Mister Garfield (Mono Version)

作词:Jack Elliott

作曲:Jack Elliott

所属专辑:Sings the Ballads of the True West

歌词

歌曲名 Mister Garfield (Mono Version) 歌手名 Johnny Cash

作词:Jack Elliott

作曲:Jack Elliott

Mr Garfield been shot down

Shot down shot down

Mr Garfield been shot down low

Me and my brother

Was down close to the depot

When I heard the report of a pistol

My brother run out and 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

Mr Garfield been shot down

Shot down shot down

Mr Garfield been shot down low

Lord I knew the President

Was supposed to be at the depot that day

And we just wouldn'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 cryin'

And I said Ma'am what was it that happened Ma'am

And she said

Mr Garfield been shot down

Shot down shot down

Mr Garfield been shot down low

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

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 tellin' and he said

Mrs Lucretia Garfield was always at his side

In the heat of the day fannin' him when he was hot

He said that just that day

The President said to Mrs Lucretia

He said Crete honey

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

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 restin'

And it seems everybody was cryin'

The flag was hangin' 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

Gonna lay him in that

Cold lonesome ground down low

Gonna 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 been shot down

Shot down shot down

Mr Garfield been shot down low

Mr Garfield been shot down

Shot down shot down

Mr Garfield been shot down low

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