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Johnny Cash – Troublesome Waters | Track profile | Dork

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Johnny Cash
The Legend
Troublesome Waters

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Troublesome Waters

From The Legend

Track 14

3:49

Country Music Rock

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"Troublesome Waters" is a track by Johnny Cash, from the album The Legend. The track is 3:49 long. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Johnny Cash

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Lyrics

Troublesome Waters

Troublesome waters much blacker than night
Are hiding from view of the harbor's bright lights
Tossed in the turmoil of life's stormy sea
I cried to my Saviour, "Have mercy on me"

Then gently I'm feeling the touch of his hands
Guiding my boat in safely to land
Leading the way to heaven's bright shore
Troublesome waters I'm fearing no more

Troublesome waters around me do roll
They're rocking my boat and racking my soul
Loved ones are drifting and living in sin
The treacherous whirlpools are pulling them in

Then gently I'm feeling the touch of his hands
Guiding my boat in safely to land
Leading the way to heaven's bright shore
Troublesome waters I'm fearing no more

When troublesome waters are rolling so high
I'll lift up my voice and to heaven I'll cry
"My Lord, I am trusting give guidance to me"
"And steady my boat on life's troubled sea"

Then gently I'm feeling the touch of his hands
Guiding my boat in safely to land
Leading the way to heaven's bright shore
Troublesome waters I'm fearing no more
Troublesome waters I'm fearing no more

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Track details

From The Legend

3:49

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Album

Track number

14

1I Walk the Line
2There You Go
3Home of the Blues
4Ballad of a Teenage Queen
5Guess Things Happen That Way
6The Ways of a Woman In Love
7Don't Take Your Guns to Town
3:02
8Ring of Fire (Single Version)
2:36
9The Matador
2:44
10Understand Your Man
2:42
11The Ballad of Ira Hayes
4:08
12Orange Blossom Special
3:06
13The One On the Right Is On the Left
2:47
14Rosanna's Going Wild
1:58
15Folsom Prison Blues (Live)
2:43
16Daddy Sang Bass
2:20
17A Boy Named Sue (Live)
3:45
18What Is Truth
2:38
19Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
4:07
20Flesh and Blood
2:36
21Man In Black
2:52
22A Thing Called Love
2:33
23Kate
2:17
24Oney (Single Version)
3:05
25Any Old Wind That Blows
2:47
26One Piece At a Time (Single Version)
4:00
27(Ghost) Riders In the Sky
3:46
1Hey Porter
2Cry Cry Cry
3Luther Played the Boogie
4Get Rhythm
5Give My Love to Rose
6I Was There When It Happened
7Big River
8I Still Miss Someone
2:36
9Pickin' Time
1:57
10The Man On the Hill
2:07
11Five Feet High and Rising
1:45
12Tennessee Flat-Top Box
2:58
13I Got Stripes
2:04
14Troublesome Waters
3:49
15The Long Black Veil
3:05
16Dark As a Dungeon
2:27
17The Wall
2:09
1825 Minutes to Go
3:12
19Cocaine Blues (Live)
2:50
20Doin' My Time
21I Will Rock and Roll With You
2:51
22Without Love
2:29
23The Big Light
24Highway Patrolman
5:20
25I'm Never Gonna Roam Again
2:34
26When I'm Gray
3:32
27Forever Young
1The Wreck of the Old 97
2Rock Island Line
3Goodnight Irene
4Goodbye, Little Darlin'
5Born to Lose
6Walking the Blues
2:12
7Frankie's Man, Johnny
2:16
8Delia's Gone
3:00
9In the Jailhouse Now
2:21
10Waiting for a Train
2:08
11Casey Jones
3:02
12The Legend of John Henry's Hammer
8:25
13I've Been Working On the Railroad
3:27
14Sweet Betsy from Pike
3:18
15The Streets of Laredo
3:39
16Bury Me Not On the Lone Prairie
2:27
17Down In the Valley
3:10
18Wabash Cannonball
2:40
19The Great Speckle Bird
2:07
20Wildwood Flower
2:10
21Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)
2:32
22Pick a Bale o' Cotton
1:57
23Old Shep
2:23
24I'll Be All Smiles Tonight
2:47
25I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
2:39
26Time Changes Everything
1:49
1Keep On the Sunny Side
2:16
2Diamonds In the Rough
3:10
3(There'll Be) Peace In the Valley
2:49
4Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)
3:55
5Another Man Done Gone
2:36
6Pick the Wildwood Flower
2:58
7Jackson
2:45
8If I Were a Carpenter
3:00
9Girl from the North Country
3:41
10One More Ride
3:26
11You Can't Beat Jesus Christ
3:40
12There Ain't No Good Chain Gang
3:17
13We Ought to Be Ashamed
2:45
14Crazy Old Soldier
3:33
15That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine
2:48
16Who's Gene Autry?
3:51
17The Night Hank Williams Came to Town
18I Walk the Line (Revisited)
19Highwayman
3:03
20The Wanderer (feat. Johnny Cash)
21September When It Comes
22Tears In the Holston River
23Far Side Banks of Jordan
2:42
24It Takes One to Know Me
3:36

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