Johnny boy My friend It is the end Of the summertime And the wine In the tree You and me You recall All the tears I had fears You could not stop them from Falling But you did Johnny boy, my friend They're falling again Johnny boy, my friend Stop them again For a lonely girl In the world Of the stone buildings that Would turn brown If they were born in the town Where the trees are grown Johnny boy, i'm all alone Please take Me home Johny boy, my friend Please hold my hand In the middle of the night Whene the world crashes With all its might Johnny boy, if you had pain I would do the same Johnny boy, my friend You gotta Help me again Johnny boy, my friend It is the end It is the end Of the summertime And the wine In the tree You and me You recall All the tears I had fears You could not stop them from falling But you did,Johnny boy Johnny boy, my friend My friend You gotta Help me

When I hear that wind blow, All across the Wicklow mountains. Is it you I hear a calling? Johnny boy, oh Johnny boy. When I look to the west, Out across the River Shannon. I can still see you smiling. Johnny boy, oh Johnny boy. When the leaves have turned to brown And winter's due. As I watch the sun go down, I'll think of you. When I hear that wind blow, All across the Wicklow mountains. Sure it's you, I'll hear a calling. Johnny boy, oh Johnny boy.

Back about 1918, my father, Ray Cash was in the army in France Along about armistice day he was one of the proud men to stand inspection by general John J. Pershing Less than a year later my dad was back on a cotton farm in south-west Arkansas And, you know, the way of life didn't change very fast back home He rode a horse about ten miles every Sunday to see Miss Carrie Rivers In those days, when everyone in a country either rode a horse or wagon or walked You were probably a stranger if you were five miles from home, or less maybe Sometimes life was pretty tough so some of the people were tough too That's why my dad had a Colt .45 stuck in his belt every Sunday The first thing he always did was to lay his pistol on the manilow of the fireplace at grandpa Rivers When my parents got married, my mother, Carrie Rivers was 16 After that, it wasn't long 'til daddy wasn't considered a stranger So he made friends with 'most everybody around Daddy tells about an Irish immigrant on a railroad where he worked, the Cotton Belt line Who never stopped talkin' about going back to Dublin One of the first stories I ever remember my dad tellin' was one that an Irish immigrant told him And according to that particular source of information There was this boy, name Daniel McKinney, workin' on the fields one mornin' And across the fields came his sweetheart Rosa Lee, she came cryin' with tears in her eyes Later someone put down into a song some of the things that Rosa Lee told Daniel She said, "Daniel, there's a bloody war outraging and I've come to tell you that they are wantein' you to fight Go fight for Ireland but come back to me, Daniel, I'll be waitin'" Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen and down the mountainside The summer's gone, and all the roses falling It's you, it's you must go, and I must bide But come ye back when summer's in the meadow Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow I'll be here in sunshine or in shadows I'll be here, oh Danny boy, I'll miss you so But if you fall as all the flowers are fallin' And if you're dead, as dead you well may be I'll come and find the place where you are lying And kneel and say an Ave there for thee But come ye back when summer's in the meadow Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow I'll be here in sunshine or in shadows Oh, Danny boy, oh, Danny boy, I love you so

Country boy, ain't got no shoes Country boy, ain't got no blues Well, you work all day While you're wantin' to play In the sun and the sand With a face that's tan At the end of the day When your work is done You ain't got nothin' but fun Country boy, ain't got no ills Country boy, don't owe no bills Country boy, ain't got no ills Country boy, don't owe no bills You get a wiggly worm And then you watch him squirm While you put him on a hook And you drop him in a brook If everything's gonna turn out right You're gonna fry fish tonight Country boy, got a lot to lose Country boy, how I wish I was in your shoes Country boy, you got a shaggy dog Country boy, up a holler log Well, he comes in a run When you pick up your gun And with a shell or two And your dog and you When you get your rabbit You'll skin his hide He's gonna be good fried Country boy, you got a lot to lose Country boy, how I wish I was in your shoes Country boy, you got work to do Country boy, in the morning dew You gotta plant the seed You gotta cut the weeds There's many a row You know you gotta hoe When it's quittin' time And your work is through There's a lot of life in you Country boy, you lucky thing Country boy, I wish I was you, and you were me

