Goin' By The Book Lyrics - Ring Of Fire - Johnny Cash

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Goin By The Book 

You can see it in the movies and the paper and the TV news 

Somebody's army is always on the move 

There's gonna be a battle the lines have been drawn 

They've got guns and tanks and planes 

The wells are gone dry and the water is bad and the air is acid rain 

There's war after war and rumors of war from the East 

There's a rumblin' in the ground and they're talkin' about the beast 

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Good mothers cry cause the rivers run high 

With the blood of too many sons 

Some people say peace is on the way 

But the worst is still to come 

Cause the prophets wrote about it 

And Jesus spoke about it 

And John got to take a look 

And he told us what he saw when it's easy to see 

It's goin' by the book 

It's goin' by the book 

There's armies in the cities and the missiles stand ready for flight 

A pale horse rides like the wind across the night 

And that rumblin' in the desert like thunder gettin' closer 

And the trumpet's gettin' ready to blow 

There's gonna be a shout that will wake the dead we better be ready to go 

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Cause the prophets wrote about it 

And Jesus spoke about it 

And John got to take a look 

And he told us what he saw when it's easy to see 

It's goin' by the book 

It's goin' by the book 

It's goin' by the book 

Goin' by the book