Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson (VH1 Storytellers)
Flesh & Blood Lyrics:
[Cash:] 1970 or '71, June and I went for a drive down to the country and went to a
place called, uh, Smithfield, Tennessee. Old Hickory, oh, no, not Old Hickory, what
was the name of that lake there? Uh, Cedar Hill Lake. Alright, anyway, uh, spent the
whole afternoon there. And it was like one of those magic days, you know, with the
sun just right, the temperature just right 'n' the breeze was just right 'n' she was
just right.
[Audience snickers.]
[Cash:] (Laughs.) And, um, I wrote a song... I let her drive on the way back. I wrote
a song called, "Flesh & Blood."
[Applause.]


[Cash:]
Beside a singin' mountain stream,
Where the willow grew,
Where the silver leaf of maple,
Sparkled in the mornin' dew,
I braided twigs of willows,
Made a string of buckeye beads.
But flesh and blood needs flesh and blood,
And you're the one I need.
Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood,
And you're the one I need.

I leaned against a bark of birch,
And breathed the honey dew.
Saw a northbound flock of geese,
Against a sky of baby blue.
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Beside the lily pads,
I carved a whistle from a reed.
Mother Nature's quite a lady,
But you're the one I need.
Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood,
And you're the one I need.

A cardinal sang just for me,
And I thanked him for the song.
Then the sun went slowly down the west,
And we had to move along.
These were some of the things,
On which my mind and spirit feed.
But flesh and blood needs flesh and blood,
And you're the one I need.
Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood,
And you're the one I need.

And when the day was ended,
I was very satisfied.
Though I knew ev'rything I touched,
Would wither and would die.
And love is all that will remain,
And grow from all these seed.
Mother Nature's quite a lady,
But you're the one I need.
Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood,
And you're the one I need.

[Applause.]

[FLESH & BLOOD]
[Written by: John R. Cash
Performed by: Johnny Cash
Appears on: VH1 Storytellers (Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson)]
Lyrics: Flesh & Blood, Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson
(VH1 Storytellers) [end]