Chords for Johnny Cash - Man In Black -

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Well, you wonder why I always dress in black, [F] why you never [Bbm] see bright colors [Cm] on [C] my back,
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and why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone?
[G] Well, there's a reason for the things that [F] I have on.
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, [Bb] _ _
[F] living in the hopeless, hungry [C] side of town.
[Eb] I wear it for the [F] prisoner who has long [Bb] paid for his [G] crime, but is there because he's a victim [F] of the time. _
I wear the black for those who've never read _ [Bb] _
or listened to the words [B] that Jesus [C] said
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about the way to happiness through love [F] and charity, why you [G] think he's talking straight [F] to you and me.
_ Well, we're doing mighty fine, [Bb] I do suppose, [Bbm] in our streak of lightning cars [C] and fancy clothes,
[Eb] but just so we're [F] reminded of the ones [Bb] who are held back, [G] up front there ought to be a [F] man in black.
I wear it for the sick and the lonely old, [Bb] for the reckless ones whose [C] baths reflect them cold.
[Eb] I wear the black in mourning for the lives [Bbm] that could have been, [C] each week we lose a hundred [F] fine young men.
[Bb] And I wear it for the thousands who died, _ [Bbm] _
believing that the Lord was [C] on their side.
[Eb] I wear it for another [F] hundred thousand who have died, [G]
believing that we all were [F] on their side.
[Bbm] But there's things that never will be right, I [Bb] know, _ [F] and things need changing everywhere [C] you go.
_ [Eb] But till we start to make a move to make a few [Bbm] things right, [C] you'll never see me wear a [F] suit of white.
Oh, [Bb] I'd love to wear a rainbow every day _ and tell the world that [C] everything's okay.
_ [Eb] But I'll try to carry off a little darkness [Bb] on my back till things are brighter.
[F] I'm the man [Bb] in black. _ _ _ _
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