Chords for Larry King Live with Johnny Cash (2002) part 3
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70.9 bpm
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C
F
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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John as we said keeping on in the liner notes to the album the essential Johnny Cash Bono of you two calls cash
the most male voice in Christendom
Every man knows he is a sissy
compared to Johnny Cash
Well said how does that make you feel?
That embarrassed me
In front of you.
No, you know, where did you start?
Where did I start Memphis?
Memphis
1955 was your first hit?
cry cry cry
Country hit right?
Well, Folsom prison blues was my next record.
It was it was the first big country hit
How did you come to entertain in prison?
How did that begin for you?
Well, the convicts at Huntsville, Texas State Prison had heard Folsom prison blues
Which was a recorded studio, right a studio recording and and this was 1956
I got the invitation to do a concert at Huntsville, Texas.
So
the Tennessee to and I was Marshall Grant and
Luther Perkins and I went down to Huntsville, Texas and
Set up in the middle of the rodeo arena.
They have a big rodeo there every year the famous well
just before the rodeo they had me out as a special attraction and I
Was out there supposedly to sing Folsom prison blue.
[C] [Gm] [F]
I
hear the train
Well, we did Folsom prison blues and started [G] raining and the [Fm] thunderstorm hit
[Gm] And we were right in the middle of that arena and the rain
Is pouring down on our one little amplifier and in the middle of the song it burns out
and I got no amplification none whatsoever and there's thunder and lightning all around me and
The men have been told not to leave their seats, but they all do
They all do and they walk down in the rain to get close enough to hear me sing without the amplifier
And I sang that song and they demanded that I sing it again and again and again in the rain in the rain
We all got soaking wet, but we had a great time
But after that [F] Larry I got a request from San [N] Quentin from the word got around the prison grapevine
That I was one of them I guess
But the word got around in San Quentin and they have that New Year's Day show every year
The San Quentin I was invited to perform at that so I started I made that an annual event for about five years
Were you one of them?
Hmm.
Did you feel an affinity?
Well only in my mind and then in the songs of a singing here
But obviously you had and you were writing some of them, right?
Mm-hmm.
You obviously had some
Contact with these men, what do you think it was?
And it well as as I got into the 60s, you know, I began to having a lot of contact with
men from the seamy side of life
Really from the seamy side of life and when I got into drug addiction
You could associate with [G#] mm-hmm because there were guys in there for drugs [N] Yeah
when you got thrown into jail a few times you hit knocked around a few times your hand slapped with a
Black Jack for
Having them on the bars, you know, you you become
Get to thinking like them I guess did it harden you?
No, it didn't hurt me not at all
No, I think it's softened me.
I think it really softened me.
I really do.
I
Remember the last time I was in jail before that time I told you about you know
When the [C] Commissioner of Mental Health Matt Winston was out [N] there every day.
I
came home from and
Seeking help but I came home from from being in jail
down in Georgia in a little county jail and
The jailer had picked me up and put me in his jail.
I didn't know about it
I didn't know a thing till I woke up the next morning and here I am in jail and I started
banging on the bars kicking the cell door this and that just
Raising cane he came down and got me out and brought me up to the front and he threw my money and my car keys
And my pills up on the counter and he said here you take it all he said you take you take the pills
Go ahead and kill yourself if you want
He said it's your God given right to do that if you'd like to do it
He said I did the best I could do I brought you in to save your life
but now you go ahead you go ahead and kill yourself or you go take care of yourself and
I didn't I just put the things in my pocket and left and I
Decided that
He's oh he said also
He said my wife is a big fan of yours
And he said when I went home last night and told her I had Johnny Cash in my jail
She cried all night, and he said I don't see you anymore
So get out of here so what that do to you.
It's kind of you know brought me down about that tall
I mean with all the things you had it had to be wow
What am I doing here?
Yeah, right?
What are you stupid?
[E] Johnny Cash is our guest the man doesn't go away new albums new CDs
[G] One of the great great great figures [D] in American music history.
