Georgia On A Fast Train - Live in Ireland

Ladies and gentlemen, please make welcome John Carter Cash

Well, on that cold and frosty morning, on the day that I was born

In that one-room sharecropper's shack

They said my mama left me

The day before she had me

Hit the road and never once looked back

And I'd like to mention

How my grandma's old-age pension

Is the reason that I'm standing here today

And I got all my country learnin'

A-milkin' and a-churnin'

Picking cotton, raising cane, and baling hay

And I've been to Georgia on a fast train, honey

And I wasn't born no yesterday

I got good Christian raisin'

And an eighth-grade education

There ain't no need in y'all to be a-treatin' me this way

Well, sweet Carolina

I don't guess I'll ever find

Another woman put together quite like you are

Like you are

I like the wiggle in your walk and

Your sweet country talkin'

And your brand-new shiny Plymouth ragtop car

Well, hurry up and wait

In this world of give and take

Seems like haste makes for waste most every time

But I declare to my soul

When I hear those ages roll

You better know that I'm gonna get my share of mine

Because I've been to Georgia on a fast train, honey

And I wasn't born no yesterday

I got good Christian raisin'

And an eighth-grade education

There ain't no need in y'all to be a-treatin' me this way