Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash - ONEY guitar chord

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Date: 6/7/97; 7:07:22 PM

From: ah827@rgfn.epcc.Edu (Gene L. Graham)

Subject: ONEY

ONEY

Recorded by Johnny Cash

Words and music by Jerry Chestnut

(SPOKEN)

I dedicate this song to the workin' man

For ever' man that puts in a hard

Eight or ten hours a day of work and toil and sweat

Always got somebody lookin' down his neck

Tryin' to get more out of 'im

Than he really ought to have to put in.

CAPO: 1st Fret/KEY: G#/PLAY: G

(G) After twenty nine long years of workin'

In this shop with Oney standin' o-(A7) ver me ...

To-(D7)day when that old whistle blows

I'll check in all my gear and I'll re-(G) tire ...

The superintendent just dropped by and said

They'd planned my little get to-(A7) gether ...

Then (D7) he said I'd never made it

If old Oney hadn't held me to the (G) fire.

I've seen him in my dreams at night

And woke up in the mornin' feelin' tired ...

And old Oney don't remember when I came here

How he tried to get me fired ...

With his folded hands behind him

Every mornin' Oney waited at the gate ...

Where he'd rant and rave like I committed murder

Clockin' in five minutes late.

CHANGE TO A:

(A) But today they'll gather 'round me

Like I've seen 'em do when any man (B7) retires ...

Then (E7) old Oney's gonna tell me

>From now on I'm free to do what I (A) desire ...

He'll present me with that little old gold watch

They give a man at times (B7) like this ...

But (E7) there's one thing he's not countin' on

Today's the day I give old Oney (A) his.

CHANGE TO C:

(C) I've been workin', buildin' muscles

Oney's just been standin' 'round a-get-(D7) tin' soft ...

And (G7) today about four-thirty

I'll make up for every good night's sleep (C) I've lost ...

When I'm gone I'll be remembered

As the workin' man who put his point (D7) across ...

With (G7) a right hand full of knuckles

'Cause today I show old Oney who's the (C) boss.

Hmmmm! What time is it? Four thirty! Hey, Oney! Oney! Ha ha ha ha!

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