Cash, Johnny - San Quentin Lyrics

The only time you can feel so lucky to be a prisoner, was back in the 1969 in San Quentin.. what a honor for that guys see one of the most popular and important male live recording ever..

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4k! This remaster looks amazing!

JHONNY BEAUTIFUL SIR.

the thing is...the criminals..besides the few who are truly bad to the bone...the real criminals...run the place...

"I sing songs about God, Death and Murder and i always will" - Johnny Cash

Verry well Said 😏

John cash was the greatest  never be another j cash and whoare these 98 F______  morons that don't like this song must be trump haters

it dosent get more cash than this

96 people need to be sent to San Quentin

Trump 202p
The Dems want to take our guns

So boring talkin not sining

What a boring singer

The audio on this, is somehow not as good as the old youtube version.

Im not from the States but i love this man. My dad used to own an oldtimer Dodge Dart. We used to play classic 8track tapes with this song on it. Special place in my heart.

Only Johnny Cash could make a bloodthirsty criminal second degree murderer or whatever to cheer in full joy and happiness over seeing Johnny Cash

Pour mois le plus grand guitariste au monde est jhonne cash

JONNY CASH un topado Fuera de sería toda su vida no dejó nada a la cual no le compusiera y le cantara un romántico 6 hijas Hembra y un Varón amado por las mujeres su Hija lleva su legado con orgullo ... Saludos en la Gloria Jonny

That was back when convicts were still convicts no snitching no checking in to pc because they owe 100 dollars worth of dope this was also before the SHU when gangsters were able to walk the yards without fear of being locked in solitary for 30 years and this was right before mass prison overcrowding or private prisons so the food and services even though shitty were still a lot better than prison conditions today

Yeah from what i, ve garned the crims were of a higher caliber but the prisons themselves were daily hellholes... They didnt really need the shu, and i kinda doubt there weren't junkies running up debts getting got cause of it. Still like old school cops who are still scumbags there are far sight straight up compared to todays pimply little cowards with thier sadistic streaks and government backing with an armful of tattoos and beards like they cant figure out what side they on. Shit even in half a decade its gotten worse. I went in for a brief 10 month stint last year and was..... Just like wow. Its that fucking ice shit. Harder cops and harder prison conditions produced a harder crim who stood by a code. Right or wrong. Today these mumble rap looking gooses seem to leave their spines and balls in property, and at a police station....the amount of plastic gansters that roll over on each other is crazy. Shouldnt have put your head in the game if you didnt wanna play it out. Most should stick to listening to there gansta rap instead trying to live it out.... Cause the youth of today just embarrass thier generation when they do..... Sorry i totally went on a rant there. Well i, m just glad those days are done. And that shit last year was a set up. Which is exactly why all charges were dropped. Fucking plastic gangsters. Anyhoo. Peace

HERE ARE THE LYRICS FOR ALL TO ENJOY :
San Quentin, you've been livin' hell to me
You've blistered me since nineteen sixty three
I've seen 'em come and go and I've seen them die
And long ago I stopped askin' why
San Quentin, I hate every inch of you.
You've cut me and you scarred me through and through.
And I'll walk out a wiser weaker man;
Mister Congressman you can't understand.
San Quentin, what good do you think you do?
Do you think I'll be different when you're through?
You bend my heart and mind and you warp my soul,
And your stone walls turn my blood a little cold.
San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell.
May your walls fall and may I live to tell.
May all the world forget you ever stood.
And may all the world regret you did no good.
San Quentin, I hate every inch of you.......

came alone
but never
by my
best picture
self print
just stands,
-both my
middles, up
a little
higher and
remember me
peace over
the last
mile pray
by knowing,
God, met
well just
I, know
no good
felt a
little
better no
oven loving,
on your
ears, I'm
just a
peace banging,
my same
pots, and
pans, under
this, same
ran can
"Hell's Vision"
Peace
Andrew David McCloskey
11-21-2019
11:05 P.M.

Is this concert on DVD

He could've been singing about Eastham Prison Farm in Lovelady Texis. The one Robt. Redford made film Brubaker.

This song is incredible, but what really makes this entire album so moving is the response from the audience.

you mean the criminals??

@Feneco feneco Well, yeah. Johnny Cash was a very vocal prison reform advocate at a time when "law and order," "tough on crime" politics were beginning to take center stage. He encouraged his listeners to empathize with inmates, and his live prison albums were a big part of that. So yes, the response from these men is something I find very powerful.

I used to do prison ministry and I did songs similar to Johnny Cash including Ain't No Grave

So, this guy performed this song in prison that houses the most notorious murderers in history of California?


Dude has my respect.

0:40 Damn Mark Zuckerberg :O

As a convict quite interesting. /CD

Unfunny. Isn’t it?

I hate every inch of that ҒUCК !!!

see you on the other side Johnny 👍🏻

You were there?

An American Icon for sure!!

They've been incarcerating law-breakers from time imimorial and it hasn't stopped a fucking one. 60% of prisoners have mental health issues and they haven't cured a fucking one. But it keeps the lower middle class in a job so I guess that's why.

Sheer impressive power...as always!!! Bless you, Johnny Cash!!

what a legend! John, RIP.

I love Johnny Cash's voice. Looking at these men's faces, not knowing anything about them, whether their incarceration is justified or not, makes me realise they are, after all, human beings. This must have been a great event for them.

