Johnny Cash – Transfusion Blues (Guitar)

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Early one morning while making the rounds

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Took a transfusion and I shot my woman down

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Went right home and I went to bed

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I stuck that loving 44 beneath my head

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Got up next morning and I grabbed that gun

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Took a transfusion and away I run

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Made a good run, but I run too slow

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They overtook me down in Juarez, Mexico

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Laid in the hot joint, taking the pill

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In walked the sheriff from Jericho Hill

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He said, "Willy Lee, your name is not Jack Brown

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You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down"

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Said, "Yes, oh yes, my name is Willy Lee

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If you've got a warrant, just read it to me"

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Shot her down because she made me slow

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I thought I was her daddy, but she had five more

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When I was arrested, I was dressed in black

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Put me on a train and they took me back

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They slapped my dried-up carcass in that county jail

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Into the courtroom, my trial began

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Where I was handled by twelve honest men

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Just before the jury started out

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I saw that little judge commenced to look about

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In about five minutes, in walked the man

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Holding the verdict in his right hand

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Verdict read "in the first degree"

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I hollered, "Lordy, Lordy, have a mercy on me"

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The judge he smiled as he picked up his been

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Ninety-nine years in the San Quentin pen

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Ninety-nine years underneath that ground

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I can't forget the day I shot my woman down

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Come all you gotta listen unto me

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Lay off that liquor and let that transfusion be