“The Hard Way”
Put myself through
The fights I
Didn’t need to fight
This thick head of mine
Ya couldn’t get through
Had to do it wrong
Just to get it right
…just to get it right
I learned the Hard Way
The hard way taught me well
The hard way
Sure put me (this boy) through some hell
The hard way
Taught me how to tell
The right way from the wrong
And on which side I belong
Deep are the memories
As a young boy
Of the lessons
That I learned
My mama warnin’ me
That fire is no toy
Ya play with fire boy
And you get burned
…Oh I got burned
I learned the Hard Way
I learned the Hard Way
What others learned in Sunday school
I learned by gettin’ black n’ blue
I learned the Hard Way
I learned the Hard Way
About Johnny Cash Lyrics
Artist: Johnny Cash
Related songs: Mobile Bay Lyrics
Album: The Baron
Release date: June 1, 1981
Label: Columbia Graphophone Company
Born: February 26, 1932, Kingsland, Arkansas, United States
Died: September 12, 2003, Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Graduation date: 1950
Edited works: I Walk the Line: Very Best of Johnny Cash, MORE
Hall of fame inductions: February 8, 1960, 1977, 1992, 2011