Unchained

Johnny Cash Unchained Lyrics
1.Rowboat

Lyricist:Beck Hansen
Writer(s):Beck Hansen

Rowboat, row me to the shore
She don't wanna be my friend no more
She dug a hole in the bottom of my soul
She don't wanna be my friend no more

Pick me up, gimme some food to eat
In your truck goin' no place
I'll be home talkin' to nobody
You'll be strange, you'll be far away

Big fat moon and my body's out of tune
With the burnin' ways she's a billion years away
Dog food on the floor and I've been like this before
She is all and everything else is small

Pick me up, gimme some alcohol
In your truck playin' the radio
I'll be home with the gasoline
You'll be stoned, you'll be far away

Rowboat, row me to the shore
She don't wanna be my friend no more
She dug a hole in the bottom of my soul
She is all and everything else is small


2.Sea Of Heartbreak

Lyricist:Paul Hampton;hal David
Writer(s):Hal DavidPaul Hampton

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The lights in the harbor
Don't shine for me
I'm like a lost ship
Adrift on the sea

The sea of heartbreak
Lost love and loneliness
Memories of your caress
So divine how I wish
You were mine again my dear
I am on this sea of tears
Sea of heartbreak

Oh, how did I lose you?
Oh, where did I fail?
Why did you leave me?
Always to sail

This sea of heartbreak
Lost love and loneliness
Memories of your caress
So divine how I wish
You were mine again my dear
I am on this sea of tears
Sea of heartbreak

Oh what I'd give just
To sail back to shore
Back to your arms once more

Come to my rescue
Oh, come here to me
Take me and keep me
Away from the sea

Sea of heartbreak
Lost love and loneliness
Memories of your caress
So divine how I wish
You were mine again my dear
I am on this sea of tears
Sea of heartbreak

Sea of heartbreak
Sea of heartbreak
Sea of heartbreak


3.Rusty Cage

Lyricist:Chris Cornell
Writer(s):Chris Cornell

You wired me awake
And hit me with a hand of broken nails
You tied my lead and pulled my chain
To watch my blood begin to boil

But I'm gonna break, I'm gonna break my
gonna break my rusty cage and run
I'm gonna break, I'm gonna break my
Gonna break my rusty cage and run

Too cold to start a fire
I'm burning diesel, burning dinosaur bones
I'll take the river down to still water
And ride a pack of dogs

I'm gonna break, I'm gonna break my
gonna break my rusty cage and run
I'm gonna break, I'm gonna break my
Gonna break my rusty cage and run

When the forest burns along the road
Like God's eyes in my headlights
When the dogs are looking for their bones
And it's raining icepick's on your steel shore

I'm gonna break, I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run
I'm gonna break, I'm gonna break my
Gonna break my rusty cage and run

I'm gonna break, I'm gonna break my
Gonna break my rusty cage and run
I'm gonna break, I'm gonna break my
Gonna break my rusty cage and run


4.The One Rose(That's Left In My Heart)

Lyricist:Lani Mcintiredel Lyon
Writer(s):Del LyonLani Mcintire

So blue, lonesome too but still true
Rosie, haunts me, makes me think of you

You're the one rose that's left in my heart, dear
I love you, adore you, I do

Each night in dreamland we wander along
Telling love story anew

When from a blue sky a black cloud came rolling
Breaking my heart in two

Oh, we ought not to part, I have said from the start
You're the one rose that's left in my heart

Oh, we ought not to part, I have said from the start
You're the one rose that's left in my heart


5.Country Boy

Lyricist:John R. Cash
Writer(s):John R. Cash

Country boy
Ain't got no shoes
Country boy
Ain't got no blues

Well you work all day while you're waitin' 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 wills
Country boy
You 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
You 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 hollow 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're lucky free
Country boy
I wish I was you and you was me


6.Memories Are Made Of This

Lyricist:Frank MillerTerry GilkysonRichard Dehr
Writer(s):Frank MillerRichard DehrTerry Gilkyson

Take one fresh and tender kiss
Add one stolen night of bliss
One girl, one boy, some grief, some joy
Memories are made of this

Don't forget a small moonbeam
Fold it lightly with a dream
Your lips and mine, to sip the wine
Memories are made of this

Then at the wedding bells
One house where lovers dwell
Three little kids for the flavor

Stir carefully through the day
See how the flavor stays
These are the dreams that we must savor

With His blessings from above
Serve it generously with love
One man, one wife, one love for life
Memories are made of this

