Johnny Cash - His Final Live Performance 2003

good evening ladies and gentlemen welcome to the old-time music show you've got a surprise tonight haven't you [Applause] very good bluegrass band the bluegrass tradition I don't guess they knowed what in the world had happened are we here in the valley when they drove up a real good bluegrass band and then our special guest is well it's wonderful to have him and one of the biggest supporters of the Carter folder and the Music Center is Johnny Cash and so we will talk more later on about about the building and the thing that's going on we're gonna make it bigger and a lot of things are going to happen around here but but right now let's make welcome my friend Johnny Cage [Applause] [Music] yeah [Music] hello I'm Johnny Chad [Applause] I'm glad to see you folks thanks for coming to see our show Gerry in sleep I hear the train are coming it's rolling around the bend and I'd seen the sunshine since I don't know when I'm stuck it in Folsom Prison and time keeps dragging on but that train keeps rolling going down to San Antone when I was just a baby my mama told me son always be a good boy don't ever play with guns but I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die [Music] I bet those rich folks eat in the fancy dining car they're probably drinking coffee and smoking big cigars well I know I had it coming I know I can't be free [Music] well if they freed me from this prison if that railroad train was mine then I'd moved it on a little farther down the line far from Folsom Prison that's where I want to stay and I live that long [Music] [Music] [Applause] as June said about me you don't sing too good but he is a good old boy [Music] I keep a close watch on this heart of mine [Music] mine's wide open all the time I could dance out for the tie that binds because your mind I walk the line [Music] I find it very very easy to be true I find myself alone when he stays smooth yes I'll admit that I'm a fool for you because you're my I walk alone [Music] as sure as like his darkened day is life I keep you on my mind oh dear night and happiness I have known bruise that it's right because you're my I walked the line [Music] you've got a way to keep me on your side you get because a love that I can tie for you I know I'd even try to turn the tide because you're mine I walked in life [Music] I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds because your mind I walk the line [Music] [Applause] I'm sorry about the laryngitis of hoarseness tonight I didn't realize that was that horse hmm yeah first riddle I don't okay love you too okay okay thank you [Music] and well I woke up Sunday morning with no way the whole my is that they've heard and the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad I had one mole for this and then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes found my cleanest dirty shirt [Music] then I wash my face and call my head stumbles down the stairs to me today I smoked my mind the night before with cigarettes songs I've been thinking [Music] but I lick my first and watch the Smallville cousin ever can that you did kinky [Music] I crossed the empties Creek got the Sun to smell someone try and chickie [Music] and it took me back to something Letta lost somewhere that somehow along with all this Sunday morning side oh I'm wishing love and I was so causes something dinner Sunday that makes the body feel alone there ain't nothing shorted I have his lonesome as the sound [Music] of a sleeping city sidewalk [Music] Sunday morning coming [Music] in the park I saw a daddy with a leather little girl he was swinging [Music] and I stopped beside his Sunday school as she does the songs they would say when I hit it down the road somewhere far away a lonely Bell was ringing and it clipped me back to something better lost somewhere somehow along side wall I'm wishing love that I was stoned [Music] cause there's something in a sundae then make somebody feel alone nothing shorted I have his lonesome as a sound obviously the city's sidewalk [Music] Sunday morning coming down [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] the spirit of June Carter overshadows me tonight with the love she had for me and the love I have for her we connect somewhere between here in heaven she came down for a short visit I guess from heaven to visit with me tonight give me courage and inspiration like she always has she's never been one for me except courage and inspiration I thank God for June Carter I love her with all my heart I would like to do a song that she wrote that she was extremely proud of you see seriously me [Music] okay okay [Music] [Applause] you I fell into burning Ring of Fire I went down down down and the flames went higher and it burns burns burns the Ring of Fire the Ring of Fire the taste ah the love is sweet one hearts like ours I feel for you like a child oh and let the fire went live in to run and ring off fire I went down down down and let's lane with a higher and it burns burns burns the Ring of Fire the Ring of Fire [Music] I fell into turning ring off fight I went down down down and the flames when iron and it burns burns burns the Ring of Fire love is a burning thing and it makes a fire evening I fell for you like a shot oh but the fire went wild I fell into burning we got fire I went down down down and the flames went higher and it burns burns burns the Ring of Fire the Ring of Fire and it burns burn burn the Ring of Fire the Ring of Fire [Music] we had a memorial service for June in Hendersonville Tennessee and later dressed there her spirit went on but her body was laid to rest and I won't try to tell you how bad I miss her I'll just say that well I'd like to do another song that is important to me that that she requested be sung at her funeral she had asked me this was months before we knew anything was wrong she asked me to have the Oak Ridge Boys performed Larry Gatlin Emmylou Harris and I asked her what she wanted him lose thing and she said I ain't you been [Music] okay [Music] my leg this Sun is sinking fast the race is almost the strong is triumph now were past the triumph has begun oh [Music] come come [Music] oh you know why Oh [Music] [Music] I've almost gained my heaven Leon my spirit Wow leasing the mobile ad was behold they come I the sound of their wings oh man come around me said oh man [Music] why wait to my immortal Oh No oh hey come around [Music] Oh snow white [Music] [Applause] for doing good job on the basin and Jerry Hensley on the guitar doing a wonderful job [Applause] [Music] well I thought the weeping willow how to cry and I showed the clouds out of cover up a clear blue sky and the tears I cried to that woman I'm gonna flood you big river and I'm gonna sit right here until I die I met her accidentally in st. Paul Minnesota and it's only up every time I heard a draw Southern drawl then I heard my dream went back downstream cavorting in Davenport and a followed you big river when you call [Music] got an old amber Baton Rouge River Queens rolled it home take this home alone down to your liens New Orleans so own I've had enough now my blues telling a girl she loves you big river more than me yes I taught so we've been willow how to cry cry cry and I showed the clouds outer cover of a clear blue sky and the tears afraid that one I'm gonna flirt you big river and I'm gonna sit right here until I die [Music] [Applause] thank you yeah thank you all right well you know I know we're making a lot of noise up here but especially Jerry with this electric guitar but it's okay don't worry we're not gonna throw you out I won't let them I first time I brought electrical instruments to the to the fold Genet Carter got on stage and said well I know that we don't allow anybody to plug in when they're here but June said that Johnny Cash was already plugged in when she met him [Applause] that's what my cousin Jeanette said all right here's a song that I have not performed live on stage for 25 years and I've been getting a lot of requests for it here's understand your man [Music] don't call my name out your window I'm leaving I won't even turn my head don't send your kid to folks to give me no talking I'll be gone like I said I'd say the same old thing that I've been saying all along you lay there and you bed keep your mouth shut until I'm gone don't give me that old familiar trying custom own understand your man meditate on it understand your man [Music] give my other suit to the Salvation Army and anything else I'm leaving bye I take in nothing that'll slow down my traveling while I'm untangling and I ain't gonna repeat what I said anymore while I'm breathing there and even breathe before obvious gone as a wild goose in winner you'll understand young man understand you understand your man [Music] [Applause] thank you [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 30min 43sec (1843 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 20 2015

