Johnny Cash – Starkville City Jail (Guitar)

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Well I left my motel room down at the Starkville Motel

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The town had gone to sleep and I was feelin' fairly well

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I strolled along the sidewalk 'neath the sweet magnolia trees

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I was whistlin', pickin' flowers, swayin' in the southern breeze

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I found myself surrounded one policeman said that's him

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Come along, wild flowerchild don't you know that it's 2 AM?

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They're bound to get you

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Cause they got a curfew

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And you go to the Starkville City jail

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Well they threw me in the car and started driving into town

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I said What the hell did I do? He said Shut up and sit down

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Well they emptied out my pockets took my pills and guitar picks

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I said wait my name is aww shut up well I sure was in a fix

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The sergeant put me in a cell then he went home for the night

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I said Come back here you so and so I ain't bein' treated right

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Well they're bound to get you

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Cause they got a curfew

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And you go to the Starkville City Jail

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I started pacin' back and forth, and now and then I'd yell

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And kick my forty dollar shoes against the steel door of my cell

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I'd walk awhile and kick awhile and all night nobody came

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Then I sadly remembered they didn't even take my name

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At 8 AM they let me out I said gimme them things of mine

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They gimme a sneer and a guitar pick and a yella dandelion

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Well they're bound to get you

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Cause they got a curfew,

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And you go to the Starkville City Jail

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And you go to the Starkville City Jail