The Wanderer Lyrics

The song The Wanderer is performed by Johnny Cash in the album named The Essential Johnny Cash in the year 2002 .



I went out walking through the streets paved with gold
Lifted some stones, saw the skin and bones
Of a city without a soul

I went out walking under an atomic sky
Where the ground won't turn and the rain it burns
Like the tears when I said goodbye

Yeah, I went with nothing
Nothing but the thought of you
I went wandering

I went drifting through the capitals of tin
Where men can't walk or freely talk
And sons turn their fathers in

I stopped outside a church house where the citizens like to sit
They say they want the kingdom
But they don't want God in it

I went out riding, down that ol' eight lane
I pa*sed by a thousand signs
Looking for my own name

I went with nothing
But the thought you'd be there too
Looking for you

I went out there in search of experience
To taste and to touch and to feel's as much
As a man can before he repents

I went out searching, looking for one good man
A spirit who would not bend or break
Who could sit at his father's right hand

I went out walking with a bible and a gun
The word of God lay heavy on my heart
I was sure, I was the one

Now Jesus, don't you wait up, Jesus, I'll be home soon
Yeah, I went out for the papers
Told her I'd be back by noon

Yeah, I left with nothing
But the thought you'd be there too
Looking for you

Yeah, I left with nothing
Nothing but the thought of you
I went wandering




Johnny Cash - The Essential Johnny Cash

Feb 2002

  1. Hey Porter
  2. Cry Cry Cry
  3. I Walk The Line
  4. Get Rhythm
  5. There You Go
  6. Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
  7. Big River
  8. Guess Things Happen That Way
  9. All Over Again
  10. Don't Take Your Guns To Town
  11. Five Feet High And Rising
  12. The Rebel-Johnny Yuma
  13. Tennessee Flat-Top Box
  14. I Still Miss Someone
  15. Ring Of Fire
  16. The Ballad Of Ira Hayes
  17. Orange Blossom Special
  18. Were You There
  19. It Ain't Me, Babe
  20. The One On The Right Is On The Left
  21. Jackson
  22. Folsom Prison Blues
  23. Daddy Sang Bass
  24. Girl From The North Country
  25. A Boy Named Sue
  26. If I Were A Carpenter
  27. Sunday Morning Coming Down
  28. Flesh And Blood
  29. Man In Black
  30. Ragged Old Flag
  31. One Piece At A Time
  32. Riders In The Sky
  33. Song Of The Patriot
  34. Highwayman
  35. The Night Hank Williams Came To Town
  36. The Wanderer


The Wanderer