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Johnny Cash

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About Johnny Cash

From the heart of the Deep South emerges a voice forever etched in the annals of country music: Johnny Cash. Born in Dyess, Arkansas, Cash's music resonates with the spirit of his origins, a place that permeates his storytelling. His songs are infused with the grit and honesty of the region, exploring themes of hardship, redemption, and the human condition. Cash's distinctive baritone and minimalist arrangements created a sound that was both raw and deeply moving, captivating audiences across generations.

Cash's connection to place is undeniable, with numerous songs referencing locations that shaped his life and artistry. From the penitent's lament in "Folsom Prison Blues," evoking Folsom, NV, to the small-town struggles depicted in "Starkville City Jail," Cash paints vivid portraits of American life. Even in songs like "A Boy Named Sue," the echoes of Dyess, AR, can be heard. His music transcends simple entertainment, offering a glimpse into the soul of a nation and solidifying his place as a true icon.

Locations in Lyrics

596 location references across 135 songs

Songs & Places

I Love You Tonite
San Francisco, CA Paris, TX Paris, KY Ottawa, IL Ottawa, KS Ottawa, OH
"We checked into the best hotels from San Francisco to Paris"
Kentucky Straight
Kentucky Kentucky Bourbon Trail, KY Maine San Francisco, CA California
"Up in Kentucky they make a whiskey"
God Bless Robert E.Lee
Confederacy Arlington, VA Cottonfields, MS Nashville, TN Atlanta, GA Appomattox, VA Richmond, VA Virginia The South Deep South
"When Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederacy"
All I Do Is Drive
Nashville, TN
"But if you'll tune into the Grand Ole Opry Saturday night"
Call me the breeze
California Georgia Georgia Peach Belt, GA
"Well I might go out to California"
Starkville City Jail (Live)
Starkville, MS Mississippi San Quentin, CA Folsom, CA El Paso, TX
"And you go to the Starkville City Jail"
Custer
Crow Agency, MT Lakota Territory, MT
"Now, I will tell you, buster, that I ain't a fan of Custer's"
Call Of The Wild
Bayou Country Gulf of Mexico Mississippi River
"Bayou bayou bayou bayou"
Have You Ever Been To Little Rock?
Little Rock, AR Arkansas Ozark Mountains, AR Cleveland County, AR singin' pines, AR Ouachita country, AR Hot Springs, AR Dearborn, MI Mississippi Delta land, AR
"Have you ever been to Little Rock?"
Hit The Road And Go
Appalachian Mountains Appalachian Valleys
"There's magic in the mountains"
Clean Your Own Tables
San Francisco, CA Los Angeles, CA
"I've done my time in Frisco in LA"
Cocaine Carolina
New Orleans, LA Kentucky Lexington, KY California North Carolina South Carolina
"Morning found me lying on a floor in New Orleans"
Give My Love to Rose
San Francisco, CA Louisiana
"They let me out of prison out in Frisco"
Monteagle Mountain
Monteagle, TN Interstate 24, TN Nashville, TN Chattanooga, TN Florida Atlanta, GA Smoky Mountains, TN Monteagle Mountain, TN
"On Monteagle Mountain"
Texas, 1947
Texas
"And it's late afternoon on a hot Texas day"
Folsom Prison Blues (Live)
San Quentin, CA Folsom, CA San Antonio, TX Reno, NV Jackson, TN Tulsa, OK
"We want to thank the officials of San Quentin Prison"
Down At Drippin’ Springs
