The Chicken In Black Songtext

The Chicken in Black For two long years my head hurt bad, so the doctor checked me and he shook his head, He said: ?I?m sorry to tell you, but your body outlived your brain?. He said: ?I know this doctor in New York, son and he?ll fix you right up with a brand new one?. So the head doctor met me when I stepped down off the train. He said: ?We had this bank robber killed last night. His body?s shot, but his brain?s alright. I?ll give you a transplant boy and you?ll be o.k.? I got my new brain and I was feelin? great. I went right back to Nashville with no headache, But somethin? strange happened when I walked in the bank one day. I said: ?Stick ?em everybody, I?m robbin? this place. Drop all of your money in my guitar case. Don?t nobody move and don?t nobody reach for that door?. A lady said: ?Why you?re Johnny Cash?. I said: ?No m?am, I?m the Manhattan Flash and I am the best bank robber in New York?. Now the other night Roy Acuff called me. He said: ?John, I?d like for you to do the opry?. So I went out on the stage but I couldn?t sing. I got into half a verse of ?I Walk The Line? Then somethin? snapped in this head of mine, I yelled, ?Stick ?em up, give me your money, your watches and rings?. Well, I called New York and talked to that brain quack. I said: ?Doc, I?ve got to have my old brain back?. He said: ?I?m sorry there; Mr. Cash, but I can?t do that?. He said: ?I put your brain in a chicken last Monday. He?s singin? your songs and makin? lots of money, And I got him signed to a ten year recording contract?. Now friends, if you see me walkin? down the street, Remember what you see ain?t necessarily me. And if I try to hold you up don?t pay me no mind, But when you got ten bucks that you can blow. You ought a catch that Johnny Chicken Show. He?s doin? fairs and concert dates all up and down the line. I said: ?Stick ?em everybody, I?m robbin? this place. Drop all of your money in my guitar case, Don?t nobody move and don?t nobody reach for that door?. A lady said: ?Why you?re Johnny Cash?. I said: ?No m?am, I?m the Manhattan Flash and I am the best bank robber in New York?. Well, I don?t pay any income tax you don?t pay tax on money you steal, You ought a catch that Johnny Chicken Show Chicken in black!