Folsom Prison Blues

By Johnny Cash

This rendition is done in the style of Tom Remington and is intended for your personal use only. Please do not duplicate or sell.

As did Johnny Cash in his original version of Folsom Prison Blues, this is done with a hard driving bass beat and lively guitar strums.

Done in the key of   G

G                                                                                                                                                                        G7

I hear the train a comin'        It's rollin round the bend        I ain't seen the sunshine since   I don't know when

      C                                                                                G                         D7                                                             G

I'm stuck in Folsom Prison and time keeps draggin on       But the train keeps rollin        on down to San Antone

G                                                                                                                                                                     G7

When I was just a baby  my mama told me son     Always be a good boy       don't ever play with guns

           C                                                               G                        D7                                                                            G

But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die       When I hear that whistle blowin     I hang my head and cry.

G                                                                                                                                                                               G7

I bet there's rich folks eatin     in a fancy dinin car     They're probably drinkin coffee and smokin big cigars

           C                                                                  G                          D7                                                                           G

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.

G                                                                                                                                                                                          G7

Well if they freed me from this prison,     If that railroad train was mine   I bet I'd move a little farther down the line

C                                                                                      G                       D7                                                                      G

Far from Folsom Prison     that's where I want to stay    And I'd let that lonesome whistle blow all my blues away

Adding an instrumental in between versus can be done. I like Johnny's original version of an instrumental break.

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