Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues guitar chord
Cocaine Blues
By Johnny Cash
**(Capo 1st Fret)**
(Comment : Each C chord is preceded
with a single note walk. G-A-B-C (Relative to capo)
NC------->
e|-------------|--0------------|
b|-------------|--1------------|
g|-------------|--0------------|
D|-------------|--2------------|
A|-------0--2--|--3------------|
E|----3--------|---------------|
C| = Band tacet(stop) until next chord
Intro G-A-B-C
C
Early one mornin while makin the rounds
G
I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down
I went right home and I went to bed
C|
I stuck that lovin' forty-four beneath my head
C
Got up next mornin' and I grabbed that gun
G
I took a shot of cocaine and away I run
Made a good run but I run too slow
C|
They overtook me down in Juarez Mexico
C
Laid in the hot joints takin' the pill
G
In walked a sheriff from Jericho Hill
He said, "Willy Lee, your name is not Jack Brown,
C|
You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down"
C
"Yes, Oh Yes, My name is Willy Lee,
G
If you've got a warrant just a read it to me,
Shot her down because she made me slow(?) (?sore?),
C|
I thought I was her daddy but she had five more"
C
When I was arrested I was dressed in black
G
They put me on a train and they took me back
Had no friend for to go my bail
C|
They slapped my dried-up carcass in that county jail
C
The next mornin' about a half past nine
G
I spied a sheriff comin' down the line
I said he coughed as he cleared his throat
C|
He said "Come on, you dirty hack into that district court"
C
Into the courtroom my trial began
G
Where I was held by twelve honest men
Just before the jury started out
C|
I saw that little judge commence to look about
C
In about five minutes in walked a man
G
Holding the verdict in his right hand
The verdict read "In the first degree...."
C|
I hollered "Lordy, Lordy, have mercy on me!"
C
The judge he smiled as he picked up his pen
G
Ninety-nine years in the Folsom Pen
Ninety-nine years underneath that ground
C|
I can't forget the day I shot that bad bitch down
C F
Come on you gotta listen unto me
G C NC
Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be