We'll be right back
[G] She walks [D] these [G] hills and along [D] black [Gm] veil
She visits [F#m] my [G] grave on a night [D] when way
Nobody [G] knows nobody [F#m] see
[G] [A] Nobody knows [D] but me
The [G] [D] CNN
the most male voice in Christendom
Every man knows he is a sissy
compared to Johnny Cash
Well said how does that make you feel?
That embarrassed me
In front of you.
No, you know, where did you start?
Where did I start Memphis?
Memphis
1955 was your first hit?
cry cry cry
Country hit right?
Well, Folsom prison blues was my next record.
It was it was the first big country hit
How did you come to entertain in prison?
How did that begin for you?
Well, the convicts at Huntsville, Texas State Prison had heard Folsom prison blues
Which was a recorded studio, right a studio recording and and this was 1956
I got the invitation to do a concert at Huntsville, Texas.
So
the Tennessee to and I was Marshall Grant and
Luther Perkins and I went down to Huntsville, Texas and
Set up in the middle of the rodeo arena.
They have a big rodeo there every year the famous well
just before the rodeo they had me out as a special attraction and I
Was out there supposedly to sing Folsom prison blue.
[C] [Gm] [F]
I
hear the train
Well, we did Folsom prison blues and started [G] raining and the [Fm] thunderstorm hit
[Gm] And we were right in the middle of that arena and the rain
Is pouring down on our one little amplifier and in the middle of the song it burns out
and I got no amplification none whatsoever and there's thunder and lightning all around me and
The men have been told not to leave their seats, but they all do
They all do and they walk down in the rain to get close enough to hear me sing without the amplifier
And I sang that song and they demanded that I sing it again and again and again in the rain in the rain
We all got soaking wet, but we had a great time
But after that [F] Larry I got a request from San [N] Quentin from the word got around the prison grapevine
That I was one of them I guess
But the word got around in San Quentin and they have that New Year's Day show every year
The San Quentin I was invited to perform at that so I started I made that an annual event for about five years
Were you one of them?
Hmm.
Did you feel an affinity?
Well only in my mind and then in the songs of a singing here
But obviously you had and you were writing some of them, right?
Mm-hmm.
You obviously had some
Contact with these men, what do you think it was?
And it well as as I got into the 60s, you know, I began to having a lot of contact with
men from the seamy side of life
Really from the seamy side of life and when I got into drug addiction
You could associate with [G#] mm-hmm because there were guys in there for drugs [N] Yeah
when you got thrown into jail a few times you hit knocked around a few times your hand slapped with a
Black Jack for
Having them on the bars, you know, you you become
Get to thinking like them I guess did it harden you?
No, it didn't hurt me not at all
No, I think it's softened me.
I think it really softened me.
I really do.
I
Remember the last time I was in jail before that time I told you about you know
When the [C] Commissioner of Mental Health Matt Winston was out [N] there every day.
I
came home from and
Seeking help but I came home from from being in jail
down in Georgia in a little county jail and
The jailer had picked me up and put me in his jail.
I didn't know about it
I didn't know a thing till I woke up the next morning and here I am in jail and I started
banging on the bars kicking the cell door this and that just
Raising cane he came down and got me out and brought me up to the front and he threw my money and my car keys
And my pills up on the counter and he said here you take it all he said you take you take the pills
Go ahead and kill yourself if you want
He said it's your God given right to do that if you'd like to do it
He said I did the best I could do I brought you in to save your life
but now you go ahead you go ahead and kill yourself or you go take care of yourself and
I didn't I just put the things in my pocket and left and I
Decided that
He's oh he said also
He said my wife is a big fan of yours
And he said when I went home last night and told her I had Johnny Cash in my jail
She cried all night, and he said I don't see you anymore
So get out of here so what that do to you.
It's kind of you know brought me down about that tall
I mean with all the things you had it had to be wow
What am I doing here?
Yeah, right?
What are you stupid?
[E] Johnny Cash is our guest the man doesn't go away new albums new CDs
[G] One of the great great great figures [D] in American music history.
We'll be right back
[G] She walks [D] these [G] hills and along [D] black [Gm] veil
She visits [F#m] my [G] grave on a night [D] when way
Nobody [G] knows nobody [F#m] see
[G] [A] Nobody knows [D] but me
The [G] [D] CNN
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Gm
John as we said keeping on in the liner notes to the album the essential Johnny Cash Bono of you two calls cash
the most male voice in Christendom
Every man knows he is a sissy
compared to Johnny Cash
Well said how does that make you feel?
