title: Folsom Prison Blues (easy)
key: Blues
harp type: Chromatic
genre: C
skill: Any

By Johnny Cash
Key: C
G
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6 6 6 -6 7 5 5
I hear that train a-com-in’
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6 6 6 -6 7 6
It’s rol-lin’ ’round the bend,
G#dim
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6 6 6 -6 -6* 7 5
And I ain’t seen the sun-shine,
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5 6 6 6 -5*
Since, I don’t know when,
C
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-5* -5 5 -5 5 -5 5
I’m stuck in Fol-som Pri-son,
G
-9 -9 9 -9* 9 7
-5 -5 5 -5* 5 3
And time keeps drag-gin’ on,
D7
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6 6 -5 -5 -5 5 3
But that train keeps a-rol-lin’,
G
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3 3 3 3-2 -1*-1 1
On down to San An- tone.
When I was just a baby,
My Mama told me, “Son,
Always be a good boy,
Don’t ever play with guns,”
But I shot a man in Reno,
Just to watch him die,
When I hear that whistle blowin’,
I hang my head and cry.
I bet there’s rich folks eatin’,
In a fancy dining car,
They’re probably drinkin’ coffee,
And smokin’ big cigars,
But I know I had it comin’,
I know I can’t be free,
But those people keep a-movin’,
And that’s what tortures me.
Well, if they freed me from this prison,
If that railroad train was mine,
I bet I’d move out over a little,
Farther down the line,
Far from Folsom Prison,
That’s where I want to stay,
And I’d let that lonesome whistle,
Blow my Blues away.