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Cocaine Blues easy guitar chords by
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash

1968Country
5.0 (8)
Intro 1
G
G
G
G

Verse 1
G

Early one morning while makin' the rounds

Took a shot of cocaine
D

and I shot my woman down

Went right home and I went to bed
G
D
G

I stuck that lovin' .44 beneath my head
G
G

Verse 2
G

Got up next mornin' and I grabbed that gun
D

Took a shot of cocaine and away I run

Made a good run but I ran too slow
G
D
G

They overtook me down in Juarez, Mexico
G
G

Verse 3
G

Late in the hot joints takin' the pills
D

In walked the sheriff from Jericho Hill

He said, "Willy Lee,

your name is not Jack Brown"
G

"You're the dirty heck

that shot your woman down"
G
G

Verse 4
G

I said, "Yes, Sir my name is Willy Lee"
D

"If you've got the warrant just a- read it to me"

"Shot her down because she made me sore"
G

"I thought I was her daddy
D
G

but she had five more"
G
G

Verse 5
G

When I was arrested I was dressed in black
D

They put me on train and it took me back

I had no friends for to go my bail
G

They slapped my dried up carcass
Solo 1

in that county jail
G
G
G
D

D
D
G
D
G

G
G
G
D

D
D
G
G

G
G

Verse 6
G

Got up next morning about a half past nine
D

Spied a sheriff coming down the line

Hopped and he coughed

as he cleared his throat
G

He said, come on you dirty hop

into that district court
G
G

Verse 7
G

Into the courtroom, my trial began
D

Where I was handled by twelve honest men

Just before that jury started out
G

I saw that little judge
D
G

commence to look about
G
G

Verse 8
G

In about five minutes, in walked a man
D

Holding the verdict in his right hand

The verdict read in the first degree
G

I hollered, lordy lordy, have mercy on me
G
G

Verse 9
G

The judge he smiled as he picked up his pen
D

Ninety-nine years in the Folsom pen

Ninety-nine years underneath that ground
G

I can't forget the day
D
G

I shot my woman down
G
G

Outro 1
C
G
E

Come on you hops and listen unto me
A
D
G

Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be
G

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