Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues

FOLSOM PRISON BLUES
(J.R. Cash)
JOHNNY CASH (Sun 232, 1956)

I hear that train a-commin', it's rollin' around the bend
And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when
I'm stuck in Folsom prison and time keeps draggin' on
But that train keeps a-rollin' on down to San Antone
When I was just a baby, my mama told me, son
Always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns
But I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die
When I hear that whistle blowin', I hang my head and cry

I bet there's rich folks eatin' in a fancy dining car
They're probably drinking coffee and smoking big cigars
But I know I had it coming, I know I can't be free
But those people keep a-movin' and that's what tortures me

Well if that freed me from this prison
and that railroad train was mine
I bet I'd move it on a little farther down the line
Far from Folsom prison, that's where I want to stay
And I'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away

Johnny a en fait (presque) tout pompé sur Gordon Jenkins, l'arrangeur de Sinatra !





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 blowing, I hang my head and cry

I see the rich folks eating 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

"At the time, I really had no idea I would be a professional recording artist; I wasn't trying to rip anybody off ..." (Johnny Cash)

Mais oui effectivement, il faudrait etre d une mauvaise foi absolue pour prétendre qu il n y a rien a voir ... Cela prouve que ces "techniques et astuces" existent depuis belle lurette et qu il n y a pas de quoi crier au scandale a ce moment la quand Brian Setzer "re signe" "Bop bop a doo bop" en "Fishnet stockings", ce que ne manquent pas d accuser sans vergogne ses (nombreux ? ) détracteurs !  

Bon ça casse le mythe sans doute, Tupelo a ressorti un fantome du placard  
Ah la la Internet !!!! Mieux vaut toujours ne pas tout savoir