{"id":300,"date":"2021-05-10T03:08:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T03:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/?p=300"},"modified":"2026-07-10T05:02:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:02:53","slug":"folsom-prison-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/folsom-prison-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Folsom Prison Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre class=\"tK8GG Ty_RP\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">[Verse 1] - - - <span class=\"fsG7q\">I [C] hear the train a-coming, it's rolling round the bend,  <\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\">and I ain't seen the sunshine since [C7] I don't know when<\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\">I'm [F] stuck in Folsom Prison, and time keeps draggin' [C] on, b<\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\">ut that [G7] train keeps a-rollin' on down to San [C] Antoine\r\n<\/span> \r\n[Verse 2] - - - <span class=\"fsG7q\">When I was just a baby, my Mama told me 'Son, <\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\">always be a good boy; don't ever play with guns.'  <\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\">But I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.  W<\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\">hen I hear that whistle blowin' I hang my head and cry.\r\n<\/span> \r\n[Verse 3] - - - <span class=\"fsG7q\">I bet there's rich folks eatin' in a fancy dining car.   <\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\">They're probably drinking coffee and smoking big cigars.  <\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\">Well, I know I had it coming, I know I can't be free, b<\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\">ut those people keep a moving, and that's what tortures me\r\n<\/span>\r\n[Verse 4] - - - <span class=\"fsG7q\">Well, if they [C] freed me from this prison, if that railroad train was mine;  <\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\">I bet I'd move it on a little [C7] farther down the line.  [F]  <\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\">Far from Folsom Prison, that's where I want to [C]  stay - <\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\">And I'd [G7] let that lonesome whistle blow my blues [C] away\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n<p><code class=\"yqhFQ\"><\/code><\/p>\n<pre class=\"tK8GG Ty_RP\"><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Verse 1] &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; I [C] hear the train a-coming, it&#8217;s rolling round the bend, and I ain&#8217;t seen the sunshine since [C7] I don&#8217;t know whenI&#8217;m [F] stuck in Folsom Prison, and time keeps draggin&#8217; [C] on, but that [G7] train keeps a-rollin&#8217; on down to San [C] &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/folsom-prison-blues\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Folsom Prison Blues<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,13,116,117,272],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bass-guitar-night","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-moselele-credits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31947,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/31947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}