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Johnny Cash
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Ballad of the Harp Weaver
Son said my mother when I was knee high
You need of clothes to cover you and not a rag have I
There's nothing in the house to make a boy's britches
Nor shears to cut a cloth with nor thread to take stitches
There's nothing in the house but a leaf end of rye
And the harp with a with the woman's head nobody will by and she began to cry
That was in the early fall and when came the late fall
Son she said the sight of you makes your mother's blood crawl
Little skinny shoulder blades stickin' through your clothes
And where you get a jacket from God above knows
It's lucky for me lad your daddy's in the ground
And can't see the way I let his son go around and she made a queer sound
That was in the late fall when the winter came
I'd not a pair of bridges nor a shirt to my name
I couldn't go to school or out of doors to play
And all the other little boys passed our way
Son said my mother come climb into my lap
And I'll chave your little knees while you take a nap
And oh but we were silly for half an hour or more
Me with my long legs draggin' on the floor
I rocked rocked rocked to a mother goose rhyme
Oh but we were happy for half an hour's time
But there was I a great boy and what would folks say
To hear my mother singin' me to sleep all day in such a daft way
Men say the winter was bad that year fuel was scarce and food was dear
A wind with a wolf's head howled about our door
And we burned up the chairs and sat upon the floor
All that was left us was a chair we couldn't break
And the harp with the woman's head nobody would take for song or pity sake
The night before Christmas I cried with the cold
I cried myself to sleep like a two year old
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And in the deep night I felt my mother rise
And stare down upon me with love in her eyes
I saw my mother sitting on the one good chair
A light falling on her face from I couldn't tell where
Looking nineteen and not a day older
And the harp with the woman's head leaned against her shoulder
Her thin fingers moving in the thin tall strings
Were weave weave weaving wonderful things
Many bright threads from where I couldn't see
Were running through the harp strings rapidly
And gold threads whistlin' through my mother's hands
I saw the web grow and the pattern expand
She wove a child's jacket and when it was done
She laid it on the floor and wove another one
She wove a red cloak so regal to see
She's made it for a king's son I said and not for me but I knew it was for me
She wove a pair of bridges and quicker than that
She wove a pair of boots a little cocked hat
She wove a pair of mittens she wove a little blouse
She wove all night in the still cold house
She sang as she worked and the harp strings spoke
But her voice never faltered and the thread never broke
But when I awoke there sat my mother
With the harp against her shoulder lookin' nineteen and not a day older
A smile about her lips and a light about her head
And her hands in the harp strings frozen dead
And piled up beside her toppling to the skies
Were the clothes of a king's son just my size
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Johnny Cash Miscellaneous 7 Album songs1.WALK THE LINE2.What Is Truth?3.WHY ME, LORD4.Wreck Of The Ol' '975.tennessee flat top box6.Jackson - Live At The Paramount Theatre, NJ/19907.Jackson (1990/Live At the Paramount Theatre, NJ)8.You and Me9.I Talk to Jesus Every Day10.No Need to Worry (Live in Denmark)11.The City of New Orleans12.Long-Legged Guitar-Pickin' Man13.I Got a Woman14.It Takes One to Know Me15.Waiting On the Far Side Banks of Jordan16.Folks Out On the Road17.The Highwayman18.Ghost Riders In The Sky - Live On VH1 Storytellers/199819.Worried Man - Live On VH1 Storytellers/199820.Family Bible - Live On VH1 Storytellers/199821.Don't Take Your Guns To Town - Live On VH1 Storytellers/199822.Funny How Time Slips Away - Live On VH1 Storytellers/199823.Flesh And Blood - Live On VH1 Storytellers/199824.Crazy - Live On VH1 Storytellers/199825.Night Life - Live On VH1 Storytellers/199826.Drive On - Live On VH1 Storytellers/199827.Me And Paul - Live On VH1 Storytellers/199828.I Still Miss Someone - Live On VH1 Storytellers/199829.Always On My Mind - Live On VH1 Storytellers/199830.Folsom Prison Blues - Live On VH1 Storytellers/199831.On the Road Again (Live)32.Unchained - Live On VH1 Storytellers/199833.On The Road Again - Live On VH1 Storytellers/199834.Busted - Mono Version35.This Train Is Bound for Glory36.The Banks of the Ohio37.Ballad Of A Teenage Queen - mono38.Big River (Mono)39.I Heard That Lonesome Whistle40.A Boy Named Sue (Live in Denmark)41.I Guess Things Happen That Way - Live42.No Need to Worry (with The Carter Family & The Statler Brothers) (Live)43.Bird On A Wire - Live44.The L and N Don't Stop Here Anymore45.A Boy Named Sue (Live in Denmark) - Live46.That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine47.Prisoner's Song48.Darlin' Companion(Live in Denmark) - Live49.The Old Account Was Settled Long Ago (Live)50.Daddy Sang Bass (Live)51.San Quentin (Reprise) (Live)52.Folsom Prison Blues/I Walk The Line/Ring Of Fire/The Rebel-Johnny Yuma (Live)53.The Long Black Veil/Give My Love To Rose (Live)54.Blistered (Live)55.Wildwood Flower (Live)56.Cup of Coffee - Mono Version57.Joe Bean - Mono Version58.Folsom Prison Blues - Mono Version59.16 Tons60.'Cause I Love You (instrumental)61.I Still Miss Someone - Mono Version62.The Wreck of the Old 9763.I Walk the Line - Mono Version64.The Little Drummer Boy - Mono Version65.I Got a Woman (with June Carter Cash) - Live66.Joe Bean - Live67.Give My Love to Rose (Live with June Carter)68.This Ole House (Live)69.I'm Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail (Live)70.Clementine - Mono Version71.The Great Speckle Bird - Mono Version72.I Love You Because (Bonus Track)73.Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord) - Live at The White House, Washington D.C., April 17, 197074.I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday) - Live at Exit Inn, Nashville, Tenn75.Ring Of Fire - Live at Annex 14 NCO Club, Long Binh, Vietnam, January 196976.Cocaine Blues - Live at Annex 14 NCO Club, Long Binh, Vietnam, January 196977.Remember The Alamo - Live at Annex 14 NCO Club, Long Binh, Vietnam, January 196978.Folson Prision Blues79.Ring of Fire - Mono Version80.I'd Still Be There - Mono Version81.Tennessee Stud - Live Album Version82.Boy Named Sue - Live83.The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face84.I Walk The Line - Single Version85.Without Love86.Ballad of the Harp Weaver ( Modify) 87.The Ballad of Annie Palmer88.Too Little, Too Late89.You've Got a New Light Shining In Your Eyes90.Dear Mrs.91.Wonderful Time Up There92.Thing Called Love93.If the Good Lord's Willing (& The...)94.Gone Girl95.Orance Blossom Special96.I'm Never Gonna Roam Again97.Belshazzar (intro)98.I Walk the Line (Revisited)99.Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)
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