I hear the train a comin´ it´s rolling round the bend well I ain´t seen the sunshine since I don´t know when, but I´m stuck in folsom prison, and time keeps draggin´ on
but I hear the train a rollin´ on down to San Anton. when I was just a baby my mama told me. son, always be a good boy, and don´t ever play with guns. but I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die and I hear the whistle blowing, I my head and cry.
I bet there´s rich folks eating in a fancy dining car they´re probably drinkin´ whiskey and smoking big cigars. well I know I had it coming, I know I can´t be free but those people keep a movin´ and that´s what tortures me...
and if they´d free me from this prison, if that railroad train were mine I bet I´d move a little on a little farther down the line far from folsom prison, that´s where I want to be and I´d let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away...