Chords for Johhny Cash & June Carter: The Loving Gift

[Bb] _ [Dm] [F] We've got a lot of fine songs [Eb] on the show, a lot of fine singers.
[Bb]
I've enjoyed
singing with a lot of them.
[D] But you know the person I [Eb] really enjoy singing a love
[A] song with?
[Bb] It's my wife, [F] June Carter.
[Bb] _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ You gave [F] me a blanket [Eb] to keep me [Bb] from the cold.
[Eb] And you gave me [F] a song I [Bb] learned to sing.
_ Honey you showed me [F] some beauty [Eb] through the windows [Bb] of your soul.
[Eb] And you showed me [F] a
world I've [Bb] never seen.
[Eb] Each given to the other, loving, giving, [Bb] giving away.
[Eb] We spent the
[Bb] precious time we [F] knew was borrowed.
_ [Bb] Cause you gave [F] me the courage [Eb] to live with [Bb] yesterday.
_ [F] And you gave me [Bb] tomorrow.
_ You gave [F] me a candle [Eb] to light [Bb] my way to bed.
[Eb] And you [F] erased the
shadows [Bb] I've been seeing.
_ You brought [F] me a pillow [Eb] to rest my [Bb] weary head.
[Eb] And you taught
[F] me a gentle [Bb] way of dreaming.
_ [Eb] And even [F] if you leave me [Eb] I'll be richer [Bb] when you go.
[Eb] Just
living [Bb] with the loving [F] gifts you gave me.
[Bb] Cause you gave [F] me a blanket [Eb] to keep [Bb] me from
the cold.
[Gm] _ [F]
And you gave me [Bb] a baby.
_ Yeah. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [N] Yeah _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
but _ it hadn't all been smooth sailing.
There'd
been some rough rocky roads.
We walked a warm beach in Florida with sand in our pockets
to [Eb] moisturize.
_ [F] Walked the cold streets in New York with two guitars and ten cups [Bb] just for
dives.
We spent a winter in Winnipeg and a summer in [Eb] Mississippi, son.
Had [F] some trouble once in
Fargo, some bad times in Amarillo, but we [Bb] had fun.
_ _ And we wouldn't [G] trade it all for [Cm] the world
and all its gold.
It's [F] the past that makes the future worth [Bb] living.
The Lord's [G] been good to us
and [Cm] we will praise him in our songs.
[F] For the good times and the good things he [Bb] has given.
We made
the papers once in Phoenix when we stopped and tried to break [Eb] up a vow.
And we [F] hit Keno and Reno.
Lost it all in Vegas the very [Bb] next [Gm] night.
[Bb] We hopped a train in [Gm] Chicago and skinny [Bb] dipped in San
[Eb] [Cm] Francisco's bay.
[Eb] [F] We checked into all the big hotels and used the fire escape [Bb] to get away.
But we
wouldn't [G] trade it all [Cm] for the world and all its gold.
[F] It's the past that makes the future [Bb] worth
living.
The Lord's been good [G] to us [Cm] and we will praise him in our songs.
[F] For the good times and the good
things [Bb] he has given.
Well I flew into Kansas City early April 29th [Eb] without a plane.
And we got
[F] stranded in a snowstorm with some girls from Salt Lake City [Bb] on a train.
And I spent a week one night
in L.A. looking for a doctor on [Eb] the strip.
And [F] I wound up somewhere near Nashville, p'jum songs and waiting
tables [Bb] for a tip.
_ And we wouldn't [G] trade it [Cm] all for the world and all its gold.
It's [F] the past that makes the
[Bb] future worth living.
The Lord's been [G] good to us and we [Cm] will praise him in our songs.
[F] For the good times and the good
[Bb] things he has given.
For [F] the good times and the good things he [Bb] has given. _ _ _
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