Category: Johnny Cash

1.
Now I will tell ya buster
That I aint a fan of Custer’s
And the general he dont ride well anymore
To some he was a hero
But to me his score was zero
And the genereal he dont ride well anymore

2.
Now custer done his fightin
Without too much excitin
And the general he dont ride well anymore
General Custer come in pumpin
When the men were out a huntin
And the genereal he dont ride well anymore

With victories he was swimmin
He killed children dogs ‘n’ women
But the general he dont ride well anymore
Crazy Horse sent out to call
To Sitting Bull and gall
And the general he dont ride well anymore

Now Custer split his men
Well he wont do that again
Cause the general he dont ride well anymore
Twelve thousand warriors waited
They were unanticipated
And the general he dont ride weel anymore

Its not called an Indian victory
But a bloody massacre
And the general he dont ride well any more
There might have been more (infusion or enthusin?)
If us Indians had been losin
But the general he dont ride well anymore

General George A. Custer
Aw his yeller hair had luster
But the genereal he dont ride well anymore
Fore now the general’s silent
He got barberes viloent?
And the genereal he dont ride well anymore

Aw the general he dont ride well anymore

(with laughter through the words)

Additional Note: He sang it live with Buffy St. Marie, and I believe that he switches to the tonic
chord quicker than he does on the original recording.
Like this:
Now I will tell ya buster
That I aint a fan o[(G)]f Custer’s

KEY: C# / CAPO: 1 / PLAY: C

VERSE:
It’s been something seeing you again
And in this time we’ve had to spend
You’ve been so good to be around
I thank you for that special thrill
Keeps me going on until the next time I’m in town

VERSE:
Though I won’t be back here for a while
I’ll hear your laughter see your smile
I’ll remember what went down
Though I don’t know how or when
I’ll be seeing you again the next time I’m in town

CHORUS:
Till the next time that I’ll be passing through
Think of all the things we’ve go to look forward to
Checking up on old friends staying up all night long
Playing jukebox music singing old country songs
Yes the faces and the places range across the bridge of time
And change and once again I’m homeward bound
But there’s one thing I promise you
That’s another rendezvous the next time I’m in town

VERSE:
Yes it’s been something seeing you again
And in this time we’ve had to spend
You’ve been so good to be around
I thank you for that special thrill
Keeps me going on until the next time I’m in town

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She climbs the flowery mountains over the hills and by the shores
She mighty tall and handsome she’s known quite well by all
She’s a regular combination on the wabash cannonball

Chorus:
Listen to the jingle the rumble and the rore
As she glides along the woodlands over the hills and by the shores
The mighty rush of the engine hears those lonesome hobbos call
Travelin through the jungle on the wabash cannonball

Well she came down from Birmingham one cold september day
As she pulled into the station you could hear all the people say
She’s from Tenessee she’s long and she’s tall
She came down form Birmingham on the wabash cannonball

Sing Chorus

Heres the daddy blacksman may his name forever stand
And always be remembered in the courts throughout the land
His earthly race is over and the curtains round and tall
They’ll carry him home to Dixie on the wabash cannonball

Sing Chorus

I will dance I will sing and my laugh shall be gay
I will charm every heart in her crown I will sway
When I woke from my dreaming my idols were clay
All portions of love had all flown away.

Oh she taught me to love her and promised to love
And to cherish me over all others above
How my heart is now wondering no misery can tell
She left me no warning no words of farewell.

Yes she taught me to love her and called me her flower
That was blooming to cheer her through life’s dreary hour
Oh I long to see her and regret the dark hour
She’s gone and neglected her pale wildwood flower.

God’s Gonna Cut You Down – Johnny Cash

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Johnny Cash

There are a couple of good tabs of this song, but something just didn’t sound right to
See what you think…

Tuning: Standard
Capo 1st Fret

Intro: Am

1st Chorus:
You can run on for a long time,
Run on for a long time,
Run on for a long time,
Sooner or later, God’ll cut you down.
Sooner or later, God’ll cut you down.

2nd Chorus:
Go and tell that long tongue liar,
Go and tell that midnight rider,
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the backbiter,
Tell ’em that God’s gonna cut ‘em down.
Tell ’em that God’s gonna cut ‘em down.

Verse 1:
Well my goodness gracious let me tell you the news.
My heads been wet with the midnight dew.
I’ve been down on bended knee,
talkin’ to the man from Galilee.
He spoke to me in a voice so sweet,
I thought I heard the shuffle of angels’ feet.
He called my name and my heart stood still,
Dsus2 (let ring)
When He said “John go do my will”…

Repeat: 2nd Chorus, then 1st Chorus

Verse 2:
You may throw your rock, hide your hand,
workin’ in the dark against your fellow man.
But as sure as God made black and white,
What’s done in the dark, will be brought to the light.

