Lost John Lyrics

The song Lost John is performed by Woody Guthrie in the album named Anthology in the year 2006 .



Gonna tell you the story
About old Lost John
Lost John was a boy that got loose
From a chain gang down in Louisiana

About sixteen bloodhound, took in after him
Sheriffs, deputies
And everybody else in the county
Chasin? him all across the swamp

Lost John outrun the bloodhounds there
All night long, it was long towards mornin?
He looked up to the tree there
And seen the lights from a house

He didn?t know whether the people inside
Was friends or were enemies
So he wanted to go up to the house
So, and asked if he could stay there
To get away from the bloodhounds

He was afraid if he did go up there
That the people might set their dogs
Barking at him or shoot him down
With a Winchester riffle

This is the story about Lost John

Old Lost John ain?t lost no more



Woody Guthrie - Anthology

Nov 2006

  1. A Dollar Down
  2. Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way
  3. Bad Lee Brown
  4. Blowing Down The Road
  5. Boll Weevil Blues
  6. Brown Eyes
  7. Bury Me Beneath The Willow
  8. Columbus Stockade
  9. Cumberland Gap
  10. Ezekiel Saw The Wheel
  11. Get Along Little Doggies
  12. Hang Knot
  13. Hey Lolly Lolly
  14. Howjadoo
  15. Jack Hammer Blues
  16. John Henry
  17. Johnny Hard
  18. Lonesome Day
  19. Lost John
  20. More Pretty Girls Than One
  21. Old Time Religion
  22. Ride Old Paint
  23. Skip To My Lou
  24. Sourwood Mountain
  25. Springfield Mountain
  26. Struggle Blues
  27. Great Dust Storm
  28. Golden Vanity
  29. Dying Miner
  30. Tom Joad Blues Pt. 1
  31. Tom Joad Blues Pt. 2
  32. Union Burying Ground
  33. Waiting At The Gate
  34. We Shall Be Free
  35. What Did The Deep Sea Say?
  36. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Feet?
  37. Whoopie Tii Yi Yo, Get Along Little Doggies
  38. Will You Miss Me?

Lost John