Dripping Springs, TX Texas chaparral, TX texas plains, TX Austin, TX Littlefield, TX Brownsville, TX Olive Hill, KY Seminole, TX Dublin, TX San Antonio, TX Mena, AR Fort Worth, TX Akron, OH Great Plains, US
"Down at Dripping Springs down at Dripping Springs"
Down At Drippin' Springs
Austin, TX Brownsville, TX Dripping Springs, TX Littlefield, TX Nashville, TN Odessa, TX San Antonio, TX Texas The Great Plains, TX
"There's Willie and Waylon Kris and Tom"
Jackson
Jackson, MS Jackson, TN Jackson, GA Jackson, WY Jackson, MI
"We've been talkin' 'bout Jackson"
Dialogue #7
Mississippi River Lake County, TN
"You know Carl Perkins and I lived right across the Mississippi River from each other"
Ridin’ on the Cotton Belt
Cleveland County, AR Rison, AR Brinkley, AR Saline River, AR Cotton Belt Railroad, AR Cotton Belt Railroad Line, AR
"Cleveland County Arkansas where I was born"
Man in Black
Dyess, AR Folsom, CA Nashville, TN
"Well, you wonder why I always dress in black"
Rockabilly Blues (Texas 1955)
Texas Waco, TX Dallas, TX Sweetwater, TX Texas City, TX San Antonio, TX Odessa, TX San Angelo, TX Temple, TX Beaumont, TX Amarillo, TX Tennessee
"I took a tour to Texas"
Chicken in Black
New York City, NY Nashville, TN
"I know this doctor in New York son"
If It Wasn’t For The Wabash River
Wabash River, IN Indiana California Platte River, NE
"If it wasn’t for the Wabash River"
A Boy Named Sue (Live)
Gatlinburg, TN
"Well, it was Gatlinburg in mid-July"
Dialogue #3
Staunton, VA
"What was is like up in the Stanton Virginia about that time of the year Harold"
Further On (Up the Road)
desert
"Now I've been out in the desert, just doin' my time"
Ain’t No Grave (Gonna Hold This Body Down)
Mississippi River
"Well, look way down the river"
Folsom Prison Blues
Folsom, CA San Antonio, TX Reno, NV
"I'm stuck in Folsom prison, and time keeps draggin' on"
Dialogue #8
Northeast Arkansas
"we picked up in Northeast Arkansas"
Please Don’t Play Red River Valley
Clint, TX Red River Valley
"That I got from Wayne Raney in Clint Texas C-L-I-N-T Clint Texas"
Mobile Bay
Boston, MA Flagstaff, AZ Mobile Bay, AL Magnolia Blossoms/Leaves, AL Chicago, IL Arizona Mobile, AL Alabama
"A shaking man said he had left his family back in Boston"
The Battle of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA Mississippi River, LA Gulf of Mexico (Plaquemines Parish), LA Gulf of Mexico (Jefferson Parish), LA Nashville, TN Mississippi River Gulf of Mexico
"the town of New Orleans"
Jackson (with June Carter)
Dyess, AR Jackson, MS Jackson, TN
Dialogue #1
North Carolina Asheville, NC Cherokee, NC Bryson City, NC
"up in Flatts,North Carolina"
Restless Kid (demo)
Colorado Denver, CO Rio Grande, TX Rio Bravo, TX Badlands, CO Badlands, SD
"Colorado's right hand will put you on the run"
Cocaine Blues
Folsom, CA
"Ninety-nine years in the Folsom pen"
Highway Patrolman
Johnstown, PA Michigan Ohio
"while the band played "The Night of the Johnstown Flood""
My Old Kentucky Home (Turpentine and Dandelion Wine)
Kentucky
"Oh, the sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home"
Tennessee Flat-Top Box
South Texas US-Mexico Border, TX Austin, TX Tennessee Laredo, TX
"In a little cabaret in a south Texas border town"
To The Shining Mountains
