Juke Box Blues

"Juke Box Blues" is a country music song written by June Carter Cash's mother, Maybelle Carter and June's sister, Helen Carter. The song was recorded by June Carter Cash, and was one of Carter Cash's few hits. In the 2005 film, "Walk the Line", it was sung by Reese Witherspoon.

Each stanza has the same melody, followed by a short instrumental interlude played by the instrument(s) referred to in the previous stanza. Example lyric:

""I walked into a honkey tonkey just the other dayI dropped a nickel in the juke box just to hear it playI didn't have no tune in mind, I didn't wait to chooseJust dropped a nickel in the slot and I played the juke box blues

Theres a guy in there with an old tin hornAnd a feller on an old banjo, and the man of the fiddleHe wasn't no slouch he could really drag that bowWell, the man on the fiddle he must have got tiredI didn't hear him say, 'cause he cut loose on the steel guitarAnd the juke box ran awayAnd I've herd something going strongIt must have been a drumIt gave that song a solid beatBoy it was goin' some

I walked into a honkey tonkey just the other dayI dropped a nickel in the juke box just to hear it playI didn't have no tune in mind, I didn't wait to chooseJust dropped a nickel in the slot and I played the juke box blues

I've played a lot of juke boxes, most everyone in townThat's the first tune I've ever heardThat can make one night surroundPlay the juke box blues, such a rythum I've never heardI danced out both of my shoes""