- The Letter Edged in Black
- There's a Mother Always Waiting at Home
- The Engineer's Dying Child
- My Mother Was a Lady
- The Winding Stream
- Far Away Places
- Galway Bay
- When I Stop Dreaming
- Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
- I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen
- Missouri Waltz
- Louisiana Man
- Paradise
- I Don't Believe You Wanted to Leave
- Jim, I Wore a Tie Today
- Saginaw, Michigan
- When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below)
- Girl in Saskatoon
- The Cremation of Sam McGee
- Tiger Whitehead
- It's All Over
- A Fast Song
- Virgie
- I Wanted so
- It Takes One to Know Me
- Seal It in My Heart and Mind
- Wildwood in the Pines
- Who at My Door Is Standing
- Have Thine Own Way, Lord
- Lights of Magdala
- If Jesus Ever Loved a Woman
- The Lily of the Valley
- Have a Drink of Water
- The Way Worn Traveler
- Look unto the East
- Matthew 24 (Is Knocking at the Door)
- The House Is Falling Down
- One of These Days I'm Gonna Sit Down and Talk to Paul
- What on Earth (Will You Do for Heaven's Sake)
- My Children Walk in Truth
- No Earthly Good
- Sanctified
- Lord, Lord, Lord
- What Is Man
- Over the Next Hill (We'll Be Home)
- A Half a Mile a Day
- Farther Along
- Life's Railway to Heaven
- In the Sweet Bye and Bye
The story of how
Providentially, the younger Cash invited executives from Legacy Recordings to visit the premises. During an unofficial tour of the facility they unearthed, among other things, a number of neat white boxes the Man in Black had marked "Personal File." In them, there was a goldmine of unreleased material, informal sessions Johnny Cash never thought were suitable for commercial release.
He was right. At its most superficial,
"Through times of loneliness and heartbreak and despair and sadness I've always found that a good song of inspiration will lift me up and make me feel just a little bit better," says Cash at the intro of "Who at My Door Is Standing," but we know "a little better" is an understatement. Through the majority of the spiritual songs, Cash sounds downright