Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On
Tom T. Hall

Johnny got up one morning; he went down to the company store
Got him a big box of bullets to fit into his .44
The store man said, Son, are you gonna work? You know you owe me too much to stop.
John said, I got a little workin' to do but I ain't goin' by your clock.
People said John was a slacker, 'cause he wouldn't fight in their war
A man wasn't much if he wouldn't fight back in 1940 and 4
The doctor said John was just too sick to go, but the people said that he was a coward
And one of the men makin' fun of him was a fellow named Milton Howard
Milton was down at the cold spring, a-drinkin' from a mason jar
He said, John, you better get yourself to work or you're gonna fool around 'til you get fired.
John blew the dust from his old .44, put two holes in Milton's head
When Johnny walked off to get some more shootin' done, that ol' cold spring was a-runnin' red
Next guy he met was a Stigall boy, and the boy had a hammer in his hand
John said Son, you should've built yourself a box, 'cause you're a headed for the Promised Land.
Stigall fell down to his knees to pray, and he cried Lord, Johnny please don't shoot!
Before he got halfway to saying Amen, well old Johnny shot him out of his boots
Word went out through the county, that old John had lost his head
The people were runnin' and screamin'; there were seven of 'em lyin' there dead
Johnny hid out in a farmhouse; he had satisfaction in his eyes
He said I know they're coming to get me, boys, but they ain't a-gonna take me alive.
People gathered 'round that old farmhouse; it was the relatives of all them dead
Now John said, If the sheriff comes through that door I'm gonna fill him plumb full of lead.
The sheriff kicked down that old farmhouse door, but old John's gun would not shoot
Johnny just smiled at the sheriff and said, The Lord must think a lot of you.
They took old John to the jailhouse; he entered in a guilty plea
The judge said death in the electric chair, 'cause it's murder in the first degree
John's last meal was a lot of fried chicken, cold beans and baby squash
He ate every bite that they brought him, then he smiled and said, I thank you all a lot.
They put old John in the electric chair; they shaved his ankles and his head
The preacher said, Son, have you got something to say; in a minute you're a-gonna be dead.
John said, I ain't no coward, and the people know that I won't run.
Then Johnny smiled up at the warden and said, Turn it on, turn it on, turn it on!


