Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues - Karaoke Version from Zoom Karaoke

This karaoke version has been produced by Zoom Karaoke and the recording rights are owned and controlled by Zoom Entertainments Limited - Song lyrics: EARLY ONE MORNIN’ WHILE MAKIN’ THE ROUNDS TOOK A SHOT OF COCAINE AND I SHOT MY WOMAN DOWN WENT RIGHT HOME AND I WENT TO BED I STUCK THAT LOVIN’ FORTY-FOUR BENEATH MY HEAD GOT UP NEXT MORNIN’ AND I GRABBED THAT GUN TOOK A SHOT OF COCAINE AND AWAY I RUN MADE A GOOD RUN BUT I RUN TOO SLOW THEY OVERTOOK ME DOWN IN JUAREZ, MEXICO LAID IN THE HOP JOINTS TAKIN’ THE PILL IN WALKED THE SHERIFF FROM JERICHO HILL HE SAID, WILLY LEE YOUR NAME IS NOT JACK BROWN YOU’RE THE DIRTY HOP THAT SHOT YOUR WOMAN DOWN I SAID YES, SIR MY NAME IS WILLY LEE IF YOU’VE GOT A WARRANT JUST A-READ IT TO ME SHOT HER DOWN BECAUSE SHE MADE ME SORE I THOUGHT I WAS HER DADDY BUT SHE HAD FIVE MORE WELL, I WAS ARRESTED I WAS DRESSED IN BLACK THEY PUT ME ON A TRAIN AND THEY TOOK ME BACK I HAD NO FRIENDS FOR TO GO MY BAIL THEY SLAPPED MY DRIED-UP CARCASS IN THAT COUNTY JAIL GOT UP NEXT MORNIN’ ’BOUT A-HALF PAST NINE I SPIED THE SHERIFF COMIN’ DOWN THE LINE HOPPED AND HE COUGHED AS HE CLEARED HIS THROAT HE SAID, COME ON YOU DIRTY HOP INTO THAT DISTRICT COURT INTO THE COURTROOM MY TRIAL BEGAN WHERE I WAS HANDLED BY TWELVE HONEST MEN JUST BEFORE THE JURY STARTED OUT I SAW THAT LITTLE JUDGE COMMENCE TO LOOK ABOUT IN ABOUT FIVE MINUTES IN WALKED THE MAN HOLDING THE VERDICT IN HIS RIGHT HAND THE VERDICT READ IN THE FIRST DEGREE I HOLLERED LAWDY, LAWDY HAVE MERCY ON ME THE JUDGE HE SMILED AS HE PICKED UP HIS PEN NINETY-NINE YEARS IN THE FOLSOM PEN NINETY-NINE YEARS UNDERNEATH THAT GROUND I CAN’T FORGET THE DAY I SHOT MY WOMAN DOWN COME ALL YOU HOPS AND LISTEN UNTO ME LAY OFF THAT WHISKEY AND LET THAT COCAINE BE...
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