[ti:Hey Porter]
[ar:Johnny Cash]
[al:The Essential Johnny Cash]
[offset:0]
[00:01.22]Artist:johnny cash
[00:02.09]Songs Title:hey porter
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[00:05.97]Hey porter!
[00:06.65]Hey porter!
[00:07.77]Would you tell me the time?
[00:10.14]How much longer will it be till we cross that Mason Dixon Line?
[00:14.01]At daylight would ya tell that engineer to slow it down?
[00:16.88]
[00:18.00]Or better still, just stop the train,
[00:20.12]Cause I wanna look around.
[00:21.65]
[00:23.08]Hey porter!
[00:23.90]Hey porter!
[00:25.47]What time did you say?
[00:27.22]How much longer will it be till I can see the light of day?
[00:31.09]When we hit Dixie will you tell that engineer to ring his bell?
[00:34.02]
[00:34.91]And ask everybody that ain't asleep to stand right up and yell.
[00:39.90]
[00:56.82]Hey porter!
[00:57.63]Hey porter!
[00:58.75]It's getting light outside.
[01:00.81]This old train is puffin' smoke, and I have to strain my eyes.
[01:03.93]But ask that engineer if he will blow his whistle please.
[01:08.55]Cause I smell frost on cotton leaves and I feel that Southern breeze.
[01:13.85]Hey porter!
[01:14.60]Hey porter!
[01:15.61]Please get my bags for me.
[01:17.64]I need nobody to tell me now that we're in Tennessee.
[01:21.51]tell Go that engineer to make that lonesome whistle scream,
[01:24.19]
[01:25.58]We're not so far from home so take it easy on the steam.
[01:30.26]
[01:47.51]Hey porter!
[01:48.19]Hey porter!
[01:49.19]Please open up the door.
[01:51.13]When they stop the train I'm gonna get off first
[01:53.37]Cause I can't wait no more.
[01:55.05]Tell that engineer I said thanks alot, and I didn't mind the fare.
[01:58.92]I'm gonna set my feet on
[02:00.30]Southern soil and breathe that Southern air.