Face Of Despair chords by Johnny Cash

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse 1:

C                       G     G7                C
Fingers callus from the plough wrinkled weather beating brow
                 F
Streak of silver in the hair
C Am F G
mhmmmmmm
        C
face of despair

Verse 2:

C                       G
A back that's bent from years of toil
G7                 C
thorns grow in the worn out soil
               F
No one left to really care

C Am F G
mmmmmnhm
        C
face of despair

Verse 3:

                         Am                F               G
If you should plough old fields like these you'd plough up memories
C                       Am
Don't tell the young to mend their ways
D                   D7
you can't show them better days
C                     G         G7                    C
Their better days are yet ahead your better days have long been dead
                  F
Rest easy in your rocking chair
C   Am                   F         G
mhm and look out at your September country
        C
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Verse 4:

C               G
Shoulders weary from the load
G7                 C
life is rough as a gravel road
               F
How much of it can you bear
C   Am           F         G
mhm look at your September country
        C
face of despair

Verse 5:

C                G
In the September of your years
G7               C
eyes that hide a veil of tears
                  F
A look of longing always there
C Am F G
mhmmmmmmm
        C
face of despair

Verse 6:

                         Am                F               G
If you should plough old fields like these you'd plough up memories
C                       Am
Don't tell the young to mend their ways
D                   D7
you can't show them better days
C                     G         G7                    C
Their better days are yet ahead your better days have long been dead
                  F
Rest easy in your rocking chair
C Am                 F                 G
mhm and look at your September country mhmm
        C
Face of despair

mhmmmmm

Verse 7:

                         Am                F               G
If you should plough old fields like these you'd plough up memories
C                        Am
Don't tell the young to mend their ways
D                   D7
you can't show them better days
C                     G         G7                    C
Their better days are yet ahead your better days have long been dead
                  F
Rest easy in your rocking chair
C          Am               F                 G
mhm and what you're looking at now thats your september country
        C
Face of despair