Memories are made of this
Memories are made of this
Memories are made of this


7.Spiritual

Lyricist:Josh Haden
Writer(s):Josh Haden

Jesus I don't wanna die alone Jesus oh Jesus I don't wanna die
alone

My love wasn't true Now all I have is you

Jesus oh Jesus I don't wanna die alone

Jesus If you hear my last breath
Don't leave me here Left to die a lonely death I know I have
sinned but Lord I'm suffering

Jesus Oh Jesus If you hear my last breath

Jesus I don't wanna die alone Jesus oh Jesus I don't wanna die
alone

My love wasn't true Now all I have is you

Jesus Oh Jesus I don't wanna die alone

Jesus Jesus All my troubles All My pain Will leave me Once again

All my troubles All my pain Will leave me once again

All my troubles All my pain Will leave me once again Once again


8.The Kneeling Drunkard's Plea

Lyricist:Maybelle CarterAnita CarterJune CarterHelen Carter
Writer(s):Anita CarterHelen CarterJune CarterMaybelle Carter

'Lord, have mercy on me'
Was the kneeling drunkard's plea
And as he knelt there on the ground
I know that God in Heaven looked down

I went down by an old country church
I saw the drunkard stagger and lurch
And as he reached his mother's grave
I saw that drunkard kneel and pray

'Lord, have mercy on me'
Was the kneeling drunkard's plea
And as he knelt there on the ground
I know that God in Heaven looked down

'Bring my darling boy to me'
Was his mother's dying plea
And as he staggered through the gate
Alas, he came just one day too late

Three years have passed since she went away
Her son is sleeping beside her today
And I know that in Heaven, his mother he'll see
For God has heard that drunkard's plea

'Lord, have mercy on me'
Was the kneeling drunkard's plea
And as he knelt there on the ground
I know that God in Heaven looked down
I know that God in Heaven looked down


9.Southern Accents

Lyricist:Tom Petty
Writer(s):Tom Petty

There's a southern accent where I come from
The young'uns call it country, the Yankees call it dumb
I got my own way of talkin' but everything is done
With a southern accent, where I come from

Now that drunk tank in Atlanta was just a motel room to me
I'd think I might go work Orlando if them orange groves don't
freeze
I've got my own way of workin' but everything is run
With a southern accent, where I come from

For just a minute there I was dreaming
For just a minute it was all so real
For just a minute she was standing there with me

There's a dream that I keep having where my mama comes to me
And she kneels down over by the window and says a prayer for me
I got my own way of prayin' and everyone's begun
With a southern accent, where I come from

We have our own way of livin' and everything is done
With a southern accent, where I come from


10.Mean Eyed Cat

Lyricist:John R. Cash
Writer(s):John R. Cash

I give my woman half my money at the general store
I said, 'Now buy a little groceries, and don't spend no more'
But she paid ten dollars for a ten cent hat
And bought some store bought cat food for that mean eyed cat

When I woke up this mornin' and I turned my head
There wasn't a cotton pickin' thing on her side of the bed
I found a little old note where her head belonged
It said, 'Dear John, honey baby, I'm long gone'

When I heard a whistle blowin', and the big wheels a-turnin'
I was scared as I could be
But I put on my overalls and I headed to town
Gonna bring her back with me

I asked the man down at the station if he'd seen her there
I told him all about her pretty eyes and long, blond hair
He spit his tobacco, said, 'I'll be dad blamed
I believe I did see her leavin' on the east bound train'

I bought a round trip ticket on the east bound train
I was broke as I could be
But when I come back, I gotta buy another ticket
Gonna bring her back with me

Well, I got off the train somewhere in Arkansas
And I worked up the guts to call my mother-in-law
She said, 'I'll tell you where she is, if you act right'
'She's workin' 4to 12 at Trucker's World tonight'

Well when I walked in she saw me, and she took off her apron
And she grabbed her goin' home hat
She bought a ticket with her tips, and now we're curled up on
the sofa
Me and her and that mean eyed cat


11.Meet Me In Heaven

Lyricist:John R. Cash
Writer(s):John R. Cash

We saw houses falling from the sky
Where the mountains lean down to the sand
We saw blackbirds circling 'round an old castle keep
And I stood on the cliff and held your hand

We walked troubles brooding wind swept hills
And we loved and we laughed the pain away
At the end of the journey when our last song is sung
Will you meet me in Heaven someday

Can't be sure of how's it's going to be
When we walk into the light across the bar
But I'll know you and you'll know me
Out there beyond the stars

We've seen the secret things revealed by God
And we heard what the angels had to say
Should you go first or if you follow me
Will you meet me in Heaven someday

