Johnny Cash - Transfusion Blues guitar chord

TRANSFUSION BLUES

Album: Now, There Was a Song!

KEY: Bb / CAPO: 1 / PLAY: A

VERSE:

A

Early one morning while making the rounds

A E

Took a transfusion and I shot my woman down

E

Went right home and I went to bed

N/C

Well I stuck that loving forty-four beneath my head

VERSE:

Got up next morning and I grabbed that gun

Took a transfusion and away I run

Made a good run but I run too slow

They overtook me down in Juarez, Mexico

VERSE:

Laid in the hot joints taking the pill

In walked a sheriff from Jericho Hill

He said Willie Lee your name is not Jack Brown

You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down

VERSE:

Said yes oh yes my name is Willie Lee

If you got a warrent just read it to me

Shot her down because she made me slow

I thought I was her daddy but she had five more

VERSE:

When I was arrested I was dressed in black

Put me on a train and they took me back

Had no friends for to go my bail

They slapped my dried-up carcass in that county jail

VERSE:

Into the courtroom my trial began

Where I was handled by twelve honest men

Just before the jury started out

Well I saw that little judge commence to look about

VERSE:

In about five minutes in walked a man

Holding the verdict in his right hand

Verdict read in the first degree

Well I hollered Lordy, Lordy have mercy on me

VERSE:

Judge me smiled as he picked up his pen

Ninety-nine years in the San Quentin pen

Ninety-nine years underneath that ground

I can't forget the day I shot my woman down

VERSE:

A D

Come all you gotta listen unto me

B7 E A

Lay off that liquor and let that transfusion be