Cocaine Blues Live by Johnny Cash
Cocaine Blues Live At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash
(The notes for the Joaquin Phoenix on the
Walk The Line Soundtrack version are almost identical)
p=pulloff
h=hammeron
=slide down
/=slide up
m=palm mute
Capo on 1st fret
intro (Electric):
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|---------5m--5m--5m--5m--5m--5m--5m--5m-|
|---0-2-3-------3-------3-------3--------|
|-3---------3-------3-------3-------3----|
This is what the electric does curing the singing:
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|---5m--5m--5m--5m--5m--5m--5m--5m--5m--5m--5m--|
|-3-------3-------3-------3-------3-------3-----|
|-----3-------3-------3-------3-------3-------3-|
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|---5m--5m--5m--5m--5m--5m--5m--5m--5m--5m---------|
|-----5-------5-------5-------5-------5------0-2-3-|
|-3-------3-------3-------3-------3-------3--------|
Chords:
C
Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds
C G
I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down
G
I went right home and I went to bed
C
I stuck that lovin' 44 beneath my head
C
Got up next mornin' and I grabbed that gun
C G
Took a shot of cocaine and away I run
G
Made a good run but I ran too slow
C
They overtook me down in Juarez Mexico
C
Late in the hot joints takin' the pills
C G
In walked the sheriff from Jericho Hill
G
He said Willy Lee your name is not Jack Brown
C
You're the dirty heck that shot your woman down
C
Said yes, oh yes my name is Willy Lee
C
If you've got the warrant just a-read it to me
G
Shot her down because she made me sore
C
I thought I was her daddy but she had five more
C
When I was arrested I was dressed in black
C G
They put me on a train and they took me back
G
Had no friend for to go my bail
C
They slapped my dried up carcass in that county jail
C
Early next mornin' bout a half past nine
C G
I spied the sheriff coming down the line
G
Ah, and he coughed as he cleared his throat
C
He said come on you dirty heck into that district court
C
Into the courtroom my trial began
C G
Where I was handled by twelve honest men
G
Just before the jury started out
C
I saw the little judge commence to look about
C
In about five minutes in walked the man
C G
Holding the verdict in his right hand
G
The verdict read murder in the first degree
C
I hollered Lordy Lordy, have a mercy on me
C
The judge he smiled as he picked up his pen
C G
99 years in the Folsom pen
G
99 years underneath that ground
C
I can't forget the day I shot that bad bitch down
Outro:
Electric during the singing:
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|--------0-2-3---3--2-1-0---0--------------------2-|
|-3---3--------3----------0---0----5---5--3---3--3-|
|---3----------------------------3---3------3------|
Outro Chords:
C F
Come on you've gotta listen on to me
D G C
Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.
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