Starkville city jail lyrics

Artist  : Johnny cash 
Song : Starkville city jail
 



Well, I left my motel room, down at the
Starkville Motel,

The town had gone to sleep and I was feelin'
fairly well.

I strolled along the sidewalk 'neath the sweet
magnolia trees;



I was whistlin', pickin' flowers, swayin' in the
southern breeze.

I found myself surrounded; one policeman said:
"That's him.

Come along, wild flower child. Don't you know
that it's two a.m."



They're bound to get you.

'Cause they got a curfew.

And you go to the Starkville City jail.



Well, they threw me in the car and started
driving into town;

I said: "What the hell did I do?" He said: "Shut
up and sit down."



Well, they emptied out my pockets, took my pills
and guitar picks.

I said: "Wait, my name is..." "Awe shut up."
Well, I sure was in a fix.



The sergeant put me in a cell, then he went home
for the night;

I said: "Come back here, you so and so; I ain't
bein' treated right."



Well, they're bound to get you, cause they got a
curfew,

And you go to the Starkville City Jail.



I started pacin' back and forth, and now and then
I'd yell,

And kick my forty dollar shoes against the steel
floor of my cell.

I'd walk awhile and kick awhile, and all night
nobody came.



Then I sadly remembered that they didn't even
take my name.

At 8 a.m. they let me out. I said: "Gimme them
things of mine!"

They gave me a sneer and a guitar pick, and a
yellow dandelion.



They're bound to get you, 'cause they got a
curfew,

And you go to the Starkville City Jail.