My Name Is John Johanna chords by Kelly Harrell

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: D MajorD

♫ Intro:

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♫ Verse 1:
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My name is John Johanna
I came from Buffalo town
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For nine long years I've traveled this wide, wide world around
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Through ups and downs and miseries, and some good days I saw
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But I never knew what misery was 'til I went to Arkansas

♫ Verse 2:
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I went up to the station, the operator to find
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Told him my situation and where I wanted to ride
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Said, "Hand me down five dollars, lad, a ticket you shall draw
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That'll land you safe by railway in the state of Arkansas"

♫ Verse 3:
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I rode up to the station and chanced to meet a friend
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Alan Catcher was his name although they called him Cain
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His hair hung down in rat tails below his under-jaw
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He said he run the best hotel in the state of Arkansas

♫ Verse 4:
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I followed my companion to his respective place
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Saw pity and starvation was pictured on his face
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His bread was old corn dodgers, his beef I could not chaw
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He charged me fifty cents a day in the state of Arkansas

♫ Break:
*Whistling*
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♫ Verse 5:
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I got up that next morning to catch that early train
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He says, "Don't be in a hurry, lad
I have some land to drain
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You'll get your fifty cents a day and all that you can chaw
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You'll find yourself a different lad when you leave old Arkansas"

♫ Verse 6:
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I worked six weeks for the son of a gun
Alan Catcher was his name
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He stood seven feet two inches, as tall as any crane
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I got so thin on sassafras tea
I could hide behind a straw
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You bet I was a different lad when I left old Arkansas

♫ Verse 7:
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Farewell, you old swamp rabbits, also you dodger pills
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Likewise you walking skeletons, you old sassafras eels
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If you ever see my face again
I'd hand you down my paw
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I'd be looking through a telescope from home to Arkansas

♫ Outro:
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