{"id":945,"date":"2006-07-16T13:11:42","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T18:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=945"},"modified":"2006-07-16T13:11:42","modified_gmt":"2006-07-16T18:11:42","slug":"music-american-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"Music: American V"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t listen to music radio much, and when I do hear something new it’s at the reccomendation of friends, with few exceptions. THis is one: Johnny Cash’s last album<\/a>, finished a coupld years posthumously. <\/p>\n

I listened to this driving from place to place saturday, and I kept going back to track 3, Johnny’s last song, “The 309”<\/p>\n

It should be a while before I see doctor Death
\nSo, it would sure would be nice if I could get my breath
\nWell, I’m not the cryin’, nor the whinin’ kind
\n’til I hear the whistle of the 309, of the 309, of the 309
\nPut me in my box on the 309<\/p>\n

Take me to the depot, put me to bed
\nBlow an electric fan on my gnarly ol’ head
\nEverybody take a look, see, I’m doin’ fine
\nThen load my box on the 309
\nOn the 309, on the 309
\nPut me in my box on the 309<\/p>\n

Hey, sweet baby, kiss me hard
\nDraw my bath water, sweep my yard
\nGive a drink of my wine to my jersey cow
\nI wouldn’t give a hoot-and-nail for my journey now
\nOn the 309, on the 309<\/p>\n

I hear the sound of a railroad train
\nThe whistle blows and I’m gone again
\nHitman, take me higher than a Georgia pine
\nStand back children, it’s the 309
\nIt’s the 309, it’s the 309
\nPut me in my box on the 309<\/p>\n

A chicken in the pot and turkey in the corn
\nAin’t felt this good since Jubilee morn’
\nTalk about luck, well, I got mine
\nAsthma comin’ down like the 309
\n*haaaaaaaa…..*<\/p>\n

Write me a letter, sing me a song
\nTell me all about it, what I did wrong
\nMeanwhile, I will be doin’ fine
\nThen load my box on the 309
\nOn the 309, on the 309
\nGonna get outta here on the 309<\/p>\n

My friend Jenny <\/a>(great new material, she’s been out of commission for a while but promises to update more often now) tells me not to feel sorry for Johnny, he had a good life. Well, yeah, he did, but songs like this get to me. I think it’s because songs like this are like a lens that refocus our own sorrows, gone blurry in the rearview. Snap that last couple moments with Grampa into clear focus. Clarify the memory of your cousin’s burial in Bahn, seen via videotape some twenty years ago. If you liked Johnny, you should add this to your collection. It’s worth it, well worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t listen to music radio much, and when I do hear something new it’s at the reccomendation of friends, with few exceptions. THis is one: Johnny Cash’s last album, finished a coupld years posthumously. I listened to this driving from place to place saturday, and I kept going back to track 3, Johnny’s last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}