Mister Garfield Lyrics - Johnny Cash

Me and my brother was down close to the depot 

When I heard the report of a pistol 

I hollered, "I wonder what was that!" 

He run out and come back and he said 

"That was a report of a pistol" 

And I thought I was gonna faint when he said it 

"Mr. Garfield's been shot down, shot down, shot down 

Mr. Garfield's been shot down low" 

Lord, I knew the President was supposed to be down the depot that day 

But I just wouldn't let myself believe that he'd been shot 

Me and my bother run out there and everybody was all confused 

And hollering' and running' round 

And I stepped up to this one lady and I said that 

"Ma'am what was it really that happened Ma'am?", and she said that 

"Mr. Garfield's been shot down, shot down, shot down 

Mr. Garfield's been shot down low" 

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Well, it looked like everybody felt just about as bad as I did 

Everybody started drift off to home 

Me and my brother did too 

Then a few weeks later, I heard that the President was still alive 

So I told my brother, I said, "Hey let's get on a train 

And go to that Big House up there and see how the President is" 

"Let's go up there to where he's laid up hurt and sick we'd see him" 

So we went on up there and that big White House 

And there was a soldier boy standin' round upside, outside 

And, I sidled up to him and I said to that soldier boy 

I said "Who was it that did it? 

Who was it that shot the President?" 

And he said that, "It was Charlie Guiteau that shot Mr. Garfield" 

And I said, "Charlie Guiteau done shot down a good man, good man 

Charlie Guiteau done shot down a good man low 

Charlie Guiteau done shot down a good man, good man" 

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That soldier boy said that 

Miss Lucretia Garfield was always at his bedside 

In the heat of the day fannin' him when he was hot 

And he said just that mornin' that he had been at the window 

And he'd overheard Miss Lucretia and Mr. Garfield talkin' 

And Mr Garfield said, "Crete, honey", he called her Crete 

He said, "Crete, honey, if somethin' worse would happens to me" 

He said, "You get yourself a good man" 

And she said, "Now James", she called him James 

She said, "James, I won't hear to that now 

'Cause I love you too much" 

And he said that "You'll make some good man a good wife, good wife 

You'll make some man a good wife gal 

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 little while later, we come back around there 

And things have changed 

The flag was hangin' halfway up the flagpole 

And everybody was cryin' and standin' 'round sad 

And I walked back up to this soldier boy and I said 

"Soldier boy, is he, is Mr Garfield?" and he said, "Yeah, he's gone" 

Gonna lay him by that cold lonesome branch down low 

Mr. Garfield's been shot down low 

Oh, Mr. Garfield's been shot down, shot down, shot down 

Mr. Garfield's been shot down low 

Have you heard the news? 

Mr. Garfield's been shot down, shot down, shot down 

Mr. Garfield's been shot down low, Lord