HANK AND JOE AND ME
J.Cash
Recorded 3/12/59, Nashville, TN
Album: Songs Of Our Soil

Key: C# / Capo: 1st / Play: C

INTRO: C Am C Am C G C

VERSE:
C                      G
In the desert where we search for gold
C                    G
The days are hot the nights are cold
F                C
Hank and Joe and me walked on
G                     C
So bold and brave and free

For days and days we fought the heat
I got so thirsty and I got so weak
And when I fell cause I couldn't go
I heard Hank say to Joe

CHORUS:
C    G                        C
He's dying (dying, dying) for water
C        G                           C
Hear him crying (crying, crying) for water
C                         Am
We'll lay him down in the dust and sand
Am      C                   Am
He said Joe you know he's a dying man
C                   Am
Leave him there and let him die
C                G                C
I can't stand to hear him cry for water

VERSE:
I don't remember how long I lay 
But when I awoke it was the break of day
Buzzards circled miles ahead
I knew Hank and Joe were dead

My eyes were dim but I could see
A bed of gold nuggets under me
Now I know that it won't be long 
Till they decorate my bones

CHORUS:
Cause I'm dying (dying, dying) for water
Can't stop crying (crying, crying) for water
Well they laid me down in the dust and sand
He said Joe you know he's a dying man
Leave him there and let him die
I can't stand to hear him cry for water
C                      G               C
They couldn't stand to hear me cry for water