elegy for johnny cash chords by Jackie Leven

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Don't bury me
in the fields I knew
Nor in the caves where I got lost
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Em 
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Don't bury me in my broken word,
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Em 
nor in the women that I love.
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Em 
I'm a real gunman.
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Em 
I'm a real gunman.
Don't flurry me on the endless plain
Don't let me die on the shame -bound train
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I hear women singing in the valley below
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Em 
As they bury a boy they
didn't even know
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Em 
I'm a real gone man,
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Em 
I'm a real gone man
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Lord, don't make me wait too long
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G 
I'm already rich
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G 
Rich in the things I've seen and done
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I'm already rich
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I give thanks for the tears
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G 
of all my friends
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G 
Mmm, the mice and the
Em 
mighty men within
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G 
Ah, please bury me
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Em 
Ah, will you bury me
D 
Bury me
Bury me
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Em 
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Em 
Bury me in God
And the ice flowed right down to the sea
And it froze the waves to infinity
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I saw the figure right across their eyes
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Em 
I heard an old clock tick,
I heard scuttling mice
I walked streets of stone
in the gathering grind
Where a man before me walked the line
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I'm a thousand miles
from the mountain air
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Em 
And my sweetheart's
bare in hands that care
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D 
Em 
I'm a real gunman
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D 
Em 
I'm a real gunman
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Lord, don't make me wait too long,
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G 
I'm already rich
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Rich in the things I've seen and done,
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I'm already rich
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Give thanks for the tears
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of all my friends
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Mmm, the bison,
Em 
the mighty man with it
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G 
Ah, please bury me
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Em 
Ah, won't you bury me
D 
Bury me
Bury me
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Em 
Bury me in God
The corn and the hot wind starts to ride
I go to the barn and get my side
But swallowing the heart
makes them get away
I've got a better in my heart
at the end of the day
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