Johnny looks like AMLO the president of Mexico

You've got the date wrong in the description. It says 1996 but should be 1969.

This is the type of thing Johnny Cash did that drove right wingers crazy. He wasn’t always gospel and Jesus. There was a very different side to Johnny Cash.

Shut the hell up .. 2 comments into this video & someone is bringing up politics. i throw up my hands

Chaos Live
What exactly do you think this performance was about genius. Are you not listening to the lyrics? Which part of “Mr. Congressman you can’t understand” do YOU not understand? We need serious prison reform even to this day. Right wingers just like to bob their heads to the melody, but don’t listen. Why don’t you wake up and join the fight against for-profit prisons? Oh wait, you can’t understand...

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An McCLO 👍🏻
How are you doing by the way

I work next to san quentin, its still standing

walls, coded
off the
raising, wall
coded keep
me out
as, enemy
walking, why;
I'm still
wondering, how;
they kept
me in
this, can

Is there a DVD with the full show?

0:37 was that fucking ted bundy?

God love you Mr. John R. Cash! Miss you! Rest in peace.

rock on johnny cash rock on 🤘

Why put pick pockets with murders and sex offenders?

Julie Mooney 👍🏻
How are you doing by the way

lt pays the girls.

So many views but so little comments

Himno de las prisiones

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

peace in
distance I,
tripled everything,
by three
holy by
love, of
tuff notes,
keep me
loving, the
distance for
shame stories,
the unspoken
mile keep
your days,
pissed because
yesterday might
stop bye

write/ erase//
did because
sometimes, I,
like the
time making,
best of
brakes, peace
up me
one; angel
raising, more
than love

perfects, never
asking, but
I'm always,
returning, I,
found you
repeating, first;
and I'm
the pissed
by knowing,
its, all
love, hell
I'm turning,
twice; I,
want love,
for saving,
the need
of me

I stood watch/guard duty at USN Treasure Island 1967, two hours a night, looking west the island San Quentin loomed large. Very cold metaphysically.

Hes a legend!

Dear Johnny Cash,
you miss me a lot.
I love you !

no black audience

Why isnt this on spotify?!

The Stoned Bear it is

Love how he NEVER even hints at a smile

you don't know
if you've never had your freedom taken away
just for being your harmless self

J R CASH you are a legend Sir the world was so lucky to have You

And to think that he had only written the song San Quentin the night before and had not rehearsed it that much before he sprung it on this crowd. The only thing more impressive than this would be if Johnny decided to take out some lyrics a songwriter had written for him, but which had no music, and decided to perform it for the first time (despite having never performed or rehearsed it at all with the band.) That would be really impressive. LOL

After this Johnny said the guards were shitting their pants, he could have instigated a riot easy.

Thank you Johnny.

🎶🎵👑❌⭕❌⭕❤💯

Anyone know who wrote this song?

Cash of course

So by this logic he should have welcomed all these fucking rapists and murderers into his community?? These were dangerous individuals and here is singing, antagonising the wardens and police and criticising the prison system that keeps these nonce cases and violent murderers under lock and key which allow him and other members of society to live our day to day lives safe?

Relax, he was invited by the wardens. These events keep the prison a safer place genius as the prisoners aren't as resentful. Good thing clowns like you aren't in charge.

Good point.

legendary song from my past!

The best !

As someone myself who has been to hell and back I see in his eyes a troubled man. If only people would realise what is important is been understood by other people.

The guards at San Quentin gave this a dislike

Crazy to think this was 50 years ago, what a legend

A true American icon!

I was on a detention centre when he relealesed this

Johnny cash was singing corridos in 1969.

CASH IS KING!

All I loved was Hip hop but when I joined the Army, my brothers put me up with the Man in Black. RIP Johnny and RIP to my bros. 12 bravo Combat Engineer

Absolute Legend. Bless him.

Johnny cash still the man

timeless

Grandejohnnycash

I first heard this song when I was 6yo, it was a regular on the radio in the UK when it was released, and I’ve heard it many, many times in the years since. But today’s the first time I’ve seen the video footage - actually I didn’t know there even was film of this gig, and good quality at that.

Absolutely fantastic
This is music history
RIP Johnny Cash
You will never be forgotten

🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

Big johnmeister loved his heroin

Jonny sang at city center ballroom in the early sixties it was an Irish ballroom jam packed when he was there I'll never forget rip johnny

Can we trade lady Gaga, Justin Beiber, Ariana grande, Taylor swift and Miley Cyrus to have Johnny back?

That‘s a very nice Song from Johnny Cash
PS.:( All Songs from Johnny Cash a very Nice)

Johny Cash is banned at san quinton. for 2 reasons, he was never there (but he was locked elsewhere( and the prisoners stayted a riot. I am not a prisoner there, but I would have joined that fight!

16 guards from San Quentin Prison disliked this

Literally one of the best artist of his generation and any generation really. Simplicity and soul at its finest with a complex message

Thanks for posting this historical moment (Y)

Man in black🖒

He always looked like a hitman

is that "Boggs" from the Shawshank Redemption at 0:33?

50 anos! Uauuu!

Very beautiful amazing voice and song

Wow great quality

WHO is the Full Video!??

Where ????

We are the FULL

*johnny enters heaven
Angel: Here's your white cloths.
Johnny: No thank you.
Angel: why?
Johnny: Cause i only where black.