Cash, Johnny - Cisco Clifton's Filling Station Lyrics
It's not always the land that's the hardest and bitterest
It's the man who has the hard bitter attitude
Toward his fellow man or toward the land
Such is the case that you will find in this following song
About a man's attitude toward his fellow man and toward this land
I walked in the big yard to feel the warm sunshine
A ninety-nine year man stepped over to me
He offered a smoke and he said as I rolled it
Tomorrow I'm going to break out and go free
They watch us by sunlight they watch us by spotlight
But I know a way for a man to go free
Down under my cell I'm diggin' a tunnel
The walls of a prison will never hold me
My time would be over one year from today
His eyes blazed with fire and he looked right through me
Bitter but broken again he did say
They watch us by sunlight...
Next morning at breakfast the old man was missing
Then we all heard the rifles high up on the wall
He'd gone through the tunnel just like he had promised
And they said he was crying when they saw him fall
They watch us by sunlight...
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Cash, Johnny Cisco Clifton's Filling Station Comments
Kowalski lives!
Good ole Ballard Harris was the last owner of the Cisco station. I use to stop by on the way to Moab in my mountain bikin days. Ballard and his flock of peacocks paved that block top that goes from the bridge out past and around the bend. Ballard Harris outlived five wives...a legend.
My great grandfather was Ballard Harris
he was married twice ;)
The song is named after a gas station in the modern day ghost town of Cisco Utah.
I love the line "once a big black Cadillac spent seven dollars there". When I was a child (in the 60's) MOST of the time when my dad would pull in a service station for gas all he would get was ONE dollar's worth. That would get about 5 gallons of gas which would last about a week.
Maryann Anderson my dad too
As I was growing up in the 60's, I was lucky to work in a number of small "service stations" in a few different small towns. This song really does tell it like it was (for me at least). Pump-your-own-gas stations were unheard of back then. They may have been illegal back then, I don't remember.
When we weren't pumping gas, we we're fixin' flat tires, tuning up engines, or repairing cars. The shift always went by so quick because we were always so busy. I had a blast!!!
Great Song...(RIP)
My name is Clifton Cisco. True story. :-)
Humble,that became what we know to day as Mobil-Exxon fwiw.
this song is about my friend's great grandfather who died just a few years ago. He was a huge Johnny Cash fan and Johnny came to town and met him. I just thought that was pretty neat haha
My proudest possession: I have the album signed and also by Marshall and W.S. Never be afraid to cry. One hero who never let me down. The GeoffLane
@ernie27177 'All them fakers have been put in their corner álready a long time ago when THE HOSS Waylon Jennings wrote 'Are you sure Hank done it this way?'
Never liked that assembly line type of fake-country myself! Chapeau!
@ernie27177 : Who's Alan Jackson anyway?? You're right brother!
The Best!!!!! My Favorite Song!!!!!! Thanks for Posting.