This song was mentioned by headeast on 29-Jan-2006:


GOIN' BY THE BOOK
Words and music by Chester Lester
As recorded by Johnny Cash on "The Mystery of Life" (1990)

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 got guns an' tanks an' planes.
The wells have 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.
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.

CHORUS: '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 and 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 are the trumpets gettin' ready to blow.
There's gonna be a shout that'll wake the dead; we better be ready to go. CHORUS