Let Him Roll-Johnny Cash

[ti:Let Him Roll] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town and Water from the Wells of Home] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Let Him Roll - Johnny Cash (约翰尼·卡什) [00:14.18]Let him roll boys let him roll [00:18.68] [00:21.27]I bet he's gone to dallas rest his soul [00:25.44] [00:28.26]Now he was a wino tried and true [00:31.17] [00:31.96]Done about everything there is to do [00:34.11] [00:35.09]He worked on freighters he worked in bars [00:37.83] [00:38.37]He worked on farms 'n he worked on cars [00:41.20] [00:43.06]Now it was white port whine that put that look in his eye [00:46.27] [00:46.78]That grown men get when they need to cry [00:49.16] [00:50.16]And we sat down on the curb to rest [00:52.70] [00:53.53]And his head just fell down on his chest [00:55.90] [00:57.97]He said "every single day it gets [01:01.37]Just a little bit harder to handle and yet" [01:04.28] [01:05.22]Then he lost the thread and his mind got cluttered [01:08.60]The words just rolled off down in the gutter [01:11.04] [01:13.41]He was a elevator man in a cheap hotel [01:16.28] [01:16.83]In exchange for the rent on a one room cell [01:19.74] [01:20.33]And he's years old before his time [01:23.06] [01:23.60]No thanks to the world and the white port wine [01:26.40] [01:28.31]And he said "son" he always called me son [01:31.21] [01:31.75]He said "life for you has just begun" [01:34.40] [01:35.17]And then he told me the story that i heard before [01:37.93] [01:38.73]How he fell in love with a dallas whore [01:41.16] [01:43.55]He could cut through the years to the very night [01:46.58] [01:47.28]That it all ended in a whore house fight [01:50.02] [01:50.58]And she turned his last proposal down [01:53.01] [01:54.03]In favor of being a girl about town [01:56.60] [01:58.69]Now it's been seventeen years right in line [02:01.59] [02:02.26]And he ain't been straight none of the time [02:04.66] [02:05.58]It's too many years of fightin' the weather [02:08.37] [02:09.26]And too many nights of not being together [02:11.49] [02:13.27]So he died [02:13.99] [02:16.83]Let him roll boys let him roll [02:21.28] [02:23.84]I bet he's gone to dallas rest his soul [02:28.02] [02:30.22]Let him roll boys let him roll [02:34.74] [02:37.43]He always thought that heaven [02:39.94] [02:40.99]Was just a dallas whore [02:43.14] [02:46.17]When they went through his personal affects [02:48.64] [02:49.52]In among the stubs from the welfare checks [02:52.08] [02:52.71]Was a crumblin' picture of a girl in a door [02:55.55] [02:56.17]An address in dallas and nothin' more [02:58.64] [03:01.02]Well the welfare people provided the priest [03:03.72] [03:04.29]And a couple from the mission down the street [03:06.67] [03:07.36]Sang amasing grace and nobody cried [03:10.57] [03:11.09]'Cept some lady in black way off to the side [03:13.89] [03:16.32]We all left and she's standing there [03:18.51] [03:19.40]The black veil covering her silver hair [03:21.73] [03:22.45]And one-eyed john said her name was alice [03:25.37] [03:26.49]She used to be a whore in dallas [03:28.34] [03:30.43]Let him roll boys let him roll [03:34.84] [03:37.79]I bet he's gone to dallas rest his soul [03:41.69] [03:43.73]Let him roll boys let him roll [03:48.44] [03:51.16]He always thought that heaven [03:53.40] [03:54.50]Was just a dallas whore [03:56.66] [03:57.17]Let him roll boys let him roll [04:01.56] [04:10.61]Let him roll