Johnny Cash -- His Final Live Performance (2003)

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the early music show, tonight you have a surprise, don't you? Very good bluegrass band, the bluegrass tradition. I don't think they knew what the hell had happened here in the valley when They brought in a really good bluegrass band and then our special guest is okay, it's wonderful to have him and one of the biggest supporters of the Carter portfolio and the Music Center is Johnny Cash , so we'll talk later about the building and the What's happening we'll make it bigger and a lot of things are going to happen here, but now let's welcome my friend Johnny Cage, yes, hi, I'm Johnny, good to see you Friends, thank you for coming. to watch our show Jerry Jerry Hensley I hear the train coming, it's rolling around the curve and I haven't seen the sunlight since I don't know when I'm stuck in Folsom Prison and the time keeps passing but the rain keeps on The movement that I was going to San Antone when I was just a baby, my mom told me son, always be a good boy, never play with guns, but I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

I bet those rich people eat in the fancy dining car, they're probably drinking coffee and smoking big cigars. Well, I know I deserved it. I know I can't be free. Well, if I were freed from this prison, if that train was mine, then I would. I would move a little further down, away from Folsom Prison, that's where I want to stay and I'll

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as long as June said you don't sing very well, but he's a good kid. I keep a close eye on this heart of mine. Open all the time I pull out the ends of the tie that binds 'cause your mind I walk the line It's so easy for me to be true I find myself alone when he stays with Yes I admit I'm a fool for you 'cause you're my path only as sure as the night gets dark as life is I have you on my mind oh dear night and happiness I have known bruises to your right because your way down the line you have a way to keep me by your side you get because a love that I can't for you I know I would even try change course because you are mine I walked through life I keep a close eye on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that ties because you are mine I walk the line I regret the laryngitis of hoarseness tonight no I realized it was that horse hmm yes, first I read, no It's not okay, it's okay, it's okay, thank you and well, I woke up on Sunday morning, no way, my whole body didn't hurt and the spring What I had for breakfast was not bad.

I had a mole for this and then fumbled in my closet. my clothes found my shirt cleaner and dirtier, then I washed my face and called my head, today it stumbles down the stairs towards me. I smoked my mind the night before with cigarettes, songs. I've been investigating, but I licked the first and watched the little bottle because another. I may have been kicking I crossed the empty street I caught the slightest smell someone tried and chicken and it took me back to something I lost somewhere somehow along with a Sunday morning oh I'm longing for love and I was so motivated something on a Sunday that makes the body feel lonely nothing is short I have its loneliness like the sound of a sleeping city sidewalk Sunday morning entering the park I saw a dad with a leather girl who was swinging and me I stopped next to his Sunday school edition until the songs he was here when I took him down the road somewhere far away a lone bell was ringing and it took me back to something better lost somewhere somehow alone inside the wolf I'm Wishing love that was high 'cause there's something about a Sunday and then making someone feel lonely, no less than half of it is loneliness like the sound, obviously, the city sidewalk on Sunday mornings going down, the spirit of June Carter She eclipses me tonight with the love she had for me and the love I have for her. connect somewhere between here in heaven she came for a short visit I guess from heaven to visit me tonight to give me courage and inspiration like she always has she has never been anyone to me except courage and inspiration I thank God for June Carter I love her with all my heart I would like to do a song that she wrote and was extremely proud of you see it seriously, okay, okay, I went in to burn the Ring of Fire, I went down, I went down and the flames went up higher and burn, burn, burn the Ring of Fire Light the Ring of Fire, the taste of love is sweet, hearts like ours, I feel for you like a child, oh, but the fire came to life in the burning Ring of Fire.

I went down, I went down and the flames rose higher and the Ring burned, burned, burned. of Fire the Ring of Fire I filled two rings spinning out of the fight I went down and the flames when the iron and it burns burns burns the Ring of Fire love is a burning thing and it makes a ring of fire I feel for you like a I shot oh but the fire went crazy I fell into the burning Ring of Fire I went down and the flames rose higher and it hurts burn burns the Ring of Fire the Ring of Fire and it burns burns burn the Ring of Fire the Ring of Fire We had a memorial service for June and Hendersonville Tennessee and then we dressed there, her spirit

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d on but her body was laid to rest and I won't try to tell you how much I miss her.

I'm just saying that, well, I'd like to do it. Another song that is important to me that she asked to be sung at her funeral, she had asked me, this was months before we knew anything was wrong, she asked me to perform the Oak Ridge Boys, Larry Gatlin, Emmylou Harris and I asked him what he wanted. instead of this thing and she said the band of angels, it's okay, Maile, this sun is sinking fast, the race is almost strong, it's the triumph now, it's over, the triumph has begun oh, well, oh man, your wings white as snow to me, oh God, I've almost gained my heaven Lion my spirit Wow leasing the Saints behold they come I the sound of their wings around me said Oh why wait my oh my oh oh come to my mortal Oh Snow White for doing a good job on the basin and Jerry Hensley on guitar doing a wonderful good job, I thought of the weeping willow how to cry and I showed him the clouds outside the cover of a clear blue sky and the tears that I cried to that woman I'm going to flood your great river and I'm going to sit here until I die I met her accidentally in st.

Paul Minnesota and it's Aloni up every time I heard a growl slurring southern words, then I heard my dream came back down the river frolicking in Davenport and a follow up to Big River when you go to that area by Baton Rouge River Queen followed him, leads to this woman down. to your leaves New Orleans continue I have had enough do not tell me anything she loves you great river more than me yes I speak so we have been willow how to cry cry cry and I showed that the clouds had a clear cover blue sky and the tears of that woman cried.

I'm going to flood your great river and I'm going to sit here until she dies. Thank you, yes, thank you. Okay, you know, I know we're making a lot of noise here. but especially Jerry with this electric guitar, but this lucky Jerry, don't worry, we're not going to throw you away, I won't let them. The first time she brought electric instruments into the fold, Jeanette Carter came on stage and said, well, I know. We don't allow anyone to log on when she's here, but June said Johnny Cash was already online when she met him. That's what my cousin Jeanette said.

Here's a song I haven't played live on stage for 25 years. and I've been getting a lot of requests here, understand, your man, don't say my name out the window. I'm leaving, I won't even turn my head, don't send your son to people so that he doesn't let me talk. I'll leave like I said, I'd say the same old thing I've been saying all along, you'll stay there and stay in bed, keep your mouth shut until I leave, don't give me that old habit of understanding. your man meditate on it understand your man give my other suit to the Salvation Army and whatever else I leave behind I don't take anything if it will slow down the trip while I untangle and they won't repeat what I said While I breathe, I haven't breathed before I did. obvious disappear and, like a wild goose on the winner, you will understand, young man, you will understand your man, you will understand your man, thank you.