Joe Bean chords by
Johnny Cash
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Key: Db major

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

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

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

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

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TunerE A D G B E

ChordsC G F

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