My Name Is John Johanna-Preston Young

[ti:My Name Is John Johanna] [ar:Kelly Harrell] [al:Original American Folksongs Vol. 8] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Name Is John Johanna - Preston Young [00:20.69]My name is John Johanna [00:23.20]I came from Buffalo town [00:25.64]For nine long years [00:26.78]I've traveled this wide wide world around [00:30.63]Through ups and downs and miseries [00:33.16]And some good days I saw [00:35.46]But I never knew what misery was [00:37.89]'Til I went to Arkansas [00:40.39]I went up to the station [00:42.74]The operator to find [00:45.18]Told him my situation and where I wanted to ride [00:49.96]Said Hand me down five dollars [00:51.96]Lad a ticket you shall draw [00:54.71]That'll land you safely railway [00:57.10]In the state of Arkansas [00:59.61]I rode up to the station [01:01.84]Then chanced to meet a friend [01:03.92] [01:04.55]Alan Catcher was his name [01:06.68]Although they called him Cain [01:09.05]His hair hung down in rat tails below his under jaw [01:13.66]He said he run the best hotel [01:15.97]In the state of Arkansas [01:18.47]I followed my companion [01:20.77]To his respected place [01:23.20]Saw pity and starvation was pictured on his face [01:27.94]His bread was old corn dodgers [01:30.37]His beef I could not chaw [01:32.70]He charged me fifty cents a day [01:35.04]In the state of Arkansas [01:37.11] [01:56.36]I got up that next morning [01:58.67]To catch that early train [02:01.03]He said Don't be in a hurry lad [02:03.25]I have some land to drain [02:05.67]You'll get your fifty cents a day [02:08.06]And all that you can chaw [02:10.32]You'll find yourself a different lad [02:12.61]When you leave old Arkansas [02:14.99]I worked six weeks for the son of a gun [02:17.37]Alan Catcher was his name [02:19.65]He stood seven feet two inches [02:21.96]As tall as any crane [02:24.33]I got so thin on sassafras tea [02:26.64]I could hide behind a straw [02:29.01]You bet I was a different lad [02:31.32]When I left old Arkansas [02:33.64]Farewell you old swamp rabbits [02:36.04]Also you dodger pills [02:38.33]Likewise you walking skeletons [02:40.79]You old sassafras hills [02:43.17]If you ever see my face again [02:45.52]I'll hand you down my paw [02:47.82]I'll be lookin' through a telescope [02:50.02]From home to Arkansas