Capo: 1

THE CARETAKER -J.Cash- Recorded 3/12/59 Nashville, TN Songs of Our Soil (1959) KEY: Bb / CAPO: 1 / PLAY: A VERSE:

^AI live in the ceme^Etery Oh ^DCaretaker they call ^Ame In the winter time I rake the ^Eleaves And in the ^Dsummer I cut the ^Aweeds

^AWhen a ^Dfuneral comes the people^A cry and pray They ^Ebury their dead then they ^Aall go away ^DBut thru their grief I^A still can see Their ^Ehate and greed and ^Ajealousy ^DSo here I work and I ^Asomehow hide From a ^Eworld that rushes ^Aby outside ^DAnd each night when I ^Arest my head I'm ^Econtented as the ^Dpeaceful ^Adead

CHORUS:

^ABut who's gonna cry when old John dies ^EWho's gonna cry when ^Dold John ^Adies

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

Johnny Cash - The caretaker