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Johnny Cash - Folsom Prisom Blues 1959
La frase más famosa en esta canción es "le pegué un tiro a un hombre en Reno sólo para verle morir" Cash dijo que él escribió esta línea "tratando de pensar en la peor razón para matar a otra persona y de una manera inmediata me vino a la mente" (publicado en la revista Rolling Stone)
Esta canción da unas grandes razones que animan a la gente a no matar. Yo os doy un punto de reflexión. Escuchando Rap los jóvenes de hoy en día se agrupan en bandas con navajas y armas siempre buscando problemas territoriales pero, y aquí va el dato para la reflexión, 50 años después de la publicación de “Folsom Prison Blues” en Reno todavía no se ha disparado a nadie. ¿Rap o Country? Yo amigo lo tengo claro. |
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Johnny Cash - Folsom Prisom Blues Live.
Folsom Prison Blues es una de sus primeras canciones. Cash primero la grabó en los estudios de la Sun Records en 1956. Pero fue la versión de 1967 registrada en directo desde la Prisión, mucho más emocionante, más eléctrica y sobre todo, interpretada para los presos con una enorme complicidad, a quién parece que esté dedicada la letra a modo de moraleja, la que valió a Cash para definir a su personalidad de proscrito (outlaw) |
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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 blowin', I hang my head and cry
I see the rich folks eatin' 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
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I hear the train a comin´, it´s rolling round 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 blowing, I hang my head and cry
I bet there´s rich folks eating in a fancy dining car
They´re probably drinkin´ coffee and smoking big cigars
Well 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 they´d free me from this prison, if that railroad train was mine
I bet I´d move it on a little further 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
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