Johnny Cash Cocaine Blues Lyrics

Cocaine Blues Lyrics

Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds

I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down

I went right home and I went to bed

I stuck that lovin' 44 beneath my head



Got up next mornin' and I grabbed that gun

Took a shot of cocaine and away I run

Made a good run but I run too slow

They overtook me down in Juarez, Mexico



Late in the hot joints takin' the pill

In walked the sheriff from Jericho Hill

He said, "Willy Lee your name is not Jack Brown

You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down"



Said, "Yes, oh yes, my name is Willy Lee

If you've got a warrant just read it to me

Shot her down because she made me slow

I thought I was her daddy but she had five more"



In about five minutes in walked a man

Holding the verdict in his right hand

The verdict read in the first degree

I hollered, "Lordy, Lordy have mercy on me"



The judge he smiled as he picked up his pen

99 years in the Folsom pen

99 years underneath that ground

I can't forget the day I shot that bad bitch down



Come on you gotta' listen to unto me

Lay off that whiskey, let that cocaine be