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My Name Is John Johanna Chords by Kelly Harrell

My Name Is John Johanna chords by Kelly Harrell

Guitar chords with lyrics

  • Difficulty: Beginner 👶
Key: DIntro:

D       G      D
D       G      D
D       G      D
D       G  A7  DVerse 1:
D                                    G       D
My name is John Johanna
I came from Buffalo town
D                                                 G      D
For nine long years I've traveled this wide, wide world around
D                                                 G      D
Through ups and downs and miseries, and some good days I saw
D                                       G       A7   D
But I never knew what misery was 'til I went to Arkansas
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Verse 2:
D                                G        D
I went up to the station, the operator to find
D                                 G         D
Told him my situation and where I wanted to ride
D                                               G         D
Said, "Hand me down five dollars, lad, a ticket you shall draw
D                                       G       A7   D
That'll land you safe by railway in the state of Arkansas"

♫ Verse 3:
D                                       G      D
I rode up to the station and chanced to meet a friend
D                                       G          D
Alan Catcher was his name although they called him Cain
D                                         G     D
His hair hung down in rat tails below his under-jaw
D                                    G       A7   D
He said he run the best hotel in the state of Arkansas

♫ Verse 4:
D                                G        D
I followed my companion to his respective place
D                                    G      D
Saw pity and starvation was pictured on his face
D                                          G         D
His bread was old corn dodgers, his beef I could not chaw
D                                      G       A7   D
He charged me fifty cents a day in the state of Arkansas

♫ Break:
*Whistling*
D       G      D
D       G      D
D       G      D
D       G  A7  DVerse 5:
D                                        G     D
I got up that next morning to catch that early train
D                                               G       D
He says, "Don't be in a hurry, lad
I have some land to drain
D                                              G       D
You'll get your fifty cents a day and all that you can chaw
D                                             G        A7   D
You'll find yourself a different lad when you leave old Arkansas"

♫ Verse 6:
D                                                     G       D
I worked six weeks for the son of a gun
Alan Catcher was his name
D                                          G   D
He stood seven feet two inches, as tall as any crane
D                                              G      D
I got so thin on sassafras tea
I could hide behind a straw
D                                    G       A7   D
You bet I was a different lad when I left old Arkansas

♫ Verse 7:
D                                         G      D
Farewell, you old swamp rabbits, also you dodger pills
D                                       G         D
Likewise you walking skeletons, you old sassafras eels
D                                           G       D
If you ever see my face again
I'd hand you down my paw
D                                       G       A7   D
I'd be looking through a telescope from home to Arkansas

♫ Outro:
D       G      D
D       G      D
D       G      D
D       G  A7  D

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