Johnny Cash

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

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

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

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

Goin' by the book