[Vision2020] And Justice for All

[Joe Campbell]

The song quoted below is COVERED by Johnny Cash but was originally recorded by Bill Landford & The Landfordaires (1943), as I mentioned the first time that Doug posted this quote. 

The author is listed as "Traditional." The Landforaires version was called "Run On For a Long Time" but Cash's is entitled "God's Gonna Cut You Down." Cash's version is fine but the original version is sublime. Moby produced a version of the song called "Run On" containing all of the Landforaires' version and adding additional instruments. The original was, except for a few guitar strums in the beginning, entirely a cappella. Talk about a sin!

Among the people that God is going to cut down, according to the song, is the  "long tongue liar." I find this quote, as I do Doug's favorite -- "What's done in the dark will be brought to the light" -- interesting in the context of Schwaller.

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Joe Campbell

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> You can run on for a long time
> Run on for a long time
> Run on for a long time
> Sooner or later God'll cut you down
> Sooner or later God'll cut you down
>
> Go tell that long tongue liar
> Go and tell that midnight rider
> Tell the rambler,
> The gambler,
> The back biter
> Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
> Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
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> Well my goodness gracious let me tell you the news
> My head's been wet with the midnight dew
> I've been down on bended knee talkin' to the man from Galilee
> He spoke to me in the voice so sweet
> I thought I heard the shuffle of the angel's feet
> He called my name and my heart stood still
> When he said, "John go do My will!"
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> Go tell that long tongue liar
> Go and tell that midnight rider
> Tell the rambler,
> The gambler,
> The back biter
> Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
> Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
>
> You can run on for a long time
> Run on for a long time
> Run on for a long time
> Sooner or later God'll cut you down
> Sooner or later God'll cut you down
>
> Well you may throw your rock and hide your hand
> Workin' in the dark against your fellow man
> But as sure as God made black and white
> What's done in the dark will be brought to the light
>
> You can run on for a long time
> Run on for a long time
> Run on for a long time
> Sooner or later God'll cut you down
> Sooner or later God'll cut you down
>
> Go tell that long tongue liar
> Go and tell that midnight rider
> Tell the rambler,
> The gambler,
> The back biter
> Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down
> Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down
> Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down
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