Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash


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This is the version of Folsom Prison Blues that Cash played in his later life during the late 80s till the 
end of his career, the main source I use is this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzCyHZLhYK4 and go to 50
seconds in.

If you're playing both parts of singing and solos and introduction then do not use a capo.

Chord Fingering (if not using a capo then the chords are E, E7, A and B7)

     
e|-2--2--3--3-
B|-3--1--0--2-
G|-2--2--0--2-
D|-0--0--0--2-
A|-------2--0-
E|-------3----

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Hello I'm Johnny Cash 

[Verse 1]


I hear the tra

in a comin', I

t's rollin' 'r

ound the bend

And I ain't se

              
en the sunshin

              
e, Since, I do

         
n't know when

I'm stuck in F

              
olsom Prison A

              
nd time keeps 

        
draggin' on

But that train

              
 keeps a-rolli

              
n', On down to

       
 San Antone

[Verse 2]


When I was jus

t a baby. My M

ama told me, s

on

Always be a go

              
od boy. Don't 

              
ever play with

 
 guns

But I shot a m

              
an in Reno. Ju

              
st to watch hi

  
m die

When I hear th

              
at whistle blo

              
win'. I hang m

            
y head and cry

[Verse 3]


I bet there's 

rich folks eat

in', In a fanc

y dining car

They're probab

              
ly drinkin' co

              
ffee, And smok

          
in' big cigars

But I know I h

              
ad it comin', 

              
I know I can't

      
 be free

But those peop

              
le keep a-movi

              
n', And that's

          
 what tortures

 me

[Chorus]


Well, if they 

freed me from 

this prison, I

f that railroa

d train was mi

ne

I bet I'd move

              
 out over a li

              
ttle, Farther 

          
down the line

Far from Folso

              
m Prison, That

              
's where I wan

      
t to stay

And I'd let th

              
at lonesome wh

              
istle, Blow my

         
 blues away

[Outro verse]


Blow...my blue

   
s away

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