Johnny Cash - Mister Garfield: chords

Chorus:
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Mr. Garfield been shot down shot down shot down
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Mr. Garfield been shot down low

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Me and my brother was down close
to the depot when
I heard the report of a pistol
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My brother run out and
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come back in all excited
And I said what was it and
he said it was the report of
a pistol and then he said

Chorus

Lord I knew the President was
supposed to be at the depot that day
And we just would't believe that he's shot
But we'd run over there and
there was so many folks around
That we couldn't see him
but some lady was standin' there crying
And I said m'am what was
it that happened m'am and she said

Chorus

Well everybody drifted off toward home finally
And they looked like they felt
about as bad as I did
But in a few weeks
I heard that the President was still alive
And I told my brother
I said let's get on that train and
go to where he's laid up hurt
Well when we got to his big
house up there I asked the fellow
I said who was it that did it
who was it that shoot the President
And he said it was Charlie
Guiteau that shoot Mr. Garfield and I said

Chorus:
Charlie Guiteau done shot down a good man good man
Charlie Guiteau done shot down a good man low

I heard some fellow there that
had been in the house to see the President
And I sidled up him to listen
to what he was telling and he said
Mrs Lucretia Garfield was always at his side
In the heat of the day fanning
him when he was hot
He said that just that day
the President said to Mrs Lucretia
He said Crete honey (he called her Crete)
Said if somethin' worse
happens to me after awhile
you get yourself a good man
And Mrs Lucretia said James
(she called him James)
She said I won't hear to that now
she said I love you too much but he said

Chorus:
You'll make some good man a good wife good wife
You'll make some man a good good good wife

(Don't pull in single harness
all your life good gal
Don't pull in single harness all your life)

That's what he said don't pull
in single harness all your life
Well a few days later
I come back to where the President was resting
And it seems everybody was crying
The flag was hanging halfway up
to the flagpole in front of the house
And everybody looked so sad and
I asked a soldier boy there
And I said is is is
Mr. Garfield and he said yeah he's gone

Chorus:
Going to lay him in that cold lonesome ground down low
Going to lay him in that cold lonesome ground
Well they laid the President
by that long cold branch
Mr. Garfield's been laid down low
Mr. Garfield has been shot dow
Mr. Garfield's been shot
(Mr. Garfield been shot down
shot down shot down
Mr. Garfield been shot down low)