Chords for Johnny Cash 'Cisco Clifton's Filling Station' original version (1967) - RARE!.mp4

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Cisco [E] Clifton had a filling [G] station about a mile and a half from town.
Most cars passed unless they were out of gas, so Cisco was always around.
Regular gas was all that he sold except [C] tobacco, matches, and oil.
Other than that, he fixed lots of flasks, keeping Cisco's [G] rough hands soiled.
He'd wipe the glass and check the air, [D] and a hundred times a day,
he patiently [G] gave directions on how to get to the state highway.
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Usually he'd give them water or a tire [A] or two some air,
[G] and once a big black Cadillac spent seven dollars there.
[D] He'd give anybody anything they'd ask and lend anything [G] he had.
His tools or tires, bumper jacks or wire, were [C] the good ones or the bad.
In wintertime, there was a depot stove and [G] a table for the checker game,
and every morning at sunup, the same checker players came.
_ _ So Cisco Clifton's filling station was always in the red.
Personal loans were personally gone, but never a word was said.
One morning at eight, the checker players heard a big bulldozer roar like a freight,
and Cisco said, I hope my kids stay fed when they build that interstate.
He'd managed to pay for the [C] property where his little filling station sat,
and friends still [G] came for the checker game, so Cisco settled for that.
He wouldn't say so, but Cisco knew [D] the interstate was too much to fight.
[G] But to keep his will and to pay his bills, he did [C] odd jobs at night.
He still opened up at sunrise, and the [G] checker game went on.
The cars flew past on high-pass [D] gas, and the neighbors had sold out and gone.
If a car ever did [G] go by, he was lost, and if they stopped, they were treated the [C] same.
So at Cisco Clifton's filling station, [G] there's a howdy and a checker [D] game. _ _
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