Joe Bean chords by Johnny Cash

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Verse 1
Last time we were here at Folsom Prison, they
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 (C major) were hanging Joe Bean.
Is Joe still here, Joe Bean? Hang the son of a bitch anyways, right?
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Well, they're  (G major) hanging Joe Bean this morning,
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for  (C major) killing a man in Arkansas.
Funny thing about it,
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Joe Bean  (G major) has never been to Arkansas.
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On top of  (C major) that,
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Joe Bean never heard of  (F major) the man.
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In fact,  (G major) today is Joe Bean's
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twentieth birthday.  (C major) 

Verse 2
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See through the prison  (C major) bars, Joe Bean,
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see where the gallows stand.  (G major) 
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Just  (C major) twenty short years from the  (F major) day you were born,
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you  (C major) died by the  (G major) hangman's  (C major) hand.
Yes, they're hanging Joe Bean this morning,
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for a shooting that he nev (G major) er did.
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He killed  (C major) 20 men,
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by the  (F major) time he was 10, he  (C major) was an  (G major) unruly kid.  (C major) 
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Yes, they're  (F major) hanging Joe

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Verse 3

Bean for the

one shooting that Joe Bean never did.

Well, Joe, your mother is at the Capitol,

asking the governor for a stay.

And it's hard on her, 'cause she knows where you were,

on that particular day.

You were working Joe Bean, hard working,

robbing the Santa Fe.

Verse 4
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Well, the telegraph wires  (C major) 
are humming.
Here, the governor's
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words come  (G major) through.
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He said, "I can (C major) 't set you free, it's  (F major) not up to me,
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but there's much,  (C major) Joe  (G major) Bean, I'll  (C major) do.
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I'll  (F major) join your mother in ex (C major) tending  (G major) Birthday greetings
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to  (C major) you. Happy Birth (G major) day, Joe Bean."  (C major) 