DUBCC - Tha Connection > Outbound Connection
Name Trauma's pics, (No Cheating!)
Lincoln:
--- Quote from: Kill on October 22, 2004, 11:16:21 AM ---
--- Quote from: Lincoln The Mental Traveller on October 22, 2004, 10:55:56 AM ---
--- Quote from: Shallow on October 22, 2004, 09:45:00 AM ---Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues ("I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die") what a thug this guy was!
--- End quote ---
That's seriously one of the greatest songs and lines of all time.
--- End quote ---
yeah, i luv that line
--- End quote ---
I've actually heard that that was the first song ever to contain a line about killing someone.
Kill:
^ could be. at least the first officially released 'pop' song in the US i guess. and on top of that it's one of the mosty cynical and wittiest lines about killing somebody ever
Lincoln:
--- Quote from: Kill on October 22, 2004, 11:26:54 AM ---^ could be. at least the first officially released 'pop' song in the US i guess. and on top of that it's one of the mosty cynical and wittiest lines about killing somebody ever
--- End quote ---
Well it's pretty old, 1956, so for sure at least pop song in the US. The whole song has great 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 at Folsom Prison and time keeps draggin' on.
But that train keeps rollin' on down to San Antone.
When I was just a baby, my mama 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 that whistle blowin' I hang my head and cry.
I bet there's rich folk eatin' in a fancy dining car.
They're prob'ly drinkin' coffee and smokin' big cigars,
But I know I had it comin', I know I can't be free,
But those people keep a movin', and that's what tortures me.
Well, if they freed me from this prison, if that railroad train was mine,
I bet I'd move on over 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.
Kill:
word. i'm not into johnny cash's music alot personally, but that's just my taste...lyrics are very good. what's funny is how this one famous line seems so laconic and thew rest of the song is pretty emotional
Lincoln:
--- Quote from: Kill on October 22, 2004, 11:36:56 AM ---word. i'm not into johnny cash's music alot personally, but that's just my taste...lyrics are very good. what's funny is how this one famous line seems so laconic and thew rest of the song is pretty emotional
--- End quote ---
Yeah, but I think that what he was going for. It's that line that sets up a more serious subject. Maybe it's his way of saying that we need to be careful of how something we take in a laid back way could destroy our life.... or maybe I'm looking waaaaaaaaaay to deep into it.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version