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Now, this here's a story about the Rock Island Line
Well the Rock Island line, she runs down into New Orleans
There's a big toll gate down there
And, y'know, if you got certain things on board
When you go through the toll gate
Well, you don't have to pay the man no toll
Well, the train driver, he pulled up to the toll gate
The man hollered and asked him what all he had on board, and he said
"I got livestock, I got livestock
I got cows, I got pigs, I got sheep, I got mules, I got all livestock"
Well, he said, "You're alright, boy
You don't have to pay no toll
You can just go right on through"
So, he went on through the toll gate, and as he went through
He started pickin' up a little bit of speed
Pickin' up a little bit of steam
He got on through, he turned, looked back at the man, he said
"Well, I fooled you, I fooled you
I got pig iron, I got pig iron
I got all pig iron"
Now, the Rock Island Line, she's a mighty good road
Rock Island Line, it's a road to ride
Rock Island Line, it's a mighty good road
Well, if you ride, you gotta ride it like you find it
Get your ticket at the station for the Rock Island Line
Oh! Cloudy in the west, and it looked like rain
'Round the curve come a passenger train
Northbound train on the southbound track
He's all right a-leavin, but he won't be back
Well, the Rock Island Line, she's a mighty good road
Rock Island Line, it's a road to ride
Rock Island Line, it's a mighty good road
Well, if you ride, you gotta ride it like you find it
Get your ticket at the station for the Rock Island Line
Well, I may be right, and I may be wrong
But you're gonna miss me when I'm gone
Well, the engineer said before he died
That there were two more drinks that he'd like to try
The doctor said, "What could they be?"
"A hot cup of coffee and a cold glass of tea"
Well, the Rock Island Line, she's a mighty good road
Rock Island Line, it's a road to ride
Rock Island Line, it's a mighty good road
Well, if you ride, you gotta ride it like you find it
Get your ticket at the station for the Rock Island Line



Writer(s): LEE HAYS, PETE SEEGER, FRED HELLERMAN, HUDDIE LEDBETTER, RONNIE GILBERT


Johnny Cash - The Legend
Album The Legend
date of release
02-08-2005

1   Girl from the North Country
2   I Walk the Line
3   It Takes One to Know Me
4   I Still Miss Someone
5   Folsom Prison Blues (live)
6   I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
7   Man in Black
8   Jackson
9   Cry! Cry! Cry!
10   Time Changes Everything
11   I Will Rock and Roll with You
12   Dark As a Dungeon
13   The Man On the Hill
14   Flesh and Blood
15   The One On the Right Is On the Left
16   The Ways of a Woman In Love
17   (Ghost) Riders In the Sky
18   Ring of Fire
19   Diamonds In the Rough
20   Goodbye Little Darlin’ Goodbye
21   Hey Porter
22   A Boy Named Sue (live)
23   If I Were a Carpenter
24   (There'll Be) Peace In the Valley
25   Keep On the Sunny Side
26   Old Shep
27   Down In the Valley
28   Bury Me Not On the Lone Prairie
29   I've Been Working On the Railroad
30   Sweet Betsy from Pike
31   The Legend of John Henry's Hammer
32   Frankie's Man, Johnny
33   Goodnight Irene
34   The Wreck of the Old 97
35   Cocaine Blues (Live)
36   Oney
37   One Piece At a Time
38   Give My Love to Rose
39   Pick the Wildwood Flower
40   What Is Truth
41   The Long Black Veil
42   Luther Played the Boogie
43   Rock Island Line
44   Guess Things Happen That Way
45   I'll Be All Smiles Tonight
46   Don't Take Your Guns to Town
47   I Was There When It Happened
48   Daddy Sang Bass
49   Get Rhythm
50   Big River
51   Casey Jones
52   Doin' My Time
53   There Ain't No Good Chain Gang
54   Delia's Gone
55   Pick a Bale O' Cotton
56   Were You There? (When They Crucified My Lord)
57   Pickin’ Time
58   September When It Comes
59   Tears In the Holston River
60   Rosanna's Going Wild
61   25 Minutes to Go
62   Forever Young
63   Walking the Blues
64   Wabash Cannonball
65   The Great Speckle Bird
66   Tennessee Flat-Top Box
67   I Got Stripes
68   Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)
69   When I'm Gray
70   Crazy Old Soldier
71   I Walk the Line (Revisited)
72   Highwayman
73   The Wanderer




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