Johnny Cash Ride This Train (Part 7) Lyrics:
Ride this train to Dyess Arkansas see this
cottonland Some of us are so poor now you'd have
to sell 'em a sack of fertilizer To raise an
umbrella They grade the cotton according to the
length and strength of the fibre And they been
raisin' a lot of fair to middlin' grade here which
ain't good But there was a time Yeah there was a
time when the cotton grew tall Not far from here I
had the finest plantation you ever saw About 600
acres of the finest cottonland in the country Now
I believe this was about 1855 and I had a bumper
crop that year I had the best bunch of slaves you
ever saw and I treated 'em right Well a lot of em
even stayed with me after the war But gettin' back
to what I was gonna tell you See I have a rule
that all the slaves got to be back in out of the
fields And accounted for by sundown every day And
one day when they came in there was one short Well
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I found out right away that it was old uncle Moses
that was missin' And figured that somethin' might
have happened to him old as he was So I went out
into the cottonfield to look for him Well uncle
Moses was way down at the end of the road sittin'
on his cottonsack Well I walked up and said Uncle
Moses don't you know the rule That you're supposed
to be punished if you're not back in and accounted
for by dark And he said Boss Jack I know that sir
But I was pickin' along on my road And all of a
sudden somethin' seemed to come over me And the
finest words started comin' through my head and
the finest music So I rememorized them words and
that music till I had it all in my head Now that I
got the song all through I guess Boss Jack I was
ready to take my punishment Well I didn't hardly
know what to say But I asked Uncle Moses to sing
that song for me And he stood up there and for the
first time he sang Swing Low Sweet Chariot Well
after that I kinda laid old Uncle Moses off and
let him peddle around the house And every night at
dark you could hear him sing And he sang another
song once in a while that made me feel awful proud
Lyrics: Ride This Train (Part 7), Johnny Cash [end]