Lost John-Blind Sonny Terry

[ti:Lost John] [ar:Blind Sonny Terry] [al:Red River] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.18]Lost John - Blind Sonny Terry [00:12.12]Gonna tell you the story [00:12.94]About old lost John [00:14.03] [00:18.57]Lost John was a boy that got loose [00:20.66]From a chain gang down in Louisiana [00:23.28] [00:27.15]About sixteen bloodhound took in after him [00:29.56] [00:31.01]Sheriffs deputies [00:31.94]And everybody else in the county [00:33.87]Chasin' him all across the swamp [00:37.84] [00:42.34]Lost John outrun the bloodhounds there [00:44.06]All night long it was long towards mornin' [00:49.68]He looked up to the tree there [00:51.55]And seen the lights from a house [00:53.02] [00:54.23]He didn't know whether the people inside [00:55.76]Was friends or were enemies [00:57.04] [00:58.71]So he wanted to go up to the house [01:00.21]So and asked if he could stay there [01:01.76]To get away from the bloodhounds [01:02.83] [01:03.84]He was afraid if he did go up there [01:04.78]That the people might set their dogs [01:08.66]Barking at him or shoot him down [01:11.14]With a Winchester rifle [01:12.22] [01:13.81]This is the story about lost John [01:15.41]