Cash, Johnny - Rowboat Lyrics

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oh my god, just found this.....Amen!!!!

Would have liked to have heard forcefield too, lot of good beck songs out there

This is one the best covers I’ve ever heard,Johnny Cash will make another artists song his ....he did it time & time again 🤘🏻

beck song

Johnny Cash....

um, good

Rowboat, row me to the shore
She don't wanna be my friend no more
She dug a hole in the bottom of my soul
She don't wanna be my friend no more

Pick me up, gimme some food to eat
In your truck, goin' no place
I'll be home, talkin' to nobody
You'll be strange, you'll be far away

Big fat moon
And my body's out of tune
With the burnin' waves
She's a billion years away
Dog food on the floor
And I been like this before
She is all
And everything else is small

Pick me up, gimme some alcohol
In your truck, playin' the radio
I'll be home with the gasoline
You'll be stoned, you'll be far away

Rowboat, row me to the shore
She don't wanna be my friend no more
She dug a hole in the bottom of my soul
She is all and everything else is small

When Johnny Cash does your song its no longer your song, but you live on knowing that the man just made you part of a legend

John Cash.

I love Johnny Cash but Beck’s original version sounds better because it’s stripped down and sounds raw.

I agree. Both are great though

I tried to listen to an ad on this but screwed it up once again like
I usually do. I got new shoes, that's for sure.
In that truck playin' that radio.
Just like this in LA, it's how we do it.
It's Buck Owens and Johnny Cash, it's the Bakersfield sound.
Bottles of gin broken on the supermarket floor.
Sometimes southern rockers bother comin' 'round my place
and sayin' so. Sure I'm Boston. Dogfood on the floor.
Twelve gallons of gasoline. Yow!

i love it

when he says big fat moon I get a big ol shiver

AGREED!👍

this song is so good that it draws from a deep seated dread within me. Like the comeup of a challenging acid trip

Sounds like from a dogs perspective

you kno when a cover version dropkicks the life out of an original.....

God bless Cash and Petty

Yeah don't bother trying to figure out which version is better, just listen to both versions over and over again with a smile.

Oh! I love the contrast that the C chord, accompanied by Cash's voice matching the note, brings to the first track of this album. Reminiscent (for me) of a few songs by Jerry Garcia / Robert Hunter / The Grateful Dead. Songs like Get Out My Life Woman, Stella Blue, and Simple Twist of Fate come to mind.

An unusual pairing of chords. Catches your ear and makes your brain go 'huh. That doesn't quite belong there... But it works!'

Johnny Cash you will forever live in our souls through your brilliant music and voice.

Fuck Tom Petty (but RIP), Cash should have collaborated with Beck.

Pretty much the perfect song.

Can't even imagine what a thrill it had to be for Beck when Johnny Cash decided to cover one of his perfect, gorgeous songs.
Gotta love BOTH Johnny Cash & Beck!

There is an interview where the interviewer shows Beck a video of Cash saying how much he liked rowboat, Beck actually starts crying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf5mJTuR04c

Yeah I can confirm, I remember when this came out. Beck cried.

johnny plays this well

Amazing

It should have been pretty amazing for Beck... He just did 3 albums (whose only Mellow Gold got him fame) and was messing around with Stereopathetic Soul Manure and BOOM Johny Cash make a cover of one of the song of that album.
Must feel weird and great...

@Thomas Moon
Well, I disagree, I prefer Beck version.

magicalxan You're dumb.

To be dumb doesn't include I have bad musical taste... I know lots of dumb people that listen to cool stuff...
And after all, go fuck yourself you moron!

I agree with you, just because the lemming above keeps parroting "Once Johnny Cash covered it , it became Johnny's song" just doesn't make it so...and yes, that punk little boy CAN go fuck himself...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf5mJTuR04c

I cant decide which version I love more.....beck covered by Mr Cash incredible!!!

THE BEAT, EVEN WHEN BEING REMADE, ALWAYS RETURNS TO THE ONE.

John Cash covering a beck tune. I love it..

+Dennis Campbell Once Johnny Cash covered a song it became his song

so good

Beck actually wrote it with him in mind. ;)

Who ever gave this song a thumbs down you don't know MUSIC.

It was probably Luke Bryan

Written by, Beck!!!

Absurd Johnny Cash did this song justice in everyway.

One of the best songs I've ever heard.

Written by beck

Here's a song that I never heard Johnny Cash sing before here he is backed by Tom Petty and The heartbreakers. I really enjoy it ! Bonus background music.

It's a cover of a Beck song.

+Dorothy Saltel  i didn`t know that Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers backed him. thanx for the info. : )

Johnny Cash, Beck, and Tom Petty all involved in one song? EPIC

captaingymshorts ... Tom Petty?

Yes, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers were Johnny's band on recording sessions for this album.
So, they are on every song on Unchained

Johnny makes this song magnificent.

@aerialgymnast10 Johnny Cash had the gift to make covers into genuine ones!

Nice! Beck is amazing! Such a simple heartfelt song. What an honor to have it sung by such a legend!

To think it was posted two days before I went looking for it. Impeccable timing. Thank You.