Johnny Cash - Transfusion Blues Lyrics

Lyrics Transfusion Blues - Johnny Cash



Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds
Took a transfusion and I shot my woman down
Went right home and I went to bed
I stuck that lovin' .44 beneath my head
Got up next mornin' and I grabbed that gun
Took a transfusion and away I run
Made a good run but I run too slow
They overtook me down in Juarez, Mexico
Late in the hot joints takin' the pills
In walked the sheriff from Jericho Hill
He said "Willy Lee, your name is not Jack Brown
You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down"
Said, "Yes, oh yes, my name is Willy Lee
If you've got a warrant just-a read it to me
Shot her down because she made me slow
I thought I was her daddy but she had five more"
When I was arrested I was dressed in black
Put me on a train and they took me back
Had no friends for to go my bail
They slapped my dried up carcass in that county jail
Into the courtroom my trial began
Where I was handled by twelve honest men
Just before the jury started out
I saw the little judge commenced to look about
In about five minutes in walked the man
Holding the verdict in his right hand
Verdict read in the first degree
I hollered, "Lowdy, Lowdy have a mercy on me"
The judge he smiled as he picked up his pen
99 years in the San Quentin pen
99 years underneath that ground
I can't forget the day I shot my woman down
Come on you guy and listen unto me
Lay off that liquor and let that transfusion be



Writer(s): T. J. ARNALL


Johnny Cash - The Complete Columbia Album Collection
Album The Complete Columbia Album Collection
date of release
04-12-2012

1 Amen
2 When He Reached Down His Hand for Me
3 Narration 5
4 Narration 4
5 Narration 3
6 Narration 2
7 Narration 1
8 Broken Hearted Lover
9 Worried Man Blues
10 Will the Circle Be Unbroken
11 When the Roses Bloom Again
12 My Clinch Mountain Home
13 Lonesome Valley
14 Keep on the Sunny Side
15 Gathering Flowers From the Hillside
16 I Ride an Old Paint
17 It Ain’t Me Babe
18 When It’s Springtime in Alaska (It’s Forty Below)
19 Fast Boat to Sydney
20 It Ain’t Me Babe
21 He’ll Understand and Say Well Done
22 Tell Him I’m Gone
23 Why Do You Punish Me
24 Are All the Children In
25 The Shifting, Whispering Sands, Part 1
26 I’d Still Be There
27 Please Don’t Play Red River Valley
28 The Singing Star’s Queen
29 I’m Free From the Chain Gang Now
30 Don’t Think Twice, It's Alright
31 Mama, You’ve Been on My Mind
32 For Lovin’ Me
33 I’d Just Be Fool Enough (To Fall)
34 I’m Working on a Building
35 The Banks of the Ohio
36 The Wabash Cannonball
37 Brown Eyes
38 You Wild Colorado
39 Understand Your Man
40 The Vanishing Race
41 The Talking Leaves
42 Take Me Home
43 Still in Town
44 Nine Pound Hammer
45 Mean as Hell
46 Here Was a Man
47 Everybody Loves a Nut
48 White Girl
49 We Are the Shepherds
50 Wabash Cannonball
51 Roughneck
52 Lost on the Desert
53 Drums
54 Custer
55 Boa Constrictor
56 Apache Tears
57 Accidentally on Purpose
58 Joe Bean
59 Happy to Be With You
60 Cup of Coffee
61 In the Jailhouse Now
62 The Shifting, Whispering Sands, Part 2
63 It Was Jesus
64 ’Cause I Love You (instrumental)




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