Johnny Cash Cisco Clifton`s Fillin` Station Lyrics

Cisco Clifton`s Fillin` Station Lyrics

Cisco Clifton had a fillin' station

About a mile and a half from town

Most cars passed unless they were out of gas

So Cisco was always around



Regular gas was all that it sold

Except tobacco matches and oil

Other than that he fixed lots of flats

Keepin' Cisco rough hands soiled



He'd wipe the gas and check the air

In a hundred times a day

He patiently gave directions

On how to get to the state highway



Usually he'd give 'em water

Or a tyre or two some air

And once a big black Cadillac

Spent seven dollars there



He'd give anybody anything they'd ask

And lend anything he had

His tools are tyres bumper jacks or wire

To the good ones or the bad



In wintertime there was a depot stove

And a table for a checker game

And every mornin' at sunup

The same checker players came



So Cisco Clifton's fillin' station

Was always in the red

Personal loans were personally gone

But never a word was said



One mornin' at eight, them checker players

Heard a big bulldozer roar like a freight

And Cisco said I hope my kids stay fed

When they build that Interstate



He'd managed to pay for property

Where his little fillin' station sat

And friends still came for checker game

So Cisco settled for that



He wouldn't say so but Cisco knew

That the Interstate was too much to fight

But to keep his will and to pay his bills

He did odd jobs at night



He still opened up at sunrise

And the checker game went on

The cars flew past on highest gas

And the neighbors had sold out and gone



If a car ever did go by he was lost

And if they stopped they were treated the same

So at Cisco Clifton's fillin' station

There's a howdy and a checker game