JOHNNY & ME

Johnny & Me
© 2006 Bo Lozoff
C# 4/4

I was born with a voice as deep as a well, ‘n from the time I was little anybody could tell
that I loved music more than just about anything.
I grew up on Elvis, Jerry Lee and Ray and I’d play their records every day,
But everybody’d laugh whenever I tried to sing.
Give it up, bud, you give us the creeps, you can’t sing along with a voice that deep,
Yeah, they teased me and talked all kinds of trash.
Then one day I heard the voice that changed my life, that made my choice,
And it sounded something like this: Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.
Bb I keep a close watch on this heart of mine….C#
Well, Johnny and me got along just fine and I made nearly all of his songs mine,
I even had a crush on June from the time I was ten.
When I was sixteen and dating girls, you should’ve seen their young heads whirl
When I’d look into their eyes and sing to them:
G# Love is a burning thing…C#
For a little while I was a stupid kid and I’m not proud of the crimes I did,
Once they threw me in jail for stealing a car.
Them cons looked like they’d eat me alive and I didn’t have a gun, didn’t have a knife,
but from the corner I grabbed a beat up old guitar.
F I hear that train a’comin’, it’s rolling around the bend… C#
So this voice has gotten me girls and saved my life, sung my kid to sleep, serenaded my wife,
‘n people even return my calls in a flash.
Now I write most of my own songs, but everywhere I play it isn’t long before somebody says
“hey, can you sing Johnny Cash?” and I say….
Bb Man in Black, end with tag: I’ll try to carry on ol’ Johnny’s songs when I am asked; I’m proud to say: Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.