Prison Love Songs (Folsom Prison Blues/The Fields of Athenry) Songtext
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Prison Love Songs (Folsom Prison Blues/The Fields of Athenry)

I hear the train a comin', it's rollin' round the bend.
And, I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when.
I'm stuck in Folsom Prison and time keeps dragging on.
But that train keeps a rollin' on 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.
When I hear that whistle blowin' I hang my head and I cry.

By a lonely prison wall,
I heard a young girl calling.
Michael, they have taken you away.
For you stole Trevelyn's corn
So our young might see the morn.
Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay.


Low lie the fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small free bird fly.
Our love was on the wing.
We had dreams and songs to sing,
It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry.

By a lonely prison wall
I heard a young man calling.
Nothing matters, Mary, when you're free.
Against the famine and the crown,
I rebelled, they cut me down.
Now you must raise our child with diginity.

Low lie the fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small free bird fly.
Our love was on the wing.
We had dreams and songs to sing,
It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry.

By a lonely harbor wall
She watched the last star falling
As the prison ship sailed out against the sky.
Well, she'll live in hope and pray
For her love in Botney Bay.
It's so lonely round the Fields Of Athenry


Low lie, the fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small free birds fly.
Our love was on the wing.
We had dreams and songs to sing,
It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry.

Well, if they freed me from this prison, if that railroad train was mine,
Well, I bet I'd move it on a little farther down the line.
Far from Folsom, that's where I long to stay.
Then I'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away.