Face of Despair
Fingers callus from the plough
Wrinkled weather beatin' brow
Streak of silver in the hair, mhmm
Face of despair
A back that's bent from years of toil
Thorns grow in the worn out soil
No one left to really care, mhmm
Face of despair
If you should plough old fields like these
You'd plough up memories
Don't tell the young to mend their ways
You can't show them better days
Their better days are yet ahead
Your better days have long been dead
Rest easy in your rocking chair, mhm
And look at your September country
Face of despair
Shoulders weary from the load
Life is rough as a gravel road
How much of it can you bear, mhmm
Look at your September country
Face of despair
In the September of your years
Eyes that hide a veil of tears
A look of longing always there, mhmm
Face of despair
If you should plough old fields like these
You'd plough up memories
Don't tell the young to mend their ways
You can't show them better days
Their better days are yet ahead
Your better days have long been dead
Rest easy in your rocking chair, mhmm
And look at your September country
Mhm, face of despair, mhmm
If you should plough old fields like these
You'd plough up memories
Don't tell the young to mend their ways
You can't show them better days
Their better days are yet ahead
Your better days have long been dead
Rest easy in your rocking chair mhm
What are you looking at now?
That's your September country
Face of despair
Fingers callus from the plough
Wrinkled weather beatin' brow
Streak of silver in the hair, mhmm
Face of despair, mhmm
Wrinkled weather beatin' brow
Streak of silver in the hair, mhmm
Face of despair
A back that's bent from years of toil
Thorns grow in the worn out soil
No one left to really care, mhmm
Face of despair
If you should plough old fields like these
You'd plough up memories
Don't tell the young to mend their ways
You can't show them better days
Their better days are yet ahead
Your better days have long been dead
Rest easy in your rocking chair, mhm
And look at your September country
Face of despair
Shoulders weary from the load
Life is rough as a gravel road
How much of it can you bear, mhmm
Look at your September country
Face of despair
In the September of your years
Eyes that hide a veil of tears
A look of longing always there, mhmm
Face of despair
If you should plough old fields like these
You'd plough up memories
Don't tell the young to mend their ways
You can't show them better days
Their better days are yet ahead
Your better days have long been dead
Rest easy in your rocking chair, mhmm
And look at your September country
Mhm, face of despair, mhmm
If you should plough old fields like these
You'd plough up memories
Don't tell the young to mend their ways
You can't show them better days
Their better days are yet ahead
Your better days have long been dead
Rest easy in your rocking chair mhm
What are you looking at now?
That's your September country
Face of despair
Fingers callus from the plough
Wrinkled weather beatin' brow
Streak of silver in the hair, mhmm
Face of despair, mhmm
Credits
Writer(s): Johnny Cash
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Other Album Tracks
- Flesh and Blood
- I Walk the Line
- Hungry
- This Town
- This Side of the Law
- Flesh and Blood - Instrumental
- 'Cause I Love You
- 'Cause I Love You - Instrumental
- The World's Gonna Fall on You
- Face of Despair
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Altri album
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- Spotlight / Well Alright
- Well Alright
- The Best of Johnny Cash: Sun Records Essentials (feat. The Tennessee Two)
- INTEGRAL JOHNNY CASH 1954 - 1962
- My Way Volume III
- My Way Volume II
- My Way
- Bear's Sonic Journals: Live at The Carousel Ballroom, 4/24/1968
- Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968)
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