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THE CARETAKER -J.Cash- Recorded 3/12/59 Nashville, TN Songs of Our Soil (1959) KEY: Bb / CAPO: 1 / PLAY: A VERSE:
CI live in the cemeGtery Oh FCaretaker they call Cme In the winter time I rake the Gleaves And in the Fsummer I cut the Cweeds
CWhen a Ffuneral comes the peopleC cry and pray They Gbury their dead then they Call go away FBut thru their grief IC still can see Their Ghate and greed and Cjealousy FSo here I work and I Csomehow hide From a Gworld that rushes Cby outside FAnd each night when I Crest my head I'm Gcontented as the Fpeaceful Cdead
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CBut who's gonna cry when old John dies GWho's gonna cry when Fold John Cdies
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