Johnny Cash - The Bug That Tried to Crawl Around the World lyrics
[Johnny Cash - The Bug That Tried to Crawl Around the World lyrics]
Now you've heard of folks with
A lot of ambition
But I believe just about the biggest
Case of ambition I ever saw
Was in a bug that I saw
Crawling along the beach one day
He was a mighty ambitious bug
On the beach one early morning as
A day was newly dawning
And the sun again was warmin all
The chill through out the land
I saw me a bug a walking and
At first I thought he was quaking
Then I found out he was talking
While he crawled across the sand
He was crawling mighty straight at a
Slow but a steady gait
And when I asked him to wait he
Said oh come on crawl with me
But I said where you going and
He said you'll be knowing
For I'm going to make a
Showing and you'll someday see
Well I stood there by the ocean
I suddenly had the notion
That I start this big promotion so this
Challenge I enfirled said the bug
So I gave my wife a hug
And I left my confy rug
So I could be the only bug
That ever crawled around the world
Well he seemed mighty small and it
Was a long way to crawl
And I'm sure he couldn't swim at all
So I try to discourage my friend
I said you know the world is round
And there's mighty lot of ground
And there some water to be found
Before you reach your journey's end
And he said now don't you fret
There's problems to be met
But I'll make it you can bet and this
Deed will bring glory to my name
You know they said man would never fly
Now he's soarin' in the sky
Because he had the will to try
So let me win my fame
So he crawled on out of sight
As he sought that splendoured height
Neither looking left nor right but
Slowly marching toward his goal
And my knowing he had started on
His journey as we parted
Kept me from feeling too down hearted for
He was a mighty ambitious soul
Well I've looked everywhere I've
Been and seen a lot of bugs since then
But not one quite like my little friend when
I think of him I'm filled with pride
Did he make it I don't
Know he was crawling mighty
Slow and he had a long way to go
And all I can tell you folks is that
He tried he sure was an ambitious bug
A lot of ambition
But I believe just about the biggest
Case of ambition I ever saw
Was in a bug that I saw
Crawling along the beach one day
He was a mighty ambitious bug
On the beach one early morning as
A day was newly dawning
And the sun again was warmin all
The chill through out the land
I saw me a bug a walking and
At first I thought he was quaking
Then I found out he was talking
While he crawled across the sand
He was crawling mighty straight at a
Slow but a steady gait
And when I asked him to wait he
Said oh come on crawl with me
But I said where you going and
He said you'll be knowing
For I'm going to make a
Showing and you'll someday see
Well I stood there by the ocean
I suddenly had the notion
That I start this big promotion so this
Challenge I enfirled said the bug
So I gave my wife a hug
And I left my confy rug
So I could be the only bug
That ever crawled around the world
Well he seemed mighty small and it
Was a long way to crawl
And I'm sure he couldn't swim at all
So I try to discourage my friend
I said you know the world is round
And there's mighty lot of ground
And there some water to be found
Before you reach your journey's end
And he said now don't you fret
There's problems to be met
But I'll make it you can bet and this
Deed will bring glory to my name
You know they said man would never fly
Now he's soarin' in the sky
Because he had the will to try
So let me win my fame
So he crawled on out of sight
As he sought that splendoured height
Neither looking left nor right but
Slowly marching toward his goal
And my knowing he had started on
His journey as we parted
Kept me from feeling too down hearted for
He was a mighty ambitious soul
Well I've looked everywhere I've
Been and seen a lot of bugs since then
But not one quite like my little friend when
I think of him I'm filled with pride
Did he make it I don't
Know he was crawling mighty
Slow and he had a long way to go
And all I can tell you folks is that
He tried he sure was an ambitious bug