Lyrics 25 Minutes to Go - Live at Folsom State Prison, Folsom, CA (1st Show) - January 1968 - Johnny Cash

Well, they're building a gallows outside my cell
And I've got 25 minutes to go
And the whole town's waitin' just to hear me yell
I've got 24 minutes to go

Well, they gave me some beans for my last meal
With 23 minutes to go
But nobody asked me how I feel
I've got 22 minutes to go

Well, I sent for the governor and the whole dern bunch
With 21 minutes to go
And I called up the mayor but he's out to lunch
I've got 20 more minutes to go

Then the sheriff said "Boy, I'm gonna watch you die"
With 19 minutes to go
So I laughed in his face and I spit in his eye
With 18 minutes to go

Now I hear comes the preacher for to save my soul
With 13 minutes to go
And he's talking 'bout burnin' but I'm so cold
12 more minutes to go

Now they're testin' the trap and it chills my spine
11 more minutes to go
And the trap and the rope, all they work just fine
10 more minutes to go

Well I'm waitin' for the pardon that'll set me free
With nine more minutes to go
But this ain't the movies so forget about me
Eight more minutes to go

With my feet on the trap and my head in the noose
Five more minutes to go
Won't somebody come and cut me loose?
Seven more minutes to go

I can see the mountains, I can see the skies
With three more minutes to go
And it's too dern pretty for a man that don't want to die
With two more minutes to go

I can see the buzzards, I can hear the crows
One more minute to go
And now I'm swingin' and here I go!