Lehigh Valley, PA Lake Erie Virginia Ohio Valley Cumberland River Wabash River Tennessee River Mississippi River Cherokee Nation, OK Shawnee Territory, OH Muscogee Creek Nation, OK Ojibwe Territory, MN Choctaw Nation, OK Quapaw Nation, OK Missouri River Rocky Mountains New Orleans, LA Lake Erie, OH Ohio Valley, OH Cumberland River, TN Wabash River, IN Tennessee River, TN Mississippi River, MS Missouri River, MO Rocky Mountains, CO
"Yes, went they through the Lehigh Valley"
I’ve Been Everywhere
Winnemucca, NV Reno, NV Chicago, IL Fargo, ND Minnesota Buffalo, NY Winslow, AZ Sarasota, FL Wichita, KS Tulsa, OK Ottawa, IL Tampa, FL Panama City, FL Mattawa, WA Bangor, ME Baltimore, MD Amarillo, TX Boston, MA Charleston, SC Dayton, OH Louisiana Washington, D.C., DC Houston, TX Kingston, NY Texarkana, TX Monterey, CA Santa Fe, NM Tallapoosa, GA Glen Rock, PA Black Rock, AR Little Rock, AR Oskaloosa, IA Tennessee Chicopee, MA Spirit Lake, IA Grand Lake, CO Baraboo, WI Crater Lake, OR Louisville, KY Nashville, TN Knoxville, TN Jacksonville, FL Waterville, ME Pittsfield, MA Springfield, IL Bakersfield, CA Shreveport, LA Hackensack, NJ Detroit, MI Cadillac, MI Fond du Lac, WI Davenport, IA Idaho Jellico, TN Pasadena, CA Avalon, CA Pittsburgh, PA Parkersburg, WV Colorado Ellensburg, WA Rexburg, ID Vicksburg, MS El Dorado, AR Larimore, ND Ardmore, OK Haverstraw, NY Chatanika, AK Chaska, MN Nebraska Alaska Opelika, AL Waterloo, IA Kalamazoo, MI Kansas City, MO Sioux City, IA Cedar City, UT Dodge City, KS
"I was totin' my pack along the dusty Winnemucca road"
I've Been Everywhere
Amarillo, TX Bakersfield, CA Baltimore, MD Bangor, ME Boston, MA Buffalo, NY Cedar City, UT Charleston, WV Chicago, IL Davenport, IA Dayton, OH Dodge City, KS Fargo, ND Houston, TX Jacksonville, FL Kalamazoo, MI Kansas City, KS Knoxville, TN Louisville, KY Monterey, CA Nashville, TN Ottawa Pasadena, CA Pittsburgh, PA Reno, NV Santa Fe, NM Sarasota, FL Shreveport, LA Sioux City, IA Springfield, IL Tampa, FL Texarkana, TX Toronto Tulsa, OK Vicksburg, MS Washington, DC Waterloo, IA Wichita, KS Winslow, AZ Alaska Colorado Idaho Louisiana Minnesota Nebraska Oklahoma Tennessee
"I've been to Amarillo"
Crystal Chandeliers and Burgundy
San Antonio, TX
"This boxcar's been my home since St Antone"
The City Of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA City of New Orleans (Train Route) Illinois Central Kankakee, IL Memphis, TN Mississippi River Gulf of Mexico, LA Illinois Mississippi Gulf Coast
"Riding on the City of New Orleans"
Dialogue #6
Maywood, IL Copper Creek, VA
"But as John says in his song"
You Wild Colorado (Mono)
Colorado
She Came from the Mountains
Rocky Mountains Colorado Springs, CO Pike's Peak, CO Iowa flatlands, IA
"She came from the mountains Rocky Mountains eagle-high"
mister garfield
Washington, DC
A Proud Land
Utah Oklahoma New Mexico Arizona
"Then came Utah"
I’ll Say It’s True
Dresden, TN New York City, NY Littlefield, TX Birmingham, AL Austin, TX Nashville, TN
"Like hot pink and Dresden blue"
I'll say it's true
New York City, NY
The Beast in Me
New York City, NY
"Patently unclear if it's New York or New Year"
Tennessee Stud
Tennessee Rio Grande, TX Arkansas US-Mexico Border, TX
"I left Tennessee very much alive"
Gone
San Francisco, CA San Francisco Bay, CA
"I'm on the hill by Friscio Bay"
Cocaine Blues (At Folsom Prison)
Folsom, CA El Paso, TX US-Mexico Border
"Ninety-nine years in the Folsom Pen"
Hey Porter
Mason-Dixon Line Mississippi Delta Tennessee
"How much longer will it be 'til we cross That Mason-Dixon Line?"
