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Artist/Band: Johnny Cash
Lyrics for Song: The Whirl And The Suck
Lyrics for Album: Come Along And Ride This Train [2004]



It took a mighty good man with salty hands

And a mighty long raft to keep the fore before the act

You take ten good men and guts and luck

And you might navigate the whirl and the suck



Well, the Tennessee River changed its mind

At Chattanooga she oughta unwind

She could a run right on the Georgia Sea

But she cut right back through Tennessee



Well, the settlers come by raft

And boat bringin' everything that could stay a float

But like a loco horse that'll twist and buck

They hardly ever made it through the whirl and the suck



It took a mighty good man with salty hands

And a mighty long raft to keep the fore before the act

You take ten good men and guts and luck

And you might navigate the whirl and the suck



When General Washington was in his knicker bocks

The Cherokee Indians through the Chattanooga Rocks

And the Chickamagua tribe and the Nickajack

They kept the watch where the river cut back

And if a raft or a boat ever rode the bend

The Indians got 'em cause they had 'em hemmed in



It took a mighty good man with salty hands

And a mighty long raft to keep the fore before the act

You take ten good men and guts and luck

And you might navigate the whirl and the suck


Album Lyrics: Come Along And Ride This Train [2004]


Johnny Cash
"Come Along And Ride This Train [2004]"


1. Apache Tears
2. Custer
3. The Talking Leaves
4. Drums
5. The Vanishing Race
6. From Sea To Shining Sea
7. The Whirl And The Suck
8. Call Daddy From The Mines
9. The Frozen Four Hundred Pound Fair To Middlin' Cotton Picker
10. The Masterpiece
11. You And Tennessee
12. Cisco Clifton's Fillin' Station
13. After The Ball
14. No Earthly Good
15. White Girl