That embarrassed me
In front of you.
No, you know, where did you start?
Where did I start Memphis?
_ Memphis
1955 was your first hit?
cry cry cry
Country hit right?
Well, Folsom prison blues was my next record.
It was it was the first big country hit
How did you come to entertain in prison?
How did that begin for you?
Well, the convicts at Huntsville, Texas State Prison had heard Folsom prison blues
Which was a recorded studio, right a studio recording and and this was 1956
I got the invitation to do a concert at Huntsville, Texas.
So
the Tennessee to and I was Marshall Grant and
Luther Perkins and I went down to Huntsville, Texas and
Set up in the middle of the rodeo arena.
They have a big rodeo there every year the famous well
just before the rodeo they had me out as a special attraction and I
Was out there supposedly to sing Folsom prison blue.
[C] _ _ _ [Gm] _ [F] _ _
I
hear the train
Well, we did Folsom prison blues and started [G] raining and the [Fm] thunderstorm hit
[Gm] And we were right in the middle of that arena and the rain
Is pouring down on our one little amplifier and in the middle of the song it burns out
and I got no amplification none whatsoever and there's thunder and lightning all around me and
The men have been told not to leave their seats, but they all do
They all do and they walk down in the rain to get close enough to hear me sing without the amplifier
And I sang that song and they demanded that I sing it again and again and again in the rain in the rain
We all got soaking wet, but we had a great time
But after that [F] Larry I got a request from San [N] Quentin from the word got around the prison grapevine
That I was one of them I guess
But the word got around in San Quentin and they have that New Year's Day show every year
The San Quentin I was invited to perform at that so I started I made that an annual event for about five years
Were you one of them?
Hmm.
Did you feel an affinity?
Well only in my mind and then in the songs of a singing here
But obviously you had and you were writing some of them, right?
Mm-hmm.
You obviously had some
_ Contact with these men, what do you think it was?
And it well as as I got into the 60s, you know, I began to having a lot of contact with
men from the seamy side of life
Really from the seamy side of life and when I got into drug addiction
You could associate with [G#] mm-hmm because there were guys in there for drugs [N] Yeah
when you got thrown into jail a few times you hit knocked around a few times your hand slapped with a
Black Jack for
Having them on the bars, you know, you you become
Get to thinking like them I guess did it harden you?
No, it didn't hurt me not at all
No, I think it's softened me.
I think it really softened me.
I really do.
I
Remember the last time I was in jail before that time I told you about you know
When the [C] Commissioner of Mental Health Matt Winston was out [N] there every day.
I
came home from and
Seeking help but I came home from from being in jail
down in Georgia in a little county jail and
The jailer had picked me up and put me in his jail.
I didn't know about it
I didn't know a thing till I woke up the next morning and here I am in jail and I started
banging on the bars kicking the cell door this and that just
Raising cane he came down and got me out and brought me up to the front and he threw my money and my car keys
And my pills up on the counter and he said here you take it all he said you take you take the pills
Go ahead and kill yourself if you want
He said it's your God given right to do that if you'd like to do it
He said I did the best I could do I brought you in to save your life
but now you go ahead you go ahead and kill yourself or you go take care of yourself and
I didn't I just put the things in my pocket and left and I
Decided that
He's oh he said also
He said my wife is a big fan of yours
And he said when I went home last night and told her I had Johnny Cash in my jail
She cried all night, and he said I don't see you anymore
So get out of here so what that do to you.
It's kind of you know brought me down about that tall
I mean with all the things you had it had to be wow
What am I doing here?
Yeah, right?
What are you stupid?
_ [E] Johnny Cash is our guest the man doesn't go away new albums new CDs
[G] One of the great great great figures [D] in American music history.
We'll be right back
[G] She walks [D] these [G] hills and along [D] black [Gm] veil
She visits [F#m] my [G] grave on a night [D] when way
_ _ Nobody _ [G] knows nobody [F#m] see
[G] _ [A] Nobody knows [D] but me
The _ [G] _ _ [D] CNN
the most male voice in Christendom
Every man knows he is a sissy
compared to Johnny Cash
Well said how does that make you feel?
