My Name is John J-Kelly Harrell

[ti:My Name Is John Jo Hannah] [ar:Kelly Harrell/Earl Scruggs] [al:Lost Highway] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Name Is John Jo Hannah - Kelly Harrell [00:10.17]Written by：Harrell [00:20.34]My name is John Johannah I come from buffalo town [00:25.38]For nine long years I've traveled this wide wide world around [00:30.44]Through ups and downs and miseries and some good days I've saw [00:35.28]But I never knew what misery was till I went to Arkansas [00:40.15]I went up to the station the operator to spy [00:45.16]Told him my situation and where I wanted to ride [00:50.01]Said hand me down five dollars lad a ticket you shall draw [00:54.74]That'll land you safe by railway in the state of Arkansas [00:59.52]I rode up to the station I chanced to meet a friend [01:04.62]Alan Catcher was his name although they called him cain [01:09.14]His hair hung down in rat tails below his under jaw [01:13.74]He said he run the best hotel in the state of Arkansas [01:18.54]I followed my companion to his respected place [01:23.44]Saw pity and starvation was pictured on his face [01:28.22]His bread was old corn dodgers his beef I could not chaw [01:33.00]He charged me fifty cents a day in the state of Arkansas [01:37.75] [01:57.00]I got up that next morning to catch that early train [02:01.67]He says don't be in a hurry lad [02:04.01]I have some land to drain [02:06.33]You'll get your fifty cents a day [02:08.71]And all that you can chaw [02:10.96]You'll find yourself a different lad when you leave old Arkansas [02:15.64]I worked six weeks for the son of a gun [02:18.02]Alan Catcher was his name [02:20.30]He stood seven feet two inches as tall as any crane [02:25.20]I got so thin on Sassafras tea [02:27.62]I could hide behind a straw [02:29.81]You bet I was a different lad when I left old Arkansas [02:34.52]Farewell you old swamp rabbits also you dodger pills [02:39.28]Likewise you walking skeletons you old Sassafras [02:44.06]If you ever see my face again [02:46.59]I'll hand you down my paw [02:48.76]I'll be looking through a telescope from home to Arkansas