Well, my daddy left home when I was three And he didn't leave much to ma and me Just this old guitar and a empty bottle of booze Now, I don't blame him 'cause he run and hid But the meanest thing that he ever did Was before he left, he went and named me Sue Well, he must've thought that it was quite a joke And it got a lot of laughs from a lots of folks Seems I had to fight my whole life through Some gal would giggle and I'd get red And some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head I'll tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue Well, I grew up quick and I grew up mean My fist got hard and my wits got keen Roamed from town to town to hide my shame But I made me a vow to the moon and stars I'd search the honkytonks and bars And kill that man that give me that awful name Well, it was Gatlinburg in mid-July And I just hit town and my throat was dry I thought I'd stop and have myself a brew At an old saloon on a street of mud There at a table, dealin' stud Sat the dirty, mangy dog that named me Sue Well, I knew that snake was my own sweet dad From a worn-out picture that my mother'd had And I knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye He was big and bent and gray and old And I looked at him, and my blood ran cold And I said, "My name is Sue! How do you do? Now you gonna die!" Yeah, that's what I told him! Well, I hit him hard right between the eyes And he went down, but to my surprise Come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear But I busted a chair right across his teeth And we crashed through the wall and into the street Kickin' and a-gougin' in the mud and the blood and the beer I tell ya, I've fought tougher men But I really can't remember when He kicked like a mule and he bit like a crocodile I heard him laugh and then I heard him cuss And he went for his gun and I pulled mine first He stood there lookin' at me and I saw him smile And he said, "Son This world is rough And if a man's gonna make it, he's gotta be tough And I know I wouldn't be there to help you along So I give you that name and I said goodbye I knew you'd have to get tough or die And it's that name that helped to make you strong" Yeah, he said, "Now you just fought one hell of a fight And I know you hate me, and you got the right To kill me now, and I wouldn't blame you if you do But you oughtta thank me, before I die For the gravel in your guts and the spit in the eye 'Cause I'm the - that named you Sue" Yeah, what could I do? What could I do? I got all choked up and I threw down my gun Called him my pa, and he called me his son And I come away with a different point of view And I think about him, now and then Every time I try and every time I win And if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna name him Bill or George! Anything but Sue! I still hate that name! "All right, thank you very much Just before I ask the Statler Brothers to come back out, we'd like to ask the Carter Family and Carl to help us out on a fine scripture. Look, we got a lot of requests to do 'Peace in the Valley'."

You were one of those classic ones Traveling around this sun You were one of those classic ones I wish she knew you You were one of those classic ones Now everybody knows You were one of those classic ones, yeah Alright You're a legend in my own mind My middle name, my goodbye You were here when I wrote this But the masters and mixes Will take too long to finish To show you I'm sorry, I did not visit Did not know how to take it When your eyes did not know me Like I know you You were one of those classic ones Traveling around this sun You were one of those classic ones I wish she knew you You were one of those classic ones Now everybody knows You were one of those classic ones, yeah Alright You're a legend in my own mind My middle name, my goodbye Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye No (Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye) Alright You're a legend in my own mind My middle name, my goodbye Then the day that it happened I recorded this last bit I look forward to having A lunch with you again

Sometimes I feel cold, even paralyzed My interior world needs to sanitize I've got to step through or I'll dissipate I'll record my step through for my basement tapes Nice to know my kind will be on my side I don't believe the hype And you know you're a terrible sight But you'll be just fine Just don't believe the hype Yeah, they might be talking behind your head Your exterior world can step off instead It might take some friends and a warmer shirt But you don't get thick skin without getting burnt Nice to know my kind will be on my side I don't believe the hype And you know you're a terrible sight But you'll be just fine Just don't believe the hype No, I don't know which way I'm going But I can hear my way around No, I don't know which way I'm going But I can hear my way around No, I don't know which way I'm going But I can hear my way around No, I don't know which way I'm going But I can hear my way around But I can hear my way around Nice to know my kind will be on my side I don't believe the hype And you know you're a terrible sight But you'll be just fine Just don't believe the hype (don't believe the hype) Nice to know my kind will be on my side I don't believe the hype And you know you're a terrible sight But you'll be just fine Just don't believe the hype Nice to know my kind will be on my side I don't believe the hype And you know you're a terrible sight But you'll be just fine Just don't believe the hype

You are formidable to me 'Cause you seem to know it, where you wanna go Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll follow you But you should know I might be cynical towards you But I just can't believe that I'm for you Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can die with you Just let me know (yeah) And I know that we just met But could you take me everywhere you've ever been? I wanna see it all, no surprises, yeah You are formidable to me 'Cause you seem to know it, where you wanna go Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll follow you But you should know I might bе clinical, don't you tell I won't break your heart if you can brеak my spell Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can die with you Just let me know Fast-forward 13 years now Don't know what it was, but somehow we played it out in reverse I'm afraid of you now, more than I was at first And I know you just left, but can I take you everywhere we've ever been? I wanna see it all, no surprises, yeah You are formidable to me 'Cause you seem to know it, where you wanna go Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll follow you But you should know I might be cynical towards you I'm just worried my loyalty will bore you Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can die with you Just let me know Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can die with you Just let me know