Johnny Cash – Ballad Of Barbara (Guitar)

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In a southern town where I was born

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That's where I got my education

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I worked in the fields and I walked in the woods

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And I wondered at creation

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I recall the sun in a sky of blue

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And the smell of green things growin'

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And I lived everyday and I lived anyway

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Anyway the wind was blowin'

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But then I heard of a cultured city life

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Breath-takin' lofty steeples

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And the day I called myself a man

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I left my land and my people

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And I rambled North and I rambled East

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And I tested and I tasted

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And a girl or two took me round and round

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But always left me wasted

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In a world that saw concrete and steel

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With nothin' green ever growin'

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Where the buildings hide the rising sun

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And stop the free wind from blowin'

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Where they sleep all day and they wake all night

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To a world of drink and laughter

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I met that girl that I thought would be

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The one that I was after

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In a soft blue gown and a formal tux

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Beneath that lofty steeple

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He said do you Barbra take this man

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Will you be one of his people

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And she said I will and she said I do

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And the world looked mighty pretty

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And we lived in a fancy downtown flat

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Cause she loved the noisy city

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Then the days grew cold beneath the yellow sky

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And I longed for green things growin'

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And I talked of home and my people there

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But she'd not agree to goin'

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Then her hazel eyes turned away from me

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With a look that wasn't very pretty

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And she turned into concrete and steel

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And she said I take the city

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Now the cars go by on the interstate

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And my pack is on my shoulder

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And I'm goin' home where I belong

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Much wiser now and older