Missing Ol' Johnny Cash

[Verse 1: Merle Haggard]

Now Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two

Seemed to know just what to do

Invented the sound that hooked you and me

Added one to make the Tennessee Three

The Man In Black was long and lean

Hit the Billboard charts with a Teenage Queen

Had a television show, the best we'd seen

That chick-a-boom rock really made a splash

Missing ol' Johnny Cash

[Verse 2: Merle Haggard]

Well Johnny Cash was a friend of mine

Knew him well for a mighty long time

Shared the stage for many a show

Broke my heart to see him go

Cash had the fire of a thousand men

Lovin' life was his greatest sin

Treated his fans like the next of kin

Rappin' a bit, talkin' trash

Missing ol' Johnny Cash

[Verse 3: Willie Nelson]

Well now Johnny Cash wore black attire

And he fell into that Ring of Fire

He came up swinging like a Boy Named Sue

And he married June Carter and he fired Stu

He wrote his songs from deep within

And he hit the stage with a crooked grin

He and I were both Highwaymen

And that record became a smash

Well I'm missing ol' Johnny Cash

[Verse 4: Merle Haggard]

Johnny Cash never walked no line

Johnny Cash never did no time, but

When he sang a Folsom Prison Blues

You knew good and well he'd paid his dues

True, he always dressed in black

But he loved folks and they loved him back

Carried his pills in a brown paper sack

Well I don't care if they found his stash

I'm missin' old Johnny Cash

[Spoken: Merle Haggard]

Now is it really true that him and Roy Nichols

Rose Maddox, some people roasted hot dogs

In the back of a limousine with ice cream sticks?

I don't know, I said they set the curtains on fire in an

English hotel room just to warm their hands

Well, Willie, do you know anything about Cash?

[Spoken: Willie Nelson]

Well yeah, I know a lot of things about Cash

I'm not sure I should talk about it

But I checked with John

Asked him if it's OK, he said he didn't give a shit

One time he took a casket up to his hotel room

And got into it and called room service

I thought that was pretty funny

[Outro: Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson]

Now Cash had the fire of a thousand men

Lovin life was his greatest sin

Treated his fans like the next of kin

Rappin a bit, talkin trash

Missing ol' Johnny Cash