Johnny Cash – Mister Garfield (Guitar)

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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

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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'

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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

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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'

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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

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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'

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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

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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'

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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'

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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