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  (margie's At) The Lincoln Park Inn   (Margie's At) The Lincoln Park Inn   100 Children   A Bar With No Beer   A Million Miles to the City   A Picture Of Your Mother   A Week in a Country Jail   Adventures Of Linda Bohannon   Ain't Got The Time   Ain't Got The Time   All You Want When You Please   America The Ugly   And I Love You So   Another Town   Back When Gas Was Thirty Cents A Gallon   Back When The Old Homeplace Was New   Back When We Were Young   Ballad Of Bill Crump   Ballad of Forty Dollars   Barn Dance   Beautiful River Of Life   Beauty Is A Fading Flower   Beer Drinker's Waltz   Beer Drinker's Waltz   Before Jessie Died   Big Motel On The Mountain   Bill Monroe For Breakfast   Bourbon Man   Canadian Women Canadian Clubs   Candy in the Window   Carter Boys   Chattanooga Dog   Cloudy Day   Coot Marseilles Blues   Country Cabin Itis   Country Is   Day Drinkin'   Day Drinkin'   Deal   Different Feeling   Do It To Someone You Love   Don't Forget The Coffee Billy Joe   Don't Forget The Coffee Billy Joe   Easter Is   Everybody Loves To Hear A Bird Sing   Everything From Jesus To Jack Daniels   Everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels [*]   Fallen Women   Faster Horses   Faster Horses (cowboy And The Poet)   Faster Horses (The Cowboy And The Poet)   Flat-Footin' It   Flat-Footin' It   Forbidden Flowers   Forget It   Fox Hollow's Animal Train   Fox Hollow's Animal Train   Fox on the Run   From A Mansion To A Honky-Tonk   George (And The North Woods)   Gimme Peace   Girl Who Read The Same Book All The Time   Girl You Sure Know How To Say Goodbye   Girls In Saigon City   God Came Through Bellville Georgia   Gone To Hell In A Basket   Goodbye Cowgirl   Greed Kills More People Than Whiskey   Halloween Is   Hang Them All   Hang Them All (Get the Guilty)   Happy Groundhog Day   Harmonica Man   Harper Valley P.T.A.   Harper Valley P.T.A. [#]   Harper Valley PTA   High Steppin' Proud   High Steppin' Proud   Highways   Hitchhiker   Homecoming   Homecoming [*]   How To Talk To A Little Baby Goat   I Can't Dance   I Can't Dance   I Care   I Feel Like Flying Away   I Flew Over Our House Last Night   I Hope It Rains At My Funeral   I Know Who I'll Be Seeing In New Zeland   I Know Who I'll Be Seeing In New Zeland   I Left You Some Kisses On The Door   I Like Beer   I Like to Feel Pretty Inside   I Love   I Love [Live] [Live]   I Miss A Lot of Trains   I Still Care What Happens To You   I Took A Memory To Lunch   I Want To See The Parade   I Washed My Face In The Morning Dew   I Wish I Had A Million Friends   I'll Go Somewhere And Sing My Songs Again   I'm A Cowboy Too   I'm Forty Now   I'm Not Ready Yet   I'll Go Somewhere And Sing My Songs Again   I'm A Cowboy Too   I'm Forty Now   I'm Not Ready Yet   It Feels Better Now   It Sure Can Get Cold In Des Moines   It's Got To Be Kentucky For Me   It's Got To Be Kentucky For Me   Jesus On The Radio (daddy On The Phone)   Joe Don't Let Your Music Kill You   Joe Don't Let Your Music Kill You   Jolly Old Saint Nicholas   Kentucky Feb. 27, '71   Kentucky Feb. 27, '71   Kentucky Feb. 27.'71   Kentucky In The Morning   L. A. Blues   L.A. Blues   Last Country Song   Last Hard Town   Legend Of The Lady Bear   Let's Play Remember   Let's Play Remember   Letters   Little Brown Suitcase   Little Green Flower With The Yellow On Top   Little Lady Preacher   Local Flowers   Loneliest Girl In The Crowd   Looking Forward To Seeing You Again   Lost In Florida   Love's Been Good To Me   Love's Been Good To Me   Lovin' Arms   Lovin' Arms   Lying Jim   Magnificent Music Machine   Mama Bake A Pie   Mama Bake A Pie (Daddy Kill A Chicken)   Mama's Got The Catfish Blues   Mama's Got The Catfish Blues   Man Who Hated Freckles   Margie's at The Lincoln Park Inn   Mc Leay Street In Sydney   Me And Jesus   Me And Jimmie Rodgers   Monkey That Became President   More About John Henry   Myra   Mysterious Fox Of Fox Hollow   Nashville Is A Groovy Little Town   Negatory Romance   Never Having You   No New Friends Please   O Christmas Tree   Ode To A Half A Pound Of Ground Round   Old Dogs Children And Watermelon Wine   Old Dogs Children and Watermelon Wine   Old Dogs, and Children, and Watermelon Wine   Old Dogs, Children & Watermelon Wine   Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine   Old Enough to Want To   Old Enough To Want To (Fool Enough To Try)   Old Five And Dimers Like Me   Old Habits Die Hard   Old Side Of Town   Ole Lonesome George The Basset   One Hundred Children   One More Song For Jesus   One Night In Germany   One of The Mysteries of Life   Over And Over Again   Over The Rainbow   P.S. I Love You   Pamela Brown   Pay No Attention To Alice   Piece Of The Road   Pinto The Wonder Horse Is Dead   Pisty   Promise And The Dream   Put Another Log On The Fire   Raking Up Leaves   Ramona's Revenge   Ramona's Revenge   Rattle Mouse   Ravishing Ruby   Redneck Riviera   Rolling Mills Of Middletown   Royal Annie   Running Wild   Sad Song For My Friend   Salute To A Switchblade   Saturday Morning Song   Second Handed Flower   Second Handed Flowers   Senior Citizen Star   Shame On The Rain   She Gave Her Heart To Jethro   Ships Go Out   Shoes And Dress That Alice Wore   Shoeshine Man   Sing A Little Baby To Sleep   Singer's Song   Singer's Song   Six O'clock News   Six O'clock News   Sky Blue True   Sneaky Snake   Soldier Of Fortune   Son of Clayton Delaney   Song For Uncle Curt   Song Of The One Legged Chicken   Songwriter   Souvenirs   Spokane Motel Blues   St. George Isle   St. Louis Named A Shoe After Me   Story Of Your Life Is In Your Face   Strawberry Farms   Subdivision Blues   Texas Never Fell In Love With Me   Thank You Connersville Indiana   Thanksgiving Is   That Lucky Old Sun   That Song Is Driving Me Crazy   That Song Is Driving Me Crazy [CD Only]   That'll Be All Right With Me   That's How I Got To Memphis   That's Why You Have To Be You   That'll Be All Right With Me   That's How I Got To Memphis   That's Why You Have To Be You   The Ballad of Bill Crump   The Carter Boys   The Dancing Tree   The Hitch-hiker   The Little Lady Preacher   The Man Who Shot Himself   The Monkey That Became President   The Old Side of Town   The Son of Clayton Delaney   The World The Way I Want It   The Year That Clayton Delaney Died   There Is A Miracle In You   Time Takes Care Of A Few Things   Too Many Do-Goods   Trees In Philadelphia   Trip To Hyden   Tulsa Telephone Book   Turn It On Turn It On Turn It On   Waiting On The Other Shoe To Fall   Water Blue   Watertown Tennessee   Way I've Always Been   Way I've Always Been   Way We Were   We're All In This Thing Alone   We're All In This Thing Alone   Week In A Country Jail   What A Song   When Nobody Wants Your Body Anymore   Whiskey Castles   Who Needs A Baby   Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs   Whole Lot Of Love   Willy The Wandering Gypsy And Me   Windy City Anne   World According To Raymond   World The Way I Want It   Year That Clayton Delaney Died   You Are A Star   You Are My Hero   You Show Me Your Heart (and I'll Show You Mine)   Your Birthday Is   Your Man Loves You Honey

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