Riot In Cell Block #9 (Take 1) chords by Johnny Cash
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Verse 1
(C major) Are you ready?
Are we gonna do it again?
Hell yes, go!
I gotta have some water.
I can't ever sing
that song right off the bat.
Oh, I gotta warm up to it.
We'll try it again. (F major) (C major)
You gonna do it right now?
Yeah, that's good. That's fine.
Don't try to do it right.
Just do it real stinkin'.
That's the only way I can do it.
OK, let's go. Go. Go. (G major) (C major)
On July the 2nd in 1953, (F major)
(C major) I was doing time (G major) for armed robbery. (C major)
At 4 in the morning,
I was sleeping in my cell.
I heard a whistle blow,
and then I heard somebody yell,
Well, there's a (F major) riot goin' on,
yeah, there's (C major) a riot goin' on
Ooh, (G major) well, there's a riot goin' on
up
(C major) in cell block number nine
Now, the trouble started up
in cell block number four
It spread like fire all (G major) across the prison floor
(C major) I said, OK, boys,
I'm getting ready to run.
Here comes the warden
with a great big Tommy gun.
And there's a (F major) riot going on.
Yeah, there's (C major) a riot going on.
Ooh, there's (G major) a riot going on
up (F major) in (C major) cell block number nine.
(G major) (C major)
(F major) (C major)
(F major) (C major) (G major) (F major) (C major)
(G major)
(C major) Now the wards will come out
with your hands up in the air.
If you don't quit this riot,
now you're all (G major) gonna get (C major) the chair.
Scarface Jones said it's just
too late to quit.
Pass the dynamite
because the fuse, she's lit.
And there's a (F major) riot going on.
Yeah, yeah, there's (C major) a riot going on.
Ooh, there's (G major) a riot going on
up (F major) in (C major) cell block number nine. (G major) (C major) (G major)
(C major) In the 47th hour now,
the tear gas got our men,
we're all back in our cells,
but every (C major) now and then,
well there's a (F major) riot goin' on,
yeah, there's (C major) a riot goin' on,
oh, there's a (G major) riot goin' on
up in cell block number (C major) nine (G major) (C major)
Riot In Cell Block #9 (Take 1)
Johnny Cash
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