For You 4/4 Johnny Cash with Dave Matthews From We Were Soldiers
Standard Tuning
Intro: 12 bars - first 4 drums only
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- I will drink the / cup, /
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- The poison over - / flowing, /
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- I will lift you / up, /
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- Watch over where you're / going, /
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- The first one in, / - the last one gone, /
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- I'll be the rock to / stand upon,
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For / you - / ou , for / you - / ou, /
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- My spirit / aches, / and
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I can't / stop this river / flowing, / - and
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Here I / take,
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- Each labored / breath I draw un - / knowing, /
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- That this could be my life / - my final hour,
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But / faith and hope and love give / me the power.
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For / you - / ou, for / you - / ou, /
(SPOKEN)
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- - - Yea though I / walk through the valley,
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- Of the shadow of / death, I will fear no / evil,
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- For You are / with me, / / - - You are with me. /
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- I'll be / your salv - / ation, /
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- Though the storms sur- / round me, /
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- There under / no conditions, /
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- Lay my body / down,
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- In the / wake will abandon,
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- Willing sacri - / fice.
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- I'll walk / through the / canyon,
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- Bring the shadows / light, /
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For / you - / ou , for / you - / ou, /
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- I will drink the / cup, /
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- The poison over - / flowing, /
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- I will lift you / up, /
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- Watch over where you're / going, /
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- The first one in, / - the last one gone, /
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- I'll be the rock to / stand upon, /
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- The first one in, / - the last one gone, /
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- I'll be the rock / - to stand upon, /
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For / you - / ou , for / you - / ou, /
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For / you - / ou , / for / you, - / ou. /
(Drop an octave)
/ C /
For / you - / ou.
Fade