Johnny Cash

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

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