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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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 hanging Joe Bean this morning,
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for killing a man in Arkansas.
Funny thing about it,
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Joe Bean has never been to Arkansas.
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On top of that,
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Joe Bean never heard of the man.
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In fact, today is Joe Bean's
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twentieth birthday.

Verse 2
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See through the prison bars, Joe Bean,
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see where the gallows stand.
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Just twenty short years from the day you were born,
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you died by the hangman's hand.
Yes, they're hanging Joe Bean this morning,
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for a shooting that he never did.
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He killed 20 men,
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by the time he was 10, he was an unruly kid.
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Yes, they're hanging Joe

Verse 3
Bean for the
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one shooting that Joe Bean never did.
Well, Joe, your mother is at the Capitol,
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asking the governor for a stay.
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And it's hard on her,   'cause she knows where you were,
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on that particular day.
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You were working Joe Bean, hard working,
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robbing the Santa Fe.

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

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