Johnny Cash - Ride This Train (Part 5) lyrics

Ride this train to Pionridge Mississippi see that levee there

It's built to hold back the waters of Ol' Man River when he gets on a rampage

And he gets on a rampage believe me

One of these days he's gonna come right over that levee

And we're gonna have to head for the hills again

And you know how that levee was built Mister

Not with machines it is built with elbow grease

They got the men off the farms out of the houses

Even out of the honky tonks on Saturday night

I don't hardly know how it happened to me it happens fast

I just remember I was in the Green Lantern in Natchez one Saturday night

And somebody pulled a knife and somebody threw the bottle

And the next thing I knew I had a chain on my leg and a shovel in my hand

It seemed like the whole world come down on me

They whipped us like miles and when they did feed us

There was always a fight or a killin' over who's gonna get the biggest piece of meet

Whereas the boss man did't care about the killin'

That is less you killed a good worker then you get killed

If you complain about anything he just liable to give you a chance to get away

You know what I mean

They take the chains off your legs and beg you to run so they can shoot you