Johnny Cash
Album: VH1 Storytellers: Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson (live)
Track: Always on My Mind
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Always on My Mind Lyrics (Thompson, Christopher, James)
Maybe, I didn't love you
Quite as often as I could have
Maybe, I didn't treat you
Quite as good as I should have
If I made you feel second best
Girl, I'm sorry I was blind
You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
Maybe I didn't hold you
All those lonely, lonely times
I guess, I never told you
That I'm so happy that you're mine
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time
And you were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasn't died
And give me, give me one more chance
To keep you satisfied
I'll keep you satisfied
-Solo-
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time
And you were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
Yeah ha - ha, all right
Spoken:
Well you know, so many people say - ah, come up and say, my father was in prison with you - my father was in prison with you? Yeah, all right, I hear that, I hear a lot about. Actually I - ah, I wrote "Folsom Prison Blues" one night after a - one night after I saw a movie, called "Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison".
I was in the Air Force in Germany, 1952, when I wrote it. The thing then was to hope someday I could sing on the radio, you know, to sing a song on the radio (yeah). And so I didn't, - I never thought about recording a song, when I - when I wrote it. But I wrote it as if I - I tried to write it as if I - ah, where a criminal, you know (yeah) - you where on the stretch, I know - yeah, here was a - here was a real stretch so, and I thought about what is the most evil thing, a man - oh evil a reason a man can do for killing somebody and I figured, just to watch him die, you know, might be a pretty good evil reason - that's I see, that looks like, yeah.
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