《Mister Garfield》是Johnny Cash演唱的歌曲，收錄於1965年發行的專輯《Johnny Cash Sings The Ballads Of The True West》。
基本介紹
- 外文名：Mister Garfield
- 所屬專輯：Johnny Cash Sings The Ballads Of The True West
- 歌曲原唱：Johnny Cash
- 發行日期：1965年9月1日
歌曲歌詞
Mr Garfield been shot down
Shot down shot down
Mr Garfield been shot down low
Me and my brother
Was down close to the depot
When I heard the report of a pistol
My brother run out and come back in all excited
And I said "What was it " and he said
"It was the report of a pistol" and then he said
Mr Garfield been shot down
Shot down shot down
Mr Garfield been shot down low
Lord I knew the President
Was supposed to be at the depot that day
And we just wouldn't believe that he's shot
But we'd run over there
And there was so many folks around
That we couldn't see him
But some lady was standin' there cryin'
And I said "Ma'am what was it that happened Ma'am "
And she said
Mr Garfield been shot down
Shot down shot down
Mr Garfield been shot down low
Well everybody drifted off
Toward home finally
And they looked like they felt
About as bad as I did
But in a few weeks I heard
That the President was still alive
And I told my brother I said
Let's get on that train
And go to where he's laid up hurt
Well when we got to his big house
Up there I asked the fellow
I said Who was it that did it
Who was it that shoot the President
And he said It was Charlie Guiteau
That shoot Mr Garfield and I said
Charlie Guiteau done shot down
A good man good man
Charlie Guiteau done shot down a good man low
I heard some fellow there
That had been in the house to see the President
And I sidled up him to listen to what
He was tellin' and he said
Mrs Lucretia Garfield was always at his side
In the heat of the day fannin' him when he was hot
He said that just that day
The President said to Mrs Lucretia
He said Crete honey
(He called her Crete)
Said If somethin' worse happens to me
After awhile you get yourself a good man
And Mrs Lucretia said "James"
(She called him James)
She said "I won't hear to that now"
She said "I love you too much" but he said
You'll make some good man a good wife good wife
You'll make some man a good good good wife
Don't pull in single harness all your life good gal
Don't pull in single harness all your life
That's what he said "Don't pull in single harness all your life"
Well a few days later I come back
To where the President was restin'
And it seems everybody was cryin'
The flag was hangin' halfway up
To the flagpole in front of the house
And everybody looked so sad
And I asked a soldier boy there
And I said "Is is is Mr Garfield "
And he said Yeah he's gone
Gonna lay him in that
Cold lonesome ground down low
Gonna lay him in that
Cold lonesome ground
Well they laid the President
By that long cold branch
Mr Garfield's been laid down low
Mr Garfield has been shot down
Mr Garfield's been shot
Mr Garfield been shot down
Shot down shot down
Mr Garfield been shot down low
