Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues Live guitar tab

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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