That embarrassed me
In front of you.
No, you know, where did you start?
Where did I start Memphis?
_ Memphis
1955 was your first hit?
cry cry cry
Country hit right?
Well, Folsom prison blues was my next record.
It was it was the first big country hit
How did you come to entertain in prison?
How did that begin for you?
Well, the convicts at Huntsville, Texas State Prison had heard Folsom prison blues
Which was a recorded studio, right a studio recording and and this was 1956
I got the invitation to do a concert at Huntsville, Texas.
So
the Tennessee to and I was Marshall Grant and
Luther Perkins and I went down to Huntsville, Texas and
Set up in the middle of the rodeo arena.
They have a big rodeo there every year the famous well
just before the rodeo they had me out as a special attraction and I
Was out there supposedly to sing Folsom prison blue.
[C] _ _ _ [Gm] _ [F] _ _
I
hear the train
Well, we did Folsom prison blues and started [G] raining and the [Fm] thunderstorm hit
[Gm] And we were right in the middle of that arena and the rain
Is pouring down on our one little amplifier and in the middle of the song it burns out
and I got no amplification none whatsoever and there's thunder and lightning all around me and
The men have been told not to leave their seats, but they all do
They all do and they walk down in the rain to get close enough to hear me sing without the amplifier
And I sang that song and they demanded that I sing it again and again and again in the rain in the rain
We all got soaking wet, but we had a great time
But after that [F] Larry I got a request from San [N] Quentin from the word got around the prison grapevine
That I was one of them I guess
But the word got around in San Quentin and they have that New Year's Day show every year
The San Quentin I was invited to perform at that so I started I made that an annual event for about five years
Were you one of them?
Hmm.
Did you feel an affinity?
Well only in my mind and then in the songs of a singing here
But obviously you had and you were writing some of them, right?
Mm-hmm.
You obviously had some
_ Contact with these men, what do you think it was?
And it well as as I got into the 60s, you know, I began to having a lot of contact with
men from the seamy side of life
Really from the seamy side of life and when I got into drug addiction
You could associate with [G#] mm-hmm because there were guys in there for drugs [N] Yeah
when you got thrown into jail a few times you hit knocked around a few times your hand slapped with a
Black Jack for
Having them on the bars, you know, you you become
Get to thinking like them I guess did it harden you?
No, it didn't hurt me not at all
No, I think it's softened me.
I think it really softened me.
I really do.
I
Remember the last time I was in jail before that time I told you about you know
When the [C] Commissioner of Mental Health Matt Winston was out [N] there every day.
I
came home from and
Seeking help but I came home from from being in jail
down in Georgia in a little county jail and
The jailer had picked me up and put me in his jail.
I didn't know about it
I didn't know a thing till I woke up the next morning and here I am in jail and I started
banging on the bars kicking the cell door this and that just
Raising cane he came down and got me out and brought me up to the front and he threw my money and my car keys
And my pills up on the counter and he said here you take it all he said you take you take the pills
Go ahead and kill yourself if you want
He said it's your God given right to do that if you'd like to do it
He said I did the best I could do I brought you in to save your life
but now you go ahead you go ahead and kill yourself or you go take care of yourself and
I didn't I just put the things in my pocket and left and I
Decided that
He's oh he said also
He said my wife is a big fan of yours
And he said when I went home last night and told her I had Johnny Cash in my jail
She cried all night, and he said I don't see you anymore
So get out of here so what that do to you.
It's kind of you know brought me down about that tall
I mean with all the things you had it had to be wow
What am I doing here?
Yeah, right?
What are you stupid?
_ [E] Johnny Cash is our guest the man doesn't go away new albums new CDs
[G] One of the great great great figures [D] in American music history.
We'll be right back
[G] She walks [D] these [G] hills and along [D] black [Gm] veil
She visits [F#m] my [G] grave on a night [D] when way
_ _ Nobody _ [G] knows nobody [F#m] see
[G] _ [A] Nobody knows [D] but me
The _ [G] _ _ [D] CNN