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Over in the Tadpool group on Facebook, there’s a thread on the topic of “What’s your favourite song to sing in the shower?” One of the commenters wrote: “That’s a tough one I don’t know if I have a favorite… I will sing anything from Johnny Cash, Folsom Prisom¹ Rainbow Connection.”

Being a filker, of course…and a filker fresh off a con where my creative brain is already in gear, the following just fell out of my head:

Why are there so many songs about prisons
And people who are inside?
I’m stuck in this one because once in Reno
I shot a man to watch him die
I guess, in hindsight, I kind of deserve it
It wasn’t a nice thing to do
But as that train rumbles past old Folsom Prison
I can’t help but cry, wouldn’t you?

I’m not sure there’s really a point in going further with it; the joke is complete at the end of the first verse.² I really need to start a file just for little show-stoppers like this one.

Quipped another: ”Folsom Prism is my Johnny Cash ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ cover album. I’d pay serious money for that album. Serious money. ↩
As Bill Sutton taught me: ”Short is good. Funny is good. Short and funny is best. ↩

Mirrored from Home of the Autographed Cat.