Repeat: 1st Chorus, then 2nd Chorus

Oh I feel better all over more than anywheres else, baby
When Im out eith you
Well I feel better all over more than anywheres else,
When you kiss me like you do
Well Im as wild as a buck everytime ya calls me up
You sure makes me feel like a wheel
Oh I fell better all over more than anywheres else
Thats exactly how I feel

INSTRUMENTAL

Oh I feel better all over more than anywheres else,
When you whisper sweet nothins in my ear
Oh I feel better all over more than anywheres else
Anytime that youre near
Well my heart beats double time, when ya hold yer hand in

mine
You sure is a wonderful deal
I feel better all over, more than anywheres else
Thats exactly how I feel
Oh thats exactly how I feel

When Robert E. Lee surrended the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis was upset about it.
He said, how dare that man resent an order
Then somebody told him that General Lee had made the decision himself
In order to save lives because he felt that the battle comin’ up
Would cost about 20,000 lives on both sides.
And he said 240,000 dead already is enough.
So this song is not about the North or the South, but about the bloody brother war.
Brother against brother father against son, the war that nobody won.
And for all those lives that were saved, I gotta say, God Bless Robert E. Lee.

Well the mansion where the General used to live is burning down
Cottonfields are blue, with Sherman’s troops
I overheard a Yankee say yesterday Nashville fell
So I’m on my way, to join the fight General Lee might need my help.
But look away, look away Dixie, I don’t want them to see
What they’re doing to my Dixie, God Bless Robert E. Lee.

Riff:

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Sherman’s troops, burned Atlanta, and the flames lit up the sky
And those of us who survived it, are watchin’ my Dixie die.
But today, at Appamattox, General Lee sat down
And surrended to the Yankees and Ulysses S. Grant.
So look away look away Dixie, I don’t want them to see
What they’re doing to my Dixie, God Bless Robert E. Lee.

Riff:

I won’t ever stop loving you my Dixie, till they put me in the ground
And the last words they probably hear from me are God Bless Robert E. Lee

Riff: (Slowly, let ring)

KEY: Bb / CAPO: 1 / PLAY: A

INTRO: E A

VERSE:
I forgot to remember to forget her
I can’t seem to get her off my mind
I thought I’d never miss her but I found out somehow
I think about her almost all the time

CHORUS:
The day she went away I made myself a promise
That I’d soon forget we’d ever met
But somethin’ sure is wrong cause I’m so blue and lonely
I forgot to remember to forget

BREAK: A D A E A

CHORUS:
The day she went away I made myself a promise
That I’d soon forget we’d ever met
But somethin’ sure is wrong cause I’m so blue and lonely
I forgot to remember to forget

Key of G

To the governmental school
Well they’re goin’ to educate me
To the white men’s Golden Rule
And I’m learning very quickly
For I’ve learned to be ashamed
And I come when they call Billy
Though I’ve got an Indian name

CHORUS:
And there are drums beyond the mountain
Indian drums that you can’t hear
There are drums beyond the mountain
And they’re getting mighty near

And when they think that they’d changed me
Cut my hair to meet their needs
Will they think I’m white or Indian
Quarter blood or just half breed
Let me tell you Mister Teacher
When you say you’ll make me right
In five hundred years of fighting
Not one Indian turned white

CHORUS

Well you thought that I knew nothing
When you brought me here to school
Just another empty Indian
Just America’s first fool
But now I can tell you stories
That are burnt and dried and old
But in the shadow of their telling
Walks the thunder proud and bold

CHORUS

Long Pine and Sequoia
Handsome Lake and Sitting Bull
There’s Magnus Colorado
With his sleeves so red and full
Crazy Horse the legend
Those who bit off Custer’s soul
They are dead yet they are living
With the great Geronimo

CHORUS

Well you may teach me this land’s history
But we taught it to you first
We broke your hearts and bent your journeys
Broken treaties left us cursed
Even now you have to cheat us
Even though you this us tame
In our losing we found proudness
In your winning you found shame

CHORUS

Well he walked upon the Sea of Galilee
He walked upon the Sea of Galilee
Shouted far and wide He calmed the raging tide and
Walked upon the Sea of Galilee

He turned the water into wine (did my Lord now)
He turned the water into wine
In the little Cana town, the word went all around that
He turned the water into wine

He healed the leper and the lame
He healed the leper and the lame
He said go and tell no man
But they shouted it through the land that
He healed the leper and the lame

He turned the water into wine (did my Lord now)
He turned the water into wine
In the little Cana town, the word went all around that
He turned the water into wine

He fed the hungry multitude
He fed the hungry multitude
With a little bit of fish and bread
They said everyone was fed (5000)
He fed the hungry multitude

He turned the water into wine
He turned the water into wine (didn’t the carpenter from Nazareth)
In the little Cana town, the word went all around that
He turned the water into wine
He turned the water into wine