Cisco Clifton's Fillin' Station Lyrics - Johnny Cash

Cisco Clifton had a fillin' station 

About a mile and a half from town 

Most cars passed unless they were out of gas 

So Cisco was always around 

Regular gas was all that it sold 

Except tobacco matches and oil 

Other than that he fixed lots of flats 

Keepin' Cisco rough hands soiled 

He'd wipe the gas and check the air 

In a hundred times a day 

He patiently gave directions 

On how to get to the state highway 

Usually he'd give 'em water 

Or a tyre or two some air 

And once a big black Cadillac 

Spent seven dollars there 

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He'd give anybody anything they'd ask 

And lend anything he had 

His tools are tyres bumper jacks or wire 

To the good ones or the bad 

In wintertime there was a depot stove 

And a table for a checker game 

And every mornin' at sunup 

The same checker players came 

So Cisco Clifton's fillin' station 

Was always in the red 

Personal loans were personally gone 

But never a word was said 

One mornin' at eight, them checker players 

Heard a big bulldozer roar like a freight 

And Cisco said I hope my kids stay fed 

When they build that Interstate 

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He'd managed to pay for property 

Where his little fillin' station sat 

And friends still came for checker game 

So Cisco settled for that 

He wouldn't say so but Cisco knew 

That the Interstate was too much to fight 

But to keep his will and to pay his bills 

He did odd jobs at night 

He still opened up at sunrise 

And the checker game went on 

The cars flew past on highest gas 

And the neighbors had sold out and gone 

If a car ever did go by he was lost 

And if they stopped they were treated the same 

So at Cisco Clifton's fillin' station 

There's a howdy and a checker game