Route No. 1, Box 144 chords by
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash

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Key: A major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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C
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His dying barely made
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the morning paper
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And they summed it up in
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C
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twenty words or more
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Killed in action leaves wife and baby
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D
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At Route #1, Box 144
Verse 2
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He grew up on a little farm
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Just a couple of miles out of town
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As a boy he worked in his daddy's field
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And when his daddy could spare him
Verse 3
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He hired out to the neighbors
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For whatever they could pay him
He was thought of as just
average a good boy
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Nothing more the average
amount of friends
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He married his high
Verse 4
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school sweetheart
They brought a little plot of ground
Couple of miles out of town
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on a mailbox it said
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D
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Route #1, Box 144
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Well, back in town there were very
Verse 5
few people
That really knew him because he
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hardly ever came to town
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Except for maybe on Saturdays of course
The usual crew was always there
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But he didn't spend a lot
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of times with the usual crew
Verse 6
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He took care of his business
Bought what he had to have or could
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afford for his family
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And went back to his little farm
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With a baby on the way
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he went to the army
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And it was just a short while
that the news came
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That he was killed in action
Verse 7
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His body was sent back on a plane
and then by train
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And then they brought the
body from the train station
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To Route #1, Box 144
Verse 8
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C
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He never did great things to
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be remembered
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He'd never been away
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C
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from home before
But you'd've thought that
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he was president or something
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At Route #1, Box 144
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