Let Him Roll

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Let Him Roll with Johnny Cash
[Intro]
D G A D
D G
Let him roll, boys let him roll
A D
I bet he's gone to Dallas Rest his soul
D
Now He was a wino, tried and true
G
Done about everything there is to do
A
He worked on freighters, he worked in bars
D
He worked on farms, 'n he worked on cars
D
Now it was white port whine, that put that look in his eye
G
That grown men get when they need to cry
A
And we sat down on the curb to rest
D
And his head just fell down on his chest
D
He said "Every single day it gets
G
just a little bit harder to handle and yet..."
A
Then he lost the thread and his mind got cluttered
D
The words just rolled off down in the gutter
D
He was a elevator man in a cheap hotel
G
In exchange for the rent on a one room cell
A
And he's years old before his time
D
No thanks to the world, and the white Port wine
D
And he said "Son", he always called me son
G
He said, "Life for you has just begun"
A
And then he told me the story that I heard before
D
How he fell in love with a Dallas whore
D
He could cut through the years to the very night
G
That it all ended, in a whore house fight
A
And she turned his last proposal down
D
In favor of being a girl about town
D
Now it's been seventeen years right in line
G
And he ain't been straight none of the time
A
It's too many years of fightin' the weather
D
And too many nights of not being together
D
So he died...
D G
Let him roll, boys let him roll
A D
I bet he's gone to Dallas Rest his soul
G
Let him roll, boys let him roll
A
He always thought that heaven
G D
was just a Dallas whore
D
When they went through his personal affects
G
In among the stubs from the welfare checks
A
Was a crumblin' picture of a girl in a door
D
An address in Dallas, and nothin' more
D
Well the welfare people provided the priest
G
And a couple from the mission down the street
A
Sang Amasing Grace, and nobody cried
D
'Cept some lady in black way off to the side
D
We all left and she's standing there
G
The black veil covering her silver hair
A
And One-Eyed John said her name was Alice
D
She used to be a whore in Dallas
D G
Let him roll, boys let him roll
A D
I bet he's gone to Dallas Rest his soul
G
Let him roll, boys let him roll
A
He always thought that heaven
G D
was just a Dallas whore
D G A D
Let him roll, boys let him roll

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Let Him Roll with Johnny Cash
[Intro]
D G A D

Let Him Roll Chords by Johnny Cash

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