Big Foot
Wounded Knee, SD Minneconjou Sioux, SD Sioux land, SD Crazy Horse, SD
"Like that day at Wounded Knee, South Dakota"
New Mexico
New Mexico Griffin, GA US-Mexico Border
"out in New Mexico"
Georgia On A Fast Train
Georgia North Carolina South Carolina picking cotton, MS Detroit, MI Cotton Belt
"I've been to Georgia on a fast train, honey"
Ghost Riders in the Sky
American West
"An old cowboy went ridin' out one dark and windy day"
Calilou
Louisiana California West Coast Crescent City, CA New Orleans, LA Phoenix, AZ Tucumcari, NM
"Well I'm finally going back to Louisiana"
Dialogue #4
Clinch Mountain, TN
"she was always going into Clinch Mountain hunting wood"
Southern Comfort
Nashville, TN Tennessee Cumberland River, TN Hermitage, TN Sumner County, TN
"And I got a good job in Nashville"
Big River
Mississippi River St. Paul, MN Davenport, IA St. Louis, MO Memphis, TN Baton Rouge, LA New Orleans, LA Gulf Coast
"And the tears that I cried for that woman are gonna flood you, big river"
Cajun Born
Lafayette, LA Bayou Country, LA Alaska Ohio Louisiana
"born on the bayou, thirty miles out of Lafayette"
One Piece at a Time
Kentucky Detroit, MI
"Well, I left Kentucky back in '49"
Chattanooga City Limit Sign
Nashville, TN Chattanooga, TN Monteagle, TN Detroit, MI Tennessee
"Out of Nashville toting my sack"
I Heard That Lonesome Whistle
Georgia North Carolina South Carolina
"I'm in Georgia doing time"
Drive On
Los Angeles, CA Winterset, IA
"And nobody tried to be John Wayne"
A Boy Named Sue
Nashville, TN Dyess, AR
Arkansas Lovin' Man
Arkansas
"I'm a natural actual real authentical Arkansas lovin' man yes I am"
Call Me the Breeze (feat. John Carter Cash)
Georgia Georgia Peach Belt, GA
"Might go down to Georgia"
Cry! Cry! Cry!
Five Feet High and Rising
Arkansas Mississippi Delta, MS Mississippi Delta, AR Mississippi Delta, LA
"Born in Kingsland, Arkansas"
Get Rhythm
windy corner Dyess, AR
God Bless Robert E. Lee
Appomattox, VA Arlington House, VA Atlanta, GA Confederacy Dixie Jefferson Davis, VA Mississippi Nashville, TN Sherman's March to the Sea, GA Sherman's March to the Sea, SC The North The South Ulysses S. Grant, IL
"But today at Appomattox General Lee sat down"
god bless robert e. lee
Charlottesville, VA Lexington, VA Murray, KY
I Hung My Head
the hill courthouse gallows the town
I Walk the Line
Nashville, TN Dyess, AR
I Won’t Back Down
Gates of Hell (disambiguation)
My Old Kentucky Home
Kentucky
Restless Kid - Demo
Denver, CO Colorado South Dakota Texas
"I got a gal in Denver town"
Ring of Fire
Nashville, TN Dyess, AR Calgary, AB
Texas-1947
Texas
The Long Black Veil
The Man Comes Around
Wayfaring Stranger
God’s Gonna Cut You Down
Dyess, AR
Hurt
Dyess, AR La Porte, TX Brownsville, TX Sabine Pass, TX Gettysburg, PA Sharpsburg, MD Shiloh, TN Murfreesboro, TN Manassas, VA Fredericksburg, VA Chancellorsville, VA Appomattox, VA Charleston, SC Vicksburg, MS Kennesaw, GA Garfield, AR Crow Agency, MT Stillwater, NY Chalmette, LA Hendersonville, TN
Sunday Morning Coming Down
Dyess, AR
folson prison blues
Folsom, NV Reno, NV
starkville city jail
Starkville, MS
texas - 1947
Texas
Wanted Man
Shreveport, LA California Buffalo, NY Kansas City, MO Kansas City, KS Ohio Mississippi Cheyenne, WY Colorado Coastal Georgia El Paso, TX Abilene, TX Albuquerque, NM Syracuse, NY Tallahassee, FL Baton Rouge, LA
"Song about Shreveport, LA"
