Johnny Cash - The Caretaker guitar chord

THE CARETAKER

-J.Cash-

Recorded 3/12/59 Nashville, TN

Songs of Our Soil (1959)

KEY: Bb / CAPO: 1 / PLAY: A

VERSE:

A E

I live in the cemetery

D A

Oh Caretaker they call me

E

In the winter time I rake the leaves

D A

And in the summer I cut the weeds

A D A

When a funeral comes the people cry and pray

E A

They bury their dead then they all go away

D A

But thru their grief I still can see

E A

Their hate and greed and jealousy

D A

So here I work and I somehow hide

E A

From a world that rushes by outside

D A

And each night when I rest my head

E D A

I'm contented as the peaceful dead

CHORUS:

A

But who's gonna cry when old John dies

E D A

Who's gonna cry when old John dies

VERSE:

Once I was a young man

Dashing with the girls

Now no one wants an old man

I lost my handsome curls

But I wanna say when my time comes

Lay me facing the rising sun

Put me in a corner where I buried my pop

Tell the preacher to pray and cover me up

Don't lay flowers where my head should be

Maybe God will let some grow from me

And all the little childern that I loved like my own

Will they be sorry that old John's gone

CHORUS:

Who's gonna cry when old John dies

Who's gonna cry when old John dies