Johnny Cash Chords
For Some Of His Top Hits
Johnny Cash Guitar Lessons Available On This Page
1. A Boy Named Sue | 2. Big River | 3. Cry Cry Cry | 4. Flesh And Blood
5. Get Rhythm | 6. Hey Porter | 7. Hurt
8. If I Were A Carpenter | 9. I Wont Back Down | 10. Jackson
11. Sixteen Tons | 12. Sunday Morning Coming Down | 13. Tennessee Flat Top Box
14. Wreck Of The Ole 97
Upcoming tutorials not yet posted to this page are:
Folsom Prison Blues, Ghost Riders In The Sky, I Walk The Line,
Long Black Veil, Ring Of Fire
1. A Boy Named Sue
If you get the chance, take a look at the video on this song. You'll see Johnny reading the
words, and for good reason. He read over the lyrics only moments before going on stage.
They performed the song off the cuff with no practice, in one take, and it became a #1 hit when released
as a live single back in 1969. The song was written by Shel Silverstein.
The Boy Named Sue chords you'll need are G, C7 and D7.
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This song was released by Johnny Cash way back in 1958. The song peaked at #4 on the charts.
The Big River Johnny Cash chords I like to play this one in are E, Gb, A and B7.
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Johnny Cash performed a song called Hey Porter in 1955 for then owner of Sun Records, Sam
Philips. He was told that song wouldn't sell to go home and write one that would sell. The
next day he came back with Cry Cry Cry.
Strangely enough Sun released Hey Porter as the A side
and Cry Cry Cry as the B side. Cry Cry Cry peaked at #14 and launched his career.
The Cry Cry Cry chords needed here are G, A, D, E, A7 and Bb.
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Flesh and Blood was a song written by Johnny Cash himself and went on to peak at #1
in 1970 on the country charts.
I play this song in the key of C, whereas Cash recorded the song
in A, which is much lower to accomodate his low vocal range.
My picking break is a bit longer than in the original version.
The other Flesh And Blood chords besides C are C7, F and D7.
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Johnny Cash first released Get Rhythm in 1956 and the song went to the top of the charts.
It was released again in 1969 with some over-dubbing and peaked at #14. Like many earlier Cash
songs, this is a simple 3 chord song.
The Get Rhythm chords I play for this song are D, G and A.
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The Hey Porter chords you'll want for this one are D, E, A7 and G.
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The Hurt chords used here are Am/G, C, D, and an Fmaj7.
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If I Were A Carpenter chords I use are D, C and G. You can use a drop D tuning if you'd like as I do here in this version.
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For this Tom Petty cover by Johnny Cash we'll use the A, D, E and a Gbm chord.
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I play this one using C, C7, F and a G with a bit of a shuffle as we get deeper into this one.
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The chords in this one are Am, Am/G, Am/Gb, E7 and a Dm.
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12. Sunday Morning Coming Down
The Johnny Cash chords I use for this song are G, C, D, Em, G7 and a D7.
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The chords here are G, C and an F.
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The chords you'll want here are G, C and D or D7.
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