Cash' new box set on 5 CDs, "Unearthed", contain known Bird On A Wire on 5th disc, but also out-take: Bird On A Wire in "live with orchestra" on 2nd disc.
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New cover from Johnny Cash' legacy
This should probably be a different thread but I'll tack it on here...I heard this really cool spoken word poem by J. Cash - he usually sang other peoples songs but seems to me The Man in Black should have written more. Has all the essential Cash ingredients...sinful love, religion, murder?? and a little bit of humorous country wisdom.
Death and Hell
She stepped down from her carriage at 10 Vermillion Street
I took off my roustabout and slung it to her feet
We went into her parlor and she cooled me with her fan
But said I'll go no further with a fantasy makin' man
I said I'd walk on Ponchatrain for what you have today
Just to drink from your deep well and I'll be on my way
She laughed and heaven filled the room and said this I give to you
This body's wisdom is the flesh, but here's a thing or two
Death and hell are never full
And neither are the eyes of men
Cats can fly from nine stories high
And pigs can see the wind
She let me make my pallet in the moonlight on the floor
Just outside of paradise but right in hell's back door
The image of her nibbled at the eye of my soul
My dreams were a hurricane and quite out of control
Then her voice came through the storm
It's more than flesh I deal
You will have to pay for any wisdom that you steal
I awoke to tinted windows and lavender and red
The first station of the cross just above my head
I awoke to gargoyles and a hard bench for my bed
Jesus Christ and Pontius Pilate were just above my head.
Death and hell are never full....
- Johnny Cash
Death and Hell
She stepped down from her carriage at 10 Vermillion Street
I took off my roustabout and slung it to her feet
We went into her parlor and she cooled me with her fan
But said I'll go no further with a fantasy makin' man
I said I'd walk on Ponchatrain for what you have today
Just to drink from your deep well and I'll be on my way
She laughed and heaven filled the room and said this I give to you
This body's wisdom is the flesh, but here's a thing or two
Death and hell are never full
And neither are the eyes of men
Cats can fly from nine stories high
And pigs can see the wind
She let me make my pallet in the moonlight on the floor
Just outside of paradise but right in hell's back door
The image of her nibbled at the eye of my soul
My dreams were a hurricane and quite out of control
Then her voice came through the storm
It's more than flesh I deal
You will have to pay for any wisdom that you steal
I awoke to tinted windows and lavender and red
The first station of the cross just above my head
I awoke to gargoyles and a hard bench for my bed
Jesus Christ and Pontius Pilate were just above my head.
Death and hell are never full....
- Johnny Cash