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[u/[deleted]]

hard to believe he's 71 here. He looks like he's in his 90's.

[u/vatothe0]

I wish I'd been turned onto Johnny Cash earlier. It wasn't until my grandpa died and my grandma had me put together some music for his memorial that I ever heard him even though Cash was one of my grandpa's favorite musicians.

Would have been fun to have a beer with my grandpa and listen to some Johnny cash but my grandpa died a month before I turned 21 and he was a stickler for rules.

[u/-mbartlett]

2003 and it's filmed in black and white?

[u/dodgersbenny]

This doesn't make me sad. It makes me smile. I have so many wonderful memories in my life as well as some really bad ones - I wonder how many times I was listening to Johnny during or shortly after those times. Too many to count. Dad working in the garage, the night before my grandpas funeral sitting around a fire with the cousins, roadtrips, after breakups, during my wedding reception. Thanks again Johnny.

[u/hiods]

My father didn't like a lot of music but his number one singer was Johnny Cash (I agree with him). My father passed away September 4th 2003 and Johnny Cash passed away September 12, 2003, (one week later). I remember feeling comforted by this because I felt that my Dad and Johnny were together. Our body eventually dies, but our soul lives on forever. I still listen to Johnny Cash and especially love the ones when he was the oldest.

[u/gergdu]

That was enjoyable. I've never seen this before. Real class act, Johnny. I wonder where this was? And, who are the people directly behind Johnny?

[u/Javanz]

So fucking glad that he found happiness in his career again through Rick Rubin.
Would have been even more tragic for such a legend to have just faded away

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[u/Coedwig]

Nice lack of the wine-whine merger in the accent of the lady in the beginning: ”I don’t guess they know hwat in the world had happened”