Living in a mansion on the streets of gold
At the corner of Grace and Rapture Way
In sweet ecstasy while the ages roll
Will you meet me in Heaven someday

In sweet ecstasy while the ages roll
Will you meet me in Heaven someday


12.I Never Picked Cotton

Lyricist:Charles WilliamsBobby George
Writer(s):Bobby GeorgeCharles Williams

I never picked cotton
Like my mother did and my brother did
And my sister did and my Daddy died young
Workin' in a coal mine

When I was just a baby too little for the cotton sack
I played in the dirt while the others worked
'Til they couldn't straighten up their backs
And I made myself a promise when I was old enough to run
That I'd never stay a single day In that Oklahoma sun

And I never picked cotton
Like my mother did and my brother did
And my sister did and my Daddy died young
Workin' in a coal mine

Folks said that I grew up early and the farm couldn't hold me
then
So I stole ten bucks and a pickup truck and I never went back
again
Then it was fast cars and whiskey, long legged girls and fun
I had everything that money could bring and I took it all with a
gun

And I never picked cotton
Like my mother did and my brother did
And my sister did and my Daddy died young
Workin' in a coal mine

It was Saturday night in Memphis when a redneck grabbed my shirt
And he said go back to your cotton sack, I left him lying in the
dirt
And they'll take me in the morning to the gallows just outside
And in the time I've got there ain't a hell of a lot
I can look back on with pride

But I never picked cotton
Like my mother did and my brother did
And my sister did and my Daddy died young
Workin' in a coal mine

I never picked cotton
Like my mother did and my brother did
And my sister did and my Daddy died young
Workin' in a coal mine


13.Unchained

Lyricist:Jude Johnstone
Writer(s):Jude Johnstone

I have been ungrateful and I have been unwise
Restless from the cradle but now I realize it's so hard
To see the rainbow through glasses dark as these
Maybe I'll be able from down on my knees

Oh I am weak, oh I know I am vain
Take this weight from me
Let my spirit be unchained

Old man swearin' at the sidewalk, I am overcome
Seems that we've both forgotten, forgotten to go home
Have I seen an angel or have I seen a ghost?
Where's that rock of ages when I need it most

Oh I am weak, oh I know I am vain
Take this weight from me
Let my spirit be unchained


14.I've Been Everywhere

Lyricist:Geoff Mack
Writer(s):Geoff Mack

I was totin' my pack along the dusty Winnemucca road
When along came a semi with a high and canvas covered load
If you're going to Winnemucca, mack, with me you can ride
So I climbed into the cab and then I settled down inside
He asked me if I'd seen a road with so much dust and sand
And I said, 'Listen, I've traveled every road in this here land'

I've been everywhere, man
I've been everywhere, man
Across the deserts bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've had my share, man
I've been everywhere

I've been to Reno, Chicago, Fargo
Minnesota, Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow
Sarasota, Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa
Oklahoma, Tampa, Panama
Mattawa, La Paloma, Bangor
Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo
Tocopilla, Barranquilla and
Padilla, I'm a killer

I've been everywhere, man
I've been everywhere, man
Across the deserts bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've had my share, man
I've been everywhere

I've been to Boston, Charleston, Dayton
Louisiana, Washington, Houston
Kingston, Texarkana, Monterey, Ferriday
Santa Fe, Tallahoosa, Glen Rock
Black Rock, Little Rock, Oskaloosa
Tennessee, Hennessey, Chicopee Spirit Lake
Grand Lake, Devil's Lake, Crater Lake, for Pete's sake

I've been everywhere, man
I've been everywhere, man
Across the deserts bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've had my share, man
I've been everywhere

I've been to Louisville, Nashville
Knoxville, Ombabika, Shefferville
Jacksonville, Water ville, Costa Rica
Pittsfield, Springfield, Bakersfield
Shreveport, Hackensack, Cadillac
Fond Du Lac, Davenport, Idaho, Jellicoe
Argentina, Diamontina, Pasadena
Catalina, see what I mean'a

I've been everywhere, man
I've been everywhere, man
Across the deserts bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've had my share, man
I've been everywhere

Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Gravellburg
Colorado, Ellensburg, Rexburg Vicksburg
El Dorado, Larrimore, Atmore, Haverstraw
Chattanika, Chaska Nebraska, Alaska
Opelika, Baraboo, Waterloo, Kalamazoo
Kansas City Sioux City, Cedar City
Dodge City, what a pity

I've been everywhere, man
I've been everywhere, man
Across the deserts bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've had my share, man
I've been everywhere
I've been everywhere