The Wanderer.

I tried my best to convert this great Johnny Cash song to diatonic in key of C!!  If you have any questions or modifications, please send me a message!  


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I   went out wan-der-ing,

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Through the streets paved with gold

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Lif-ted some stones,

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saw the skin and bones,

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Of a city with-out a soul

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I   went out wan-der-ing,

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Un-der an a-tomic sky,

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Where the ground won't turn,

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And the rain it burns,

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Like the tears when I said good-bye

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Yeah, I went with no-thing,

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Nothing but the thought of you

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I went wan-dering

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I went drif-ting

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Through the capitals of tin

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Where men can't walk,

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Or free-ly talk,

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And sons turn their fathers in,

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I stopped outside a church house,

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Where the citizens like to sit

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They say they want the king-dom,

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But they don't want God in it

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I went out ri-ding,

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Down that old eight lane,

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I passed by a thousand signs,

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Looking for my own name,

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I went with no-thing,

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But the thought you'd be there too,

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Looking for you

~~guitar solo~~

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I went out,

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In search of experience

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To taste and to touch,

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And to feel as much,

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As a man can 

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Before he repents

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I went out searching

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Looking for one good man

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A spi-rit who would not bend or break

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Who would sit at his father's right hand

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I went out walk-ing

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With a bible and a gun

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The word of God lay hea-vy in my heart,

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I was sure I was the one,

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Now Je-sus, don't you wait up,

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Je-sus, I'll be home soon,

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Yeah, I went out for the papers,

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Told her I'd be back by noon,

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Yeah, I left with no-thing

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But the thought you'd be there too

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Looking for you

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Yeah, I left with no-thing,

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Nothing but the thought of you,

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I went wan-dering