[Official Lyrics]
I hear the train a comin' it's rollin 'round the bend
and I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when.
I'm stuck in Folsom Prison, and time keeps draggin' on.
But that train keeps a movin' on down to-San-An-Tone
When I was just a baby my mame told me,
"Son Always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns."
But I shot a man in Reno,
Just to watch him die.
When I hear the whistle blowin' I hang my head and cry.
Well, if they freed me from this prison,
if that railroad train was mine.
I bet I'd move it all a little farther down the line.
Far from Folsom Prison, that's where I want to stay.
And I'd let that lonesome whistle,
blow my blues away.
Performed:
- 1/1/97 Reno, NV
- 1/4/97 Reno, NV