Face Of Despair chords by Johnny Cash

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:

C majorC            G+G   G7G7        C majorC
Fingers callus from the plough wrinkled weather beating brow
         FF
Streak of silver in the hair
C majorC A minorAm FF G+G
mhmmmmmm
    C majorC
face of despair

Verse 2:

C majorC            G+G
A augmentedA back that's bent from years of toil
G7G7         C majorC
thorns grow in the worn out soil
        FF
No one left to really care

C majorC A minorAm FF G+G
mmmmmnhm
    C majorC
face of despair

Verse 3:

             A minorAm        FF        G+G
If you should plough old fields like these you'd plough up memories
C majorC            A minorAm
Don't tell the young to mend their ways
D MajorD          D7D7
you can't show them better days
C majorC           G+G     G7G7          C majorC
Their better days are yet ahead your better days have long been dead
         FF
Rest easy in your rocking chair
C majorC  A minorAm          FF     G+G
mhm and look out at your September country
    C majorC
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Verse 4:

C majorC        G+G
Shoulders weary from the load
G7G7         C majorC
life is rough as a gravel road
        FF
How much of it can you bear
C majorC  A minorAm      FF     G+G
mhm look at your September country
    C majorC
face of despair

Verse 5:

C majorC        G+G
In the September of your years
G7G7        C majorC
eyes that hide a veil of tears
         FF
A augmentedA look of longing always there
C majorC A minorAm FF G+G
mhmmmmmmm
    C majorC
face of despair

Verse 6:

             A minorAm        FF        G+G
If you should plough old fields like these you'd plough up memories
C majorC            A minorAm
Don't tell the young to mend their ways
D MajorD          D7D7
you can't show them better days
C majorC           G+G     G7G7          C majorC
Their better days are yet ahead your better days have long been dead
         FF
Rest easy in your rocking chair
C majorC A minorAm         FF         G+G
mhm and look at your September country mhmm
    C majorC
Face of despair

mhmmmmm

Verse 7:

             A minorAm        FF        G+G
If you should plough old fields like these you'd plough up memories
C majorC            A minorAm
Don't tell the young to mend their ways
D MajorD          D7D7
you can't show them better days
C majorC           G+G     G7G7          C majorC
Their better days are yet ahead your better days have long been dead
         FF
Rest easy in your rocking chair
C majorC     A minorAm        FF         G+G
mhm and what you're looking at now thats your september country
    C majorC
Face of despair