Johnny Cash – The Caretaker (Guitar)

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I live in the cemetery, 'Old Caretaker' they call me

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In the wintertime I rake the leaves and in the summer I cut the weeds

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When a funeral comes the people cry and pray

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They bury their dead then they all go away

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And here I work and I somehow hide

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from a world that rushes by outside

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But each night when I rest my head

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I'm contented as the peaceful dead

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But who's going to cry when old John dies?

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Who's going to cry when old John dies?

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Once I was a young man, dashing with the girls

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Now no one wants an old man, I lost my handsome curls

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But I want to say, when my time comes

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Lay me facing the rising sun

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Put me in a corner where I buried my pup

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Tell the preacher to pray then cover me up

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Don't plant flowers where my head should be

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Maybe God would let some grow for me

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And all the little children that I love like my own

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Will they be sorry that old John's gone?

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But who's going to cry when old John dies?

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Who's going to cry when old John dies?