Joe Bean - Johnny Cash

Last time last time we were here at Folsom Prison
They were hanging Joe Bean
Is Joe still here Joe Bean
Hang the son of a b***h anyways right
Well they're hanging Joe Bean this morning for killing a man in Arkansas
Funny thing about it Joe Bean has never been to Arkansas
On top of that Joe Bean never heard of the man
In fact today is Joe Bean's twentieth birthday
See through the prison bars Joe Bean see where the gallows stand
Just twenty short years from the day you were born
You died by the hangman's hand
Yes they're hanging Joe Bean this morning for a shooting that he never did
He killed 20 men by the time he was 10
He was an unruly kid
Yes they're hanging Joe Bean for the one shooting that Joe Bean never did
Well Joe your mother is at the Capitol asking the governor for a stay
And it's hard on her 'cause she knows where you were
On that particular day
You were working Joe Bean hard working robbing the Santa Fe
Well the telegraph wires are humming
He said I can't set you free it's not up to me
But there's much Joe Bean
I'll do I'll join your mother in extending Birthday greetings to you
Happy Birthday Joe Bean
Alright
June June Carter
Let's get June out here
Let's get June Carter and the Tennessee Three back out right now