Understand Your Man

Understand Your Man Johnny Cash

Intro:

| C | C | Am | Am |

| F | G | C | C |

C Am

Don't call my name out your window when you're leavin';

F G7

I won't even turn my head.

C Am

Don't send your kinfolks to give me no talkin';

D7 G7

I'll be gone like I said.

C

You would say the same old thing that you'd been sayin' all the long.

F

Lay there in your bed and keep your mouth shut till I'm gone.

C Am

Don't give me that old familiar cry and cuss and moan;

F G C Am

Under-stand your man. I'm tired of your bad-mouthin'.

F G C

Under-stand your man.

Dobro Solo:

| C | C | Am | Am |

| F | G | G7 | G7 |

| C | C | Am | Am |

| D7 | D7 | G | G |

| C | C | C | C |

| F | F | F | F |

| C | C | Am | Am |

| F | G | C | C |

G Am

You can give my other suit to the Salvation Army,

F G7

And ev'rything else I leave be-hind.

C Am

I ain't talkin' nothin' that'll slow down my trav'lin',

D7 G7

While I'm untanglin' my mind.

C

I ain't gonna repeat what I said anymore,

F

While I'm breathin' air that ain't been breathed before.

C Am

I'll be as gone as a wild goose in winter;

F G C

Then you'll under-stand your man.

Outro:

Am F G C

Medi-tate on it. Under-stand your man.

Am F G C

You hear me talk-in', honey? Under-stand your man.

Am F G C

'Member what I told ya. Under-stand your man.

F G C

Under-stand your man. (Fade out)