Mister Garfield - Johnny Cash (约翰尼·卡什)

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