Starkville City Jail Lyrics

The song Starkville City Jail is performed by Johnny Cash in the album named At San Quentin in the year 2000 .



Well, I left my motel room, down at the Starkville Motel
The town had gone to sleep and I was feelin' fairly well
I strolled along the sidewalk 'neath the sweet magnolia trees

I was whistlin', pickin' flowers, swayin' in the southern breeze
I found myself surrounded, one policeman said, "That's him
Come along, wild flower child, don't you know that it's 2 a.m."

They're bound to get you
'Cause they got a curfew
And you go to the Starkville City Jail

Well, they threw me in the car and started driving into town
I said, "What the hell did I do?" And he said, "Shut up and sit down"
Well, they emptied out my pockets, took my pills and guitar picks

I said "Wait, my name is" "Awe, shut up" Well, I sure was in a fix
The sergeant put me in a cell, then he went home for the night
I said "Come back here, you so and so, I ain't bein' treated right"

Well, they're bound to get you
'Cause they got a curfew
And you go to the Starkville City Jail

I started pacin' back and forth and now and then, I'd yell
And kick my forty dollar shoes against the steel door of my cell
I'd walk awhile and kick awhile and all night nobody came

Then I sadly remembered, they didn't even take my name
At 8 a.m., they let me out, I said, "Gimme them things of mine!"
They gave me a sneer and a guitar pick and a yellow dandelion

They're bound to get you
'Cause they got a curfew
And you go to the Starkville City Jail
And you go to the Starkville City Jail



Johnny Cash - At San Quentin

Jul 2000

  1. Blue Suede Shoes
  2. Flowers On The Wall
  3. The Last Thing On My Mind
  4. June Carter Talks To The Audience
  5. Wildwood Flower
  6. Big River
  7. I Still Miss Someone
  8. Wreck Of The Old 97
  9. I Walk The Line
  10. The Long Black Veil/Give My Love To Rose
  11. Folsom Prison Blues
  12. Orange Blossom Special
  13. Jackson
  14. Darlin' Companion
  15. Break My Mind
  16. I Don't Know Where I'm Bound
  17. Starkville City Jail
  18. San Quentin
  19. Wanted Man
  20. Restless
  21. A Boy Named Sue
  22. Blistered
  23. Peace In the Valley
  24. The Outside Looking In
  25. Less Of Me
  26. Ring Of Fire
  27. He Turned The Water Into Wine
  28. Daddy Sang Bass
  29. The Old Account Was Settled Long Ago
  30. Folsom Prison Blues

Starkville City Jail