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Hello From Johnny Cash

from Springtime in a Foreign City by sonofmel

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Hello From Johnny Cash was born on September 12, 2003 when a song came in on an early evening haze of reddening city lights and a faraway train... they perked me into writing and 3 verses came down the track and something of a chorus, 'til I went out an hour later and a friend told me J.C. died... I knew then what the song was about and rewrote the train chorus, replaced a line in the first verse and added a fourth, the story of when my dad met Johnny Cash... I only tell that one live...

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Hello From Johnny Cash

His words came fighting, like thunder and lightning
Now his songs are acted out in mime
The singer, he ran out of time
And the clock keeps ticking like a bomb on the wall
I wish it would stop but it’ll outlive us all
All aboard, the Harvest Moon

Workers rattle off their rights while the seeker says he’s got sight
All make charades of being happy in their own world
While the world goes anywhere but right
An answer came dressed in the color of gloom
Giving voice to those who felt misused and marooned
All aboard, the Harvest Moon

Chorus:
All aboard the Harvest Moon
The train carrying loved ones always leaves too soon
All aboard, the Harvest Moon

No one returns from the tomb
Leaving room for doubt to consume
The visionary’s glance of another spring
Goes down like a flaming sun in ruin
And the conductor rushes up a creaking ladder
Preaching, “we’ll all be better off in the hereafter”
All aboard, the Harvest Moon

Chorus

My father met you under the same blue sky
I stand under and in the ground you lie
How he told you maybe I was your biggest fan
You took the time to shake his calloused hand
You said be sure to tell your boy from me,
Hello from Johnny Cash, now you're on that train they call
the Harvest Moon

credits

from Springtime in a Foreign City, track released May 1, 2017
Written by Sonofmel: guitar, vocals, harmonica
Bass: Justin Rieken
Accordion: Emily Melcher
Percussion: Peter Anderson

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sonofmel Hayward, Wisconsin

Sometimes it takes traveling far from home to find out where one comes from... after combing the world for signs of the sacred among paths of the profane, Sonofmel returns with fistfuls of chords wrapped up in verse that declare though trouble never starves, somewhere high above the maladies of modern man, the sky is still as blue as when Adam first kissed Eve... ... more

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