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Mister Garfield by Johnny Cash
Mister Garfield
Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:B
Capo:2nd fret
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Me and my brother was down close to the depot
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When I heard the report of a pistol
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I hollered, 'I wonder what was that!'
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He run out and he come back and he said
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'That was a report of a pistol'
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And I thought I was gonna faint when he said it
[Chorus]
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'Mr. Garfield's been shot down, shot down, shot down
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Mr. Garfield's been shot down low'
[Verse 2]
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Lord, I knew the President was supposed to be down the depot that day
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But I just wouldn't let myself believe that he'd been shot
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Me and my bother run out there and everybody was all confused and hollering' and running' round
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And I stepped up to this one lady and I said that
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'Ma'am what was it really that happened Ma'am?', and she said that
[Chorus]
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'Mr. Garfield's been shot down, shot down, shot down
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Mr. Garfield's been shot down low'
[Verse 3]
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Well, it looked like everybody felt just about as bad as I did
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Everybody started drift off to home, me and my brother did too
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Then a few weeks later, I heard that the President was still alive
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So I told my brother, I said
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'Hey let's get on a train and go to that Big House up there and see how the President is'
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'Let's go up there to where he's laid up hurt and sick we'd see him'
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So we went on up there and that big White House and there was a soldier boy standin' round upside, outside
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And, I sidled up to him and I said to that soldier boy, I said
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'Who was it that did it? Who was it that shot the President?'
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And he said that, 'It was Charlie Guiteau that shot Mr. Garfield' and I said
[Chorus]
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'Charlie Guiteau done shot down a good man, good man
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Charlie Guiteau done shot down a good man low
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Charlie Guiteau done shot down a good man, good man'
[Verse 4]
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That soldier boy said that
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Miss Lucretia Garfield was always at his bedside
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In the heat of the day fannin' him when he was hot
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And he said just that mornin' that he had been at the window
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And he'd overheard Miss Lucretia and Mr. Garfield talkin'
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And Mr Garfield said, 'Crete, honey', he called her Crete
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He said, 'Crete, honey, if somethin' worse would happens to me'
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He said, 'You get yourself a good man' and she said, 'Now James', she called him James
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She said, 'James, I won't hear to that now 'cause I love you too much' and he said that
[Chorus]
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'You'll make some good man a good wife, good wife
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You'll make some man a good wife gal
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Don't pull in single harness all your life, good gal
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Don't pull in single harness all your life'
[Verse 5]
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That's what he said, 'Don't pull in single harness all your life'
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Well a little while later, we come back around there and things have changed
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The flag was hangin' halfway up the flagpole
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And everybody was cryin' and standin' 'round sad
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And I walked back up to this soldier boy and I said
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'Soldier boy, is he, is Mr Garfield?'
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And he said, 'Yeah, he's gone'
[Chorus]
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Gonna lay him by that cold lonesome branch down low
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Mr. Garfield's been shot down low
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Oh, Mr. Garfield's been shot down, shot down, shot down
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Mr. Garfield's been shot down low
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Have you heard the news? Mr. Garfield's been shot down, shot down, shot down
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Mr. Garfield's been shot down low, Lord
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