 Folsom Prison Blues • Original • Johnny Cash • 1955
 Robert Earl Keen Whenever Kindness Fails
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Posted on 07/09/2015 5:43:15 PM PDT by Michael.SF.
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h !!Thanks, unique, for the cheering guys!
JimRed.....#400!!
Fledermaus.....#450!!
Am I too late for the thread?
Brian Eno/John Cale - Crime in the Desert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP1RF2v6MuI
I had a song I taped off the radio back in the ‘70’s that was a great crime song, which I never knew the name of, nor have I heard it again.
A couple of lines went:
“two miles from the border, I fell down from my horse, I was too weak and tired, I could not ride no more. Jim just kept on riding, the gold was in his sack, I pulled my .44 boys, and shot him in the back.
“The sheriff’s men rode up on me, and took me back to town...they tied a rope around my neck, my feet was off the ground, they kicked away my footing, and I commenced to fall, my soul will burn in Hell, boys, for messin’ with the law.”
Great song!
Ed
"Messin' with the Law" - Wayne Erbsen"Messin' with the Law" (Lyrics - Wayne Erbsen) - from a book excerpt
THAT’S IT!!! THANK YOU!
FREEPERS ROCK!
Thank you so much, Heart-Rest, I’ve been looking for that song forever!
See ya!
Ed
Great that your song was found, must have made a real impression on you to have remembered it that well for so long,
“Stagger Lee” tells of a barroom shooting in St. Louis in 1895. Lloyd Price’s version of the story was undoubtedly the biggest seller.
Bad Man's Blunder--The Kingston Trio
Am 640? You must be from LA, I do not recall them as a music station. I recall them as the Dodgers station!
I almost posted the Mississippi John Hurt version, but I do recall the Lloyd price version from when I was a kid.
loved it when I WAS jailbait, heh heh
In 1960, I had a tiny radio, shaped like a satellite, that got two radio stations fairly well—KRLA, a 50,000-watt station, whose transmitter was located in nearby South El Monte, and KFI, also 50,000 watts, with its transmitter and mast, built in 1948, over on the Orange County-LA County border. Dodger games—announced by Vin Scully—music and variety could be heard over KFI.
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