Remember the Alamo
San Antonio, TX Texas
"Remember the Alamo"
Southern Accents
Atlanta, GA Orlando, FL The South New England citrus_belt_fl, FL
"Now that drunk tank in Atlanta's just a motel room to me"
Orange Blossom Special
Florida New York California Orange Blossom Special
"Well, I'm going down to Florida / And get some sand in my shoes"
I'm Going to Memphis
Memphis, TN
"I'm goin' to Memphis"
Hardin Wouldn’t Run
Huntsville, TX
Mean as Hell
Rio Grande, TX
I Got a Boy (And His Name Is John) [with June Carter Cash]
Valley Forge, PA
"But he's not the one from Valley Forge"
I Will Rock and Roll With You
Memphis, TN
"Memphis 1955 on Union Avenue"
I'd Rather Have You
Beverly Hills, CA New York Texas
"I'd rather go to a rodeo than shopping on Rodeo Drive"
I Never Picked Cotton
Oklahoma Appalachia Memphis, TN
"In that Oklahoma sun"
John's
Arkansas Nashville, TN Georgiana, AL Montgomery, AL
"Most of the favorite memories of my boyhood days in Arkansas"
Look At Them Beans
Grimes County, TX
"Of producing one of the best crops in Grimes County"
Like a Young Colt
The South South Carolina
"After twenty years or more the South"
Joshua Gone Barbados
Georgetown, SC
"Lot of misery in Georgetown"
King Of the Hill
Harlan, KY Appalachia
"Saturday night you go to Harlan town"
Melva's Wine
Kingston Springs, TN Chicago, IL
"And the river runs through Kingston Springs"
Missouri Waltz
Missouri Dixieland
"Way down in Missouri where I heard this melody"
Mississippi Sand
Mississippi Delta, MS Mississippi
"I was born down in the bottoms of the flat black Delta land"
Opening the West
Rocky Mountains Iowa Wisconsin California Oregon Minnesota Kansas
"And the shining Rocky Mountains looked down on the people coming"
Papa Was a Good Man
Cincinnati, OH Columbus, OH
"It rained all the way to Cincinnati"
Ragged Old Flag
Delaware River, DE Baltimore, MD New Orleans, LA San Antonio, TX Texas Fredericksburg, VA Shiloh, TN
"When Washington took it across the Delaware"
Poor Valley Girl
Hiltons, VA Clinch Mountain, VA Copper Creek, VA Poor Valley, VA
"That runs to AP Carter's store on the logging truck she rode"
Southwind
Jacksonville, FL Nashville, TN
"You picked her up in Jacksonville and left me cold and lonesome in the rain"
Sixteen Tons
Appalachian Coal Country Mississippi Delta
"I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine"
That's the Truth
Tampa, FL US-Mexico Border
"Saw a girl in Tampa"
Tenessee Flat Top Box
South Texas Austin, TX Tennessee
"In a little cabaret in a south Texas border town"
The Ballad of Ira Hayes
Arizona Phoenix, AZ Pima Indian land, AZ
"in Arizona land"
Southwestward
Tennessee Vermont Kentucky Louisiana Ohio Mississippi Indiana Alabama Maine Missouri Arkansas Michigan Florida Texas Rio Grande, TX San Antonio, TX
"David Crockett left Tennessee with the volunteers headed for San Antonio"
The Chicken In Black
New York Nashville, TN
"He said, "I know this doctor in New York son""
The Gettysburg Address
Gettysburg, PA Springfield, IL
"died at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania"
The Junkie and the Juicehead (Minus Me)
Nashville, TN
"I was a-stumble bummin' down the neon Music City sidewalks"
The Lady Came From Baltimore
Baltimore, MD
"The lady came from Baltimore and all she wore was lace"
To Beat the Devil
Nashville, TN
"It was wintertime in Nashville, down on Music Row"
