Johnny Cash - "Flesh And Blood (CRD)"

Flesh And Blood

E A D
If we leave here today
A D
we could be a thousand miles away
A E D E
Take to that road see how far it goes
A D
And on that great ocean road
A D
Oh the country's in our bones
A E
All the trouble that you know
D E
empties out as you go

Chorus:
A E
Oh come on walk with me, talk with me,
A D
tell me your stories
A E F#m D
I'll do my best to understand you
A D
You're flesh and blood, flesh and blood
A D
Don't refuse me your love
A Amaj7
More than words can express
D E
More than wealth or success

A D
Oh there's a thousand things to do
A D
So let's start here with me and you
A Amaj7
All the pain that you feel
D (Bm7) (D)
All the hurt that seems so real
A E
Oh come on walk with me, talk with me,
A D
tell me your stories
A E F#m D
I'll do my very best to understand you
A
You're flesh and blood

Break

C Em C G
You can't go on holding back

the flooding river
C G
Keeping all that fear inside
Bm d
I understand how trouble haunts you
B E
Yes and 1 do know how you feel

A D
There's a thousand things to do
A D
So let's start here with me and you
A Amaj7
Gonna take a little time
D
Let's see what we can find

Oh come on walk with me.... .

Free As Stone

F
Phone calls and taxi rides
Bb C
somebody's leaving
F Bb C
Misunderstandings get out of control
F Dm
The right words get left
Bb C
The wrong words get spoken
F
She's gone
C F
But not your pride

Look at you now
You're a picture of sorrow
Head in your hands
Complete isolation
All of the things that seemed so important
are leaves
And are blowing away

Not much can hurt
the fool heart hat's breaking
You can't find the words
You can't hide the feelings
It's down to the bone
To the heart of the matter
You're free
Free as stone

Walking through Belfast
on a cold Sunday morning
Young soldiers in their uniforms
guns in their hands
In a world all cut up
with barbed wire fences
I'm free
I'm free as stone

hope you can use these, I've also worked out a number of songs of the debut
album by "The Ranch" a US based band featuring Aussie singer Keith Urban,
will send these along when I get time to type them up.

All the best

Mark Finlayson

1 Comments

  • Michael Koebnick

    The lyrics are incorrect for Johnny Cash's version. Please refer to these lyrics instead: Beside a singing mountain stream Where the willow grew Where the silver leaf of maple Sparkled in the morning dew I braided twigs of willows Made a string of buckeye beads But flesh and blood needs flesh And blood And you're the one I need Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood And you're the one I need I leaned against a bark of birch And I breathed the honey dew I saw a North-bound flock of geese Against a sky of baby blue Beside the lily pads I carved a whistle from a reed Mother Nature's quite a lady But you're the one I need Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood And you're the one I need. A cardinal sang just for me And I thanked him for the song Then the sun went slowly down the west And I had to move along These were some of the things On which my mind and spirit feed But flesh and blood need flesh and blood And you're the one I need Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood And you're the one I need. So when this day was ended I was still not satisfied For I knew everything I touched Would wither and would die And love is all that will remain And grow from all these seeds Mother Nature's quite a lady But you're the one I need Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood And you're the one I need.