Lyrics Mister Garfield.lrc Johnny Cash
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[ar: Johnny Cash]
[al: America]
[ti: Mister Garfield]
[length: 03:54]
[00:02.43]Me and my brother was down close to the depot
[00:06.00]When I heard the report of a pistol
[00:08.82]I hollered, “I wonder what was that!”
[00:11.53]He run out and come back and he said
[00:13.34]”That was a report of a pistol”
[00:16.14]And I thought I was gonna faint when he said it
[00:18.81]”Mr. Garfield’s been shot down, shot down, shot down
[00:24.26]Mr. Garfield’s been shot down low”
[00:28.88]Lord, I knew the President was supposed to be down the depot that day
[00:34.26]But I just wouldn’t let myself believe that he’d been shot
[00:37.99]Me and my bother run out there and everybody was all confused
[00:40.68]And hollering’ and running’ round
[00:42.45]And I stepped up to this one lady and I said that
[00:44.28]”Ma’am what was it really that happened Ma’am?”, and she said that
[00:49.34]”Mr. Garfield’s been shot down, shot down, shot down
[00:54.72]Mr. Garfield’s been shot down low”
[01:00.22]Well, it looked like everybody felt just about as bad as I did
[01:03.88]Everybody started drift off to home
[01:06.67]Me and my brother did too
[01:09.34]Then a few weeks later, I heard that the President was still alive
[01:13.96]So I told my brother, I said, “Hey let’s get on a train
[01:17.55]And go to that Big House up there and see how the President is”
[01:21.14]”Let’s go up there to where he’s laid up hurt and sick we’d see him”
[01:25.70]So we went on up there and that big White House
[01:29.36]And there was a soldier boy standin’ round upside, outside
[01:32.11]And, I sidled up to him and I said to that soldier boy
[01:35.77]I said “Who was it that did it?
[01:38.43]Who was it that shot the President?”
[01:41.28]And he said that, “It was Charlie Guiteau that shot Mr. Garfield”
[01:44.81]And I said, “Charlie Guiteau done shot down a good man, good man
[01:51.24]Charlie Guiteau done shot down a good man low
[01:55.72]Charlie Guiteau done shot down a good man, good man”
[02:03.91]That soldier boy said that
[02:06.76]Miss Lucretia Garfield was always at his bedside
[02:11.26]In the heat of the day fannin’ him when he was hot
[02:13.95]And he said just that mornin’ that he had been at the window
[02:21.21]And he’d overheard Miss Lucretia and Mr. Garfield talkin’
[02:22.17]And Mr Garfield said, “Crete, honey”, he called her Crete
[02:27.63]He said, “Crete, honey, if somethin’ worse would happens to me”
[02:31.29]He said, “You get yourself a good man”
[02:34.03]And she said, “Now James”, she called him James
[02:37.62]She said, “James, I won’t hear to that now
[02:39.87]’Cause I love you too much”
[02:42.59]And he said that “You’ll make some good man a good wife, good wife
[02:47.10]You’ll make some man a good wife gal
[02:50.71]Don’t pull in single harness all your life, good gal
[02:55.32]Don’t pull in single harness all your life”
[02:58.92]That’s what he said, “Don’t pull in single harness all your life”
[03:00.70]Well a little while later, we come back around there
[03:05.39]And things have changed
[03:06.26]The flag was hangin’ halfway up the flagpole
[03:08.96]And everybody was cryin’ and standin’ ’round sad
[03:11.64]And I walked back up to this soldier boy and I said
[03:14.41]”Soldier boy, is he, is Mr Garfield?” and he said, “Yeah, he’s gone”
[03:22.67]Gonna lay him by that cold lonesome branch down low
[03:28.01]Mr. Garfield’s been shot down low
[03:31.72]Oh, Mr. Garfield’s been shot down, shot down, shot down
[03:36.24]Mr. Garfield’s been shot down low
[03:39.94]Have you heard the news?
[03:40.81]Mr. Garfield’s been shot down, shot down, shot down
[03:44.45]Mr. Garfield’s been shot down low, Lord
[03:51.48]Year of Release: 1972