Johnny Cash - Cisco Clifton’s Filling Station lyrics

It's not always the land that's
The hardest and bitterest
It's the man who has
The hard bitter attitude
Toward his fellow man or toward the land
Such is the case that you will
Find in this following song
About a man's attitude toward his fellow
Man and toward this land
I walked in the big yard
To feel the warm sunshine
A ninety-nine year man stepped over to me
He offered a smoke and he said as I rolled it
Tomorrow I'm going to break out and go free
They watch us by sunlight they
Watch us by spotlight
But I know a way for a man to go free
Down under my cell I'm digging a tunnel
The walls of a prison will never hold me
I told him that I'd have
No part of his scheming
My time would be over one year from today
His eyes blazed with fire and
He looked right through me
Bitter but broken again he did say

They watch us by sunlight

Next morning at breakfast the
Old man was missing
Then we all heard the rifles
High up on the wall
He'd gone through the tunnel just
Like he had promised
And they said he was crying
When they saw him fall