But they don't give awards, and there's no praise or fame
- For hearts that are broken for love that's in vain.
- If loneliness meant world acclaim,
- Everyone would know my name
- I'd be a legend in my time.
- We're the best partners this world's ever seen,
- Together as close as can be.
- But sometimes it's hard to find time in between,
- To tell you what you mean to me.
- You are the rose of my heart,
- You are the love of my life.
- A flower not fading nor falling apart,
- If you're tired, rest your head on my arm.
- Rose of my heart.
- When sorrow holds you in its arms of clay,
- It's rain drops that fall from your eyes.
- Your smile's like the sun come to earth for a day,
- You brighten my blackest of skies.
- You are the rose of my heart,
- You are the love of my life.
- A flower not fading nor falling apart,
- If you're cold, let my love make you warm.
- Rose of my heart.
- So hard times or easy times, what do I care,
- There's nothing I'd change if I could.
- The tears and the laughter are things that we share,
- Your hand in mine makes it good.
- You are the rose of my heart,
- You are the love of my life.
- A flower not fading nor falling apart,
- If you're cold, let my love make you warm.
- Rose of my heart.
- You are the rose of my heart,
- You are the love of my life.
- A flower not fading nor falling apart,
- If you're cold, let my love make you warm.
- Rose of my heart.
- [Chorus:]
- Four strong winds that blow lonely, seven seas that run high,
- All these things that won't change, come what may.
- Well our good times are all gone, and I'm bound for moving on.
- I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way.
- Think I'll go out to Alberta, weather's good there in the fall.
- Got some friends that I can go to workin' for.
- Yet I wish you'd change your mind, if I asked you one more time
- But we've been through this a hundred times or more.
- [Chorus]
- If I get there before the snow flies, and if things are looking good.
- You could meet me if I sent you down the fare,
- But by then it would be winter, not much for you to do.
- And the winds can sure blow cold way up there.
- [Chorus]
- I got rid of the shackles that bound me and the guards that were always around me
- There were tears on the mail mother wrote me in jail
- But I'm free from the chain gang now
- All the years I was known and respected 'til one day I was wrongly suspected
- I was shackled in chains in a cold freezin' rain but I'm free from the chain gang now
- [Guitar]
- All the years I was known by a number how I kept my mind is a wonder
- But like a bird in a tree I got my liberty and I'm free from the chain gang now
- I got rid of the shackles that bound me and the guards that were always around me
- There were tears on the mail mother sent me in jail
- But I'm free from the chain gang now
- There were tears on the mail mother wrote me in jail
- But I'm free from the chain gang now
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