"Mister Garfield" is a traditional song sometimes credited to Ramblin' Jack Elliott.
The song is about the assassination of U.S. President James A. Garfield by Charles Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington on July 2, 1881.
Johnny Cash recorded it on Columbia Records for his 1965 double album Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West.
Released in June 1965 as the first and only single from the yet-to-be-released album (Columbia 4-43313, with "The Streets of Laredo" on the opposite side), it reached number 15 on the U.S. Billboard country chart and number 17 on the Cash Box country chart.
Later Cash sang the song on his album ' (1972).