Chords for Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard - Missing Ol' Johnny Cash (Official Video)

[Gb] _ [A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [A] _ [Em] Johnny Cash and Merle, their history goes back.
I think the first time Merle saw Johnny Cash,
he was an inmate in one of the prison shows that Cash [Ab] played,
and they were friends all the way up to [A] the end.
Now Johnny Cash, Tennessee [D] too,
Seem to know [Am] what to do.
[A] Made a sound that took a view into [Em] me.
[E] Had it [Em] worn, made the tenor.
Merle has been telling me about this song,
Missing Old Johnny Cash.
It came about during the time we were trying to put this album together,
and I ran it by Willie on the phone, he liked [D] it.
Jacob [Gm] Lin's got it ready [E] to make it [Gb] splashy.
[A] Missing Old Johnny Cash.
[C] He just had the lyric, [Am] and he created the arrangement on the spot.
Then here's the one chord we ad [Em]-libbed,
talking [E] about different shit that he did.
[Bm] Yeah, okay, so we just [Am] play it.
I got one on one, but we're playing that through.
And I guess the name of it was Johnny Cash?
[Gbm] Missing Old Johnny Cash.
[C] It was just some [E] words [Am] that I had some chords to,
really not a melody to it, it's kind of rapping.
How about the great harmonica player,
[A] playing on that.
Yeah, I _ thought I'd do some like trance,
just rhythm thing at the end, coming in the last,
[E] [B] That's nice, I love that.
Johnny played a little harmonica, so.
Yeah, I thought you played two at a time.
[Eb] Yeah. _
[Bbm] That's gonna be great.
Yeah, that's a very [Cm] cool tune.
[Bb] Well Johnny Cash was a friend of mine,
[Eb] knew him well for a mighty long [Bb] time,
shared the stage, I'm in his show,
[F] broke [Cm] my heart to see [Bb] him go,
Cash had the fire of a thousand men,
[Eb] love and life [G] was his greatest [Bb] sin,
treated his fans like the next of [Fm] kin,
[F] rappin' a bit, talkin' trash,
[Bb] missing old Johnny Cash.
_ _ _ _ _ Well now Johnny Cash wore a black attire,
[Eb] then he fell into that ring of fire,
[Bb] he came up swingin' like a boy in a suit,
[F] he married June Carter and he fired two,
[Bb] he wrote his songs from deep within,
[Eb] he hit the stage with a crooked grin,
[Bb] he and I were both [Bbm] highwaymen,
and [F] that record became a smash,
well [Bb] I'm missin' old Johnny Cash.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I did really too, that him and Roy Nichols,
and Rose Maddox, and people who wrote the hot dogs
on the back of the limousine were ice cream sticks.
_ Well, Willie, do you know anything about Cash?
I _ _ _ know a couple of good stories I'll put in there.
_ So I walked up to him when he was young,
I asked, talking to him a little bit,
I said, you guys really had a lot of fun in the old days,
we don't have that much fun anymore,
and [Am] Cash said, well fuck you, don't do [C] nothin'. [A] LAUGHTER _ _ _ _ _ _ _