John Henry Bosworth
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John Henry Bosworth
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John Henry Bosworth,
Asus
late in sixty
A
eight,
De
C
cided that the
C2
time had come to
C
settle his est
G
ate.
The riots of the summer were
Asus
creeping into
A
fall,
So he
C
packed his family
C2
in the car and
C
chose to leave it
G
all.
Bm/add-G
Out on the open road with his
Am
elbow in the b
G
reeze,
He pulled his woman to him and he
D7
gave her heart a s
G
queeze.
Chorus:
With a
G
song that
C/G-bass
he'd been s
G7
inging
C/G-bass
,
As they
G
waved to the
C/G-bass
people that they
G7
passed,
C/G-bass
All al
G
ong the highway they went
G7
winging
C/G-bass
G
Headed for their
D7
paradise at
C/G-bass
last.
John Henry Bosworth's family on the farm,
Elizabeth is sitting, knitting from a ball of yar.
Koolaid's in the kitchen, Button's up in her bed,
And John he takes a long pull on his pipe and lays his head
Back in the easy chair, with the Good Book in his hand,
He closed his eyes and thanked the Lord for making him a lucky man.
Chorus.
John Henry Bosworth, nineteen eighty four,
The city's dead, the sky is red and there's a knock upon the door.
Every piece of Scripture and every prayer he prayed
Had brought him to this moment of this particular day.
"Open the doors," he cried, "Let the brothres and sisters inside,
I've got everything to give now and nothing left to hide."
Chorus.
And I was wondering
C/G-bass
if you had b
G7
een to the
C/G-bass
mountain,
G
To look at the
C/G-bass
valley belo
G
w?
Did you see all the
C/G-bass
roads tangled d
G7
own in the
C/G-bass
valley,
G
Did you
C/G-bass
know which way to
G
go?
Mm, the
C
mou
C/B-bass
ntain str
Am
eam
C/G-bass
runs pur
D7
e and c
G
lear
And I
C
wish
C/B-bass
to my s
Am7
oul I
C/G-bass
could al
D7
ways be h
G
ere.
But there's a reason for li
C/G-bass
ving way
G7
down in the v
C/G-bass
alley
That
G
only the mo
D7
untain
C
knows.
G/B-bass
C
G
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#Submitted to the ftp.nevada.edu:/pub/guitar archives
#by Steve Putz <putz@parc.xerox.com>
#7 September 1992
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