California Poem
By Johnny Cash
1966
There’s trouble on the mountain
And the valley’s full of smoke
There’s crying on the mountain
And again the same heart broke.
The lights are on past midnite
The curtains closed all day
There’s trouble on the mountain
The valley people say.
Copyright Credit: Johnny Cash, "California Poem" from Forever Words: The Unknown Poems. Edited by Paul Muldoon, copyright © 2016 by John R. Cash Revocable Trust. Used by permission of Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Source: Forever Words (Blue Rider Press, 2016)