My Name Is John Johanna - Ver 2

D G D D G D D G D D G A7 D D G D My name is John Johanna, I came from Buffalo town D G D For nine long years I've traveled this wide, wide world around D G D Through ups and downs and miseries, and some good days I saw D G A7 D But I never knew what misery was 'til I went to Arkansas D G D I went up to the station, the operator to find D G D Told him my situation and where I wanted to ride D G D Said, "Hand me down five dollars, lad, a ticket you shall draw D G A7 D That'll land you safe by railway in the state of Arkansas" D G D I rode up to the station and chanced to meet a friend D G D Alan Catcher was his name although they called him Cain D G D His hair hung down in rat tails below his under-jaw D G A7 D He said he run the best hotel in the state of Arkansas D G D I followed my companion to his respective place D G D Saw pity and starvation was pictured on his face D G D His bread was old corn dodgers, his beef I could not chaw D G A7 D He charged me fifty cents a day in the state of Arkansas *Whistling* D G D D G D D G D D G A7 D D G D I got up that next morning to catch that early train D G D He says, "Don't be in a hurry, lad, I have some land to drain D G D You'll get your fifty cents a day and all that you can chaw D G A7 D You'll find yourself a different lad when you leave old Arkansas" D G D I worked six weeks for the son of a gun, Alan Catcher was his name D G D He stood seven feet two inches, as tall as any crane D G D I got so thin on sassafras tea, I could hide behind a straw D G A7 D You bet I was a different lad when I left old Arkansas D G D Farewell, you old swamp rabbits, also you dodger pills D G D Likewise you walking skeletons, you old sassafras eels D G D If you ever see my face again, I'd hand you down my paw D G A7 D I'd be looking through a telescope from home to Arkansas D G D D G D D G D D G A7 D