Tablature folsom prison blues2 - Johnny Cash

          



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  Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash

  (from "The Songs of Johnny Cash")

  

    G

  I hear the train a-comin'; it's rollin' 'round the bend,

  

    G                                              G7

  And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when,

  

      C7                                             G

  I'm stuck at Folsom Prison and time keeps draggin' on.

  

           D7                                     G

  But that train keeps a-rollin' on down to San Antone.

  

  

  2. When I was just a baby, my momma told me, "Son,

     Always be a good boy; don't ever play with guns."

     But I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

     When I hear that whistle blowin', I hang my head and cry.

  

  3. I bet there's rich folk eatin'in a fancy dining car.

     They're prob'ly drinkin' coffee and smokin' big cigars,

     But I know I had it comin', I know I can't be free,

     But those people keep a-movin', and that's what tortures me.

  

  4. Well if they freed me from this prison, if that railroad train was mine,

     I bet I'd move it all a little farther down the line,

     Far from Folsom Prison, that's where I want to stay,

     And I'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away.

  

  

  

  From: t.j.strom@ub.uio.no (Trond J. Stroem)

  

  

  I think Cash' recording goes E - A - B7, otherwise this is correct, of course.

  -- 

  

  From: colton@bnr.ca (Kevin Colton)

  Subject: TAB:  Fulsom Prison Blues

  

  Well no one has requested this but here are the riffs

  from Johnny Cash's "Fulsom Prison Blues".  I'd like to 

  see tab/chords for any of his other songs, particularly

  "Ring of Fire."    All mistakes are mine alone ... Kevin

  

  

  h    = hammer 

  p    = pull off

  b    = bend

  (B7) = chord

  

   

  INTRO and END ...

   

  e

  B

  G

  D        1 1               Verse = E A B7

  A  2 2 2     2                 alternate pick / downstrum

  E              3b4b3 0         ie. pick 5th / down /

                                     pick 6th / down

   

   

  SOLO ...

   

  e      7 9p7 10 7       7 9p7 9b10b9

  B  8h9              8h9

  G                                       x 2

  D

  A

  E

   

   

  e  7 6 5     5           5       5   9 5   12 11 12 11

  B              5           5       5     5

  G        6 6     6   6 6     6

  D

  A

  E

   

   

  e

  B

  G

  D    0h2   2     2     2     0h2   2

  A        2         0h2           2         0 1

  E  0           0           0           0 4

   

   

  e

  B

  G

  D                                    1   1   1   1      

  A  2 (B7)   (B7) 2 (B7)   (B7) 0h2 2   2   1   0

  E         2             2                          2b3b2 0

   

   

   

   

   

   

  

  

  

   


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