Artist: | Johnny Cash (English) |
User: | Travor Furley |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
Johnny Cash - I Got Stripes (Live at Folsom Prison version)
CAPO 2 -- to match the Folsom Prison recording
[Verse 1]
C G
On a Monday, I was arrested.
C
On a Tuesday, they locked me in the jail.
G
On a Wednesday, my trial was attested.
C
On a Thursday they said guilty and the judge's gavel fell.
[Chorus]
G
I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders.
C
I got chains, chains around my feet.
G
I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders,
C
and them chains them chains They're about to drag me down.
[Verse 2]
C G
On A Monday I Got My Stripe-ed Britches.
C
On A Tuesday I Got My Ball And Chain
G
On A Wednesday I'm Workin' Diggin' Ditches.
C
On A Thursday Lord I Begged ' Em Not To Knock Me Down Again
[Chorus]
G
I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders.
C
I got chains, chains around my feet.
G
I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders,
C
and them chains them chains They're about to drag me down.
[Verse 3]
C G
On a Monday, my mama come to see me.
C
On a Tuesday, they caught me with a file.
G
On a Wednesday, I'm down in solitary.
C
On a Thursday, I start on bread and water for a while.
[Chorus]
G
I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders.
C
I got chains, chains around my feet.
G
I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders,
C
and them chains them chains are about to drag me down.