Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Lost John, artist - Woody Guthrie. Date of issue: 05.11.2019
Song language: English
Lost John |
| 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 |