The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore
Hazard, KY Louisville and Nashville Railroad, KY Coal Country, KY Kudzu Belt Southeast, KY
"I was born and raised in the mouth of the Hazard Hollow"
The Night Hank Williams Came To Town (feat. Waylon Jennings)
Grapevine, TX Nashville, TN Independence, MO
"I drove on out to Grapevine and picked old Mavis up"
The Road to Kaintuck
Kentucky Duffield, VA Wilderness Road, KY Southwestern Virginia Castlewood, VA
"We're goin' west to Kaintuck"
W. Lee O'Daniel (And The Light Crust Dough Boys) [feat. The Light Crust Doughboys]
Tulsa, OK Oklahoma Pawnee, OK
"In the town of Tulsa, about thirty years ago"
Dialogue #2
California Platte River, NE
"I just got back from California"
The Ballad of Boot Hill (Mono)
Arizona Tucson, AZ Tombstone, AZ
"Out in Arizona, just south of Tucson"

Rivers & Roads in Song Nearby

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Connected Places

Dyess, AR Alaska, AK Alcatraz Island, CA Amarillo, TX Appomattox, VA Arkansas, AR Arlington House, VA Asheville, NC, NC Atlanta, GA Austin, TX Bakersfield, CA Baltimore, MD Bangor, ME Baton Rouge, LA Bexar County, TX Boston, MA Brownsville, TX Bryson City, NC, NC Buffalo, NY California, CA Canadian border, MI Cedar City, UT Chalmette, LA Chancellorsville, VA Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Chattanooga, TN Cherokee, NC, NC Cheyenne Territory, MT Chicago, IL Cleveland County, AR Clinch Mountain, TN Clinch Mountain, VA Colorado Springs, CO Cotton Belt, AL Crazy Horse, SD Crow Agency, MT Crow Reservation, MT Davenport, IA Dayton, OH Denver, CO Detroit, MI Dixie, AL Dodge City, KS Dripping Springs, TX Fargo, ND Flatts, North Carolina, NC Folsom, CA Folsom Prison, CA Fredericksburg, VA Garfield, AR Gatlinburg, TN Georgia, GA Georgia Peach Belt, GA Gettysburg, PA Grand Ole Opry, TN Gulf of Mexico, LA Hot Springs, AR Houston, TX Jackson, TN Jackson, Tennessee, TN Jacksonville, FL Jefferson Davis, VA Johnstown, PA Kalamazoo, MI Kansas City, KS Kennesaw, GA Kingsland, AR Knoxville, TN La Porte, TX Lafayette, LA Lake County, TN Lakota Territory, SD Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, MT Little Rock, AR Littlefield, TX Los Angeles, CA Louisiana, LA Louisville, KY Maddy Hill, North Carolina, NC Manassas, VA Mason-Dixon Line, PA Memphis, TN Michigan, MI Michigan state line, MI Mississippi, MS Mississippi Delta, AR Mobile, AL Monteagle, TN Monterey, CA Murfreesboro, TN Nashville, TN New Orleans, LA New York, NY North Carolina, NC Northeast Arkansas, AR Odessa, TX Ohio, OH Ouachita Mountains, AR Ozark Mountains, AR Paris, TN Paris, TX Pasadena, CA Phoenix, AZ Pittsburgh, PA Reno, NV Reno, Nevada, NV Sabine Pass, TX Sacramento County, CA San Antone, TX San Antonio, TX San Antonio, Texas, TX San Francisco, CA San Quentin Prison, CA Santa Fe, NM Sarasota, FL Sharpsburg, MD Sherman's March to the Sea, GA Sherman's March to the Sea, SC Shiloh, TN Shreveport, LA Sioux City, IA Sioux land, SD South Carolina, SC South Dakota, SD Springfield, IL St. Louis, MO St. Paul, MN Staunton, Virginia, VA Stillwater, NY Tampa, FL Tennessee, TN Texarkana, TX Texas, TX The Great Plains, TX Tucumcari, NM Tulsa, OK Tulsa, Oklahoma, OK Ulysses S. Grant, IL Utah, UT Vicksburg, MS Washington, DC Washoe County, NV Waterloo, IA Wichita, KS Winslow, AZ Wounded Knee, SD
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