Chords for Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash (Easy Ukulele Tutorial)

_ _ _ Hi there, thanks very much for tuning in.
Today I'd like to teach and try and play a
song by Johnny Cash called Folsom Prison Blues.
Fantastic song, great crowd pleaser at a party
or should you find yourself entertaining some prisoners, it's doubly good.
The strumming
pattern is down, down up, up, down up.
I'm going to stick with that, it works, it's fun,
it's not too hard.
The chords couldn't be easier.
You have a C chord, a C7 for which
you stay in the same string and slide [B] your finger up to the first fret.
A little bit
eerie, shows some [Fm] anticipation.
[C] Kicks in then to an F [F] chord and finishes on a [G] G.
Shock [C] and
handy four chords.
It's a good song to play, _ four verses, they just follow through.
During
the third and the fourth verse there should be some funky solo, I'm afraid I'm not there
yet so when you do get there, please video yourself and show me.
Thanks very much. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I hear the train a comin' It's a road around the bend
I ain't seen the sunshine yet I don't know [F] when I'm stuck in Folsom Prison
And time keeps [C] raggin' on [G] But that train that keeps a-rollin'
All down to [C] San Antone When _ _ _ I was just a baby
My mama told me, son, always be a good boy You'll never play with guns
[F] But I shot a man in Reno _ Just to watch [C] him die
And [G] when I hear the lonesome whistle I hang my head [C] and cry _ _ _ _
_ I bet the rich folks eatin' in a fancy dinin' car
They're probably drinkin' coffee and smokin' big cigars
[F] Well I know I had a shot at it I know I can't [C] be free
But [G] those people keep a-movin' And that's what [C] tortures me
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Well they'd free me from this prison If that railroad train wasn't mine
I bet I'd move it on a little further down the [F] line
I bet the rich folks in Folsom Prison _ That's where I'd [C] want to stay
_ And [G] I'd let that lonesome whistle _ blow my [C] blues away _ _ _
There you go, it's the best I can do.
I ain't no Johnny Cash.
But you know what?
It's a really, really good, fun song to play.
_ Especially if you people join in and have a bit of a sing-song.
Maybe after a few whiskeys or something like that.
Not that I condone such things, but it could be fun.
OK, I'm going to go through it.
It's pretty straightforward.
The strumming pattern, as I said, starts in C.
I think I do four sets of the strumming pattern in the intro
and in-between each of the verses.
So it's_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I hear the train a-comin' It's rollin' round the bend
I see some shanties I _ don't know when
So I'm just kicking.
Just follow the lyrics on screen.
Print off the lyrics and chords from my website, www.uk.ie
I'd print them.
I'd actually laminate them if I was going to have a party
because I can't remember these.
I can barely play them looking at them, so I certainly need them printed out.
But that's your choice.
And just change as you go.
It's the strumming pattern right the way through. OK?
Hear the train a-comin' It's rollin' round the bend
I see some shanties I don't know when
[F] I'm F double-voiced and driven
_ Time keeps dragging [C] speed
But [G] that G keeps on rollin'
On down to seven [C] speed
OK?
[F#] That's the way it goes.
You will see in-between verses three and four,
so [A#] it's in-between the last two verses,
what I do, in absence of a fancy solo or some soloist beside me,
all I do is, in my head, I'm singing one of the verses
and I'm just playing the chords as if I was singing it.
So I'm _ basically_
_ You probably didn't notice, but in my head I was going
Hear the train a-comin' It's rollin' round the bend _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ Hear [G] the train a-comin' It's rollin' round the bend
On down to [C] seven speed
In the [C] absence of a solo, you know, it's a little bit musical.
It kind of works and, _ you know, yeah.
It just makes it a little bit more fun.
And it stretches out the song too.
It gives you a bit more volume and content.
OK?
That's it.
Enjoy it.
It's a really, really good, fun song to play.
Thanks very much.
Bye. _ _ _ _ _ _