Chords for Johnny Cash - One Piece at a Time (Live In Las Vegas, 1979)
Tempo:
101.25 bpm
Chords used:
E
B
A
Ab
Em
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[Ab] You know, I [A] didn't ever do this, but see, I lived on [B] a cotton farm when I was growing up in Arkansas.
[E] I picked the cotton all my life and plowed and chopped it.
And when I graduated from high school, I told my daddy, I said,
I don't care how tall the cotton gets or how good the picking is, I ain't gonna pick no more.
So I hitchhiked up north to the car factories and I got a job working.
You've seen those 51 Pontiacs in the junk pile?
I made them.
I left Kentucky back in 49, [A] went to Detroit working on assembly line.
[B] The first year they had me putting wheels on [E] Cadillacs.
Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by [A] and sometimes I'd hang my head and cry.
[B] Always wanted me one that was [E] long and black.
Well, one day I devised myself a plan that [A] should be the envy of most any man.
[B] I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my [E] hand.
Now getting caught meant getting fired, but [A] I figured I'd have it all by the time I [B] retired.
Help me a car worth at least a hundred [E] grand.
I'd get it one piece at a time [A] and it wouldn't cost me a dime.
[B] You'll know it's me when I come to [E] your town.
Gonna ride around in style, [A] gonna drive everybody wild.
[B] Cause I'll have me only one there [E] is around.
Well, the very next day when I checked in [A] with my big lunchbox and half of my friends,
[B] I left that day with a lunchbox [E] full of gear.
I never considered myself a thief, but, [A] gee, I wouldn't miss just one little piece.
[B] Especially if I strung it out over [E] several years.
The first day I got me a fuel pump, the [A] next day I got me an engine and a trunk.
[B] Got me a transmission and all [E] the chrome.
Little things I could get in a big lunchbox [A] like nuts and bolts and all the full shocks.
[B] The big stuff I snuck out in my buddy's [E] mobile home.
Well, up to now my plan went alright [A] until we tried to put it all together one night.
[B] And that's when I noticed that something was [E] definitely wrong.
The transmission was a 53 [A] and the motor turned out to be a 73.
[B] When we tried to put in the bolts, all the [E] holes were gone.
So we drilled it out so that it would [A] fit and with a little bit of help from an aid advocate,
[B] had that engine running just [E] like a song.
The headlights was another [A] sight.
We had two on the left and one on the right.
[B] But when we pulled out the switch, all [E] three of them come on.
The back end looked kind of funny [A] too, but we put it together and when we got [B] through,
that's when I noticed that we only had one tail fin.
[E] About that time my wife [A] walked out and I could see in her eyes that she had a [B] doubt.
But she opened the door and said, honey, take me for a spin.
[E] So I spun her.
[Em] Oh, come on baby.
You don't think it'll run, do you?
I'll show you.
[E]
So we went uptown just to get the tags and I headed right on down main [B] track.
You could hear everybody laughing for [E] blocks around.
But up there at the courthouse, they didn't laugh [A] because to type it up, it took the whole staff.
[B] And when they got through, the title weighed [E] 60 pounds.
I got it one piece at a time [A] and it didn't cost me a dime.
[B] You'll know it's me when I come [E] to your town.
Gonna ride around in style, gonna [A] drive everybody wild.
Cause [B] I'll have me only one there is [E] around.
Yeah, Red Ryder, this is the cotton mouth on the Psycho Billy Cadillac.
Come on.
Huh?
Negatory on the cost of this machine there, Red Ryder.
You might say I just, well, I went up to the factory to pick it up.
It's cheaper that way.
What, my list?
Well, it's been sitting here in the weeds and grass all these years.
The highway patrol asked me that and the license and the title says that it's a 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, [A] 54, 55, 56, [B] 57, 58, 59 [E] automobile.
It's a 60, 61, 62, 63, [A] 64, 65, 66, [B] 67, 68.
[E]
[E] I picked the cotton all my life and plowed and chopped it.
And when I graduated from high school, I told my daddy, I said,
I don't care how tall the cotton gets or how good the picking is, I ain't gonna pick no more.
So I hitchhiked up north to the car factories and I got a job working.
You've seen those 51 Pontiacs in the junk pile?
I made them.
I left Kentucky back in 49, [A] went to Detroit working on assembly line.
[B] The first year they had me putting wheels on [E] Cadillacs.
Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by [A] and sometimes I'd hang my head and cry.
[B] Always wanted me one that was [E] long and black.
Well, one day I devised myself a plan that [A] should be the envy of most any man.
[B] I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my [E] hand.
Now getting caught meant getting fired, but [A] I figured I'd have it all by the time I [B] retired.
Help me a car worth at least a hundred [E] grand.
I'd get it one piece at a time [A] and it wouldn't cost me a dime.
[B] You'll know it's me when I come to [E] your town.
Gonna ride around in style, [A] gonna drive everybody wild.
[B] Cause I'll have me only one there [E] is around.
Well, the very next day when I checked in [A] with my big lunchbox and half of my friends,
[B] I left that day with a lunchbox [E] full of gear.
I never considered myself a thief, but, [A] gee, I wouldn't miss just one little piece.
[B] Especially if I strung it out over [E] several years.
The first day I got me a fuel pump, the [A] next day I got me an engine and a trunk.
[B] Got me a transmission and all [E] the chrome.
Little things I could get in a big lunchbox [A] like nuts and bolts and all the full shocks.
[B] The big stuff I snuck out in my buddy's [E] mobile home.
Well, up to now my plan went alright [A] until we tried to put it all together one night.
[B] And that's when I noticed that something was [E] definitely wrong.
The transmission was a 53 [A] and the motor turned out to be a 73.
[B] When we tried to put in the bolts, all the [E] holes were gone.
So we drilled it out so that it would [A] fit and with a little bit of help from an aid advocate,
[B] had that engine running just [E] like a song.
The headlights was another [A] sight.
We had two on the left and one on the right.
[B] But when we pulled out the switch, all [E] three of them come on.
The back end looked kind of funny [A] too, but we put it together and when we got [B] through,
that's when I noticed that we only had one tail fin.
[E] About that time my wife [A] walked out and I could see in her eyes that she had a [B] doubt.
But she opened the door and said, honey, take me for a spin.
[E] So I spun her.
[Em] Oh, come on baby.
You don't think it'll run, do you?
I'll show you.
[E]
So we went uptown just to get the tags and I headed right on down main [B] track.
You could hear everybody laughing for [E] blocks around.
But up there at the courthouse, they didn't laugh [A] because to type it up, it took the whole staff.
[B] And when they got through, the title weighed [E] 60 pounds.
I got it one piece at a time [A] and it didn't cost me a dime.
[B] You'll know it's me when I come [E] to your town.
Gonna ride around in style, gonna [A] drive everybody wild.
Cause [B] I'll have me only one there is [E] around.
Yeah, Red Ryder, this is the cotton mouth on the Psycho Billy Cadillac.
Come on.
Huh?
Negatory on the cost of this machine there, Red Ryder.
You might say I just, well, I went up to the factory to pick it up.
It's cheaper that way.
What, my list?
Well, it's been sitting here in the weeds and grass all these years.
The highway patrol asked me that and the license and the title says that it's a 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, [A] 54, 55, 56, [B] 57, 58, 59 [E] automobile.
It's a 60, 61, 62, 63, [A] 64, 65, 66, [B] 67, 68.
[E]
Key:
E
B
A
Ab
Em
E
B
A
_ _ [Ab] You know, I [A] didn't ever do this, but see, I lived on [B] a cotton farm when I was growing up in Arkansas.
[E] I picked the cotton all my life and plowed and chopped it.
And when I graduated from high school, I told my daddy, I said,
I don't care how tall the cotton gets or how good the picking is, I ain't gonna pick no more.
_ So I hitchhiked up north to the car factories and I got a job working.
You've seen those 51 Pontiacs in the junk pile?
I made them.
_ _ I left Kentucky back in 49, [A] went to Detroit working on assembly line.
[B] The first year they had me putting wheels on [E] Cadillacs.
_ Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by [A] and sometimes I'd hang my head and cry.
[B] Always wanted me one that was [E] long and black.
Well, one day I devised myself a plan that [A] should be the envy of most any man.
[B] I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my [E] hand.
_ Now getting caught meant getting fired, but [A] I figured I'd have it all by the time I [B] retired.
Help me a car worth at least a hundred [E] grand.
_ I'd get it one piece at a time [A] and it wouldn't cost me a dime.
[B] You'll know it's me when I come to [E] your town.
_ _ Gonna ride around in style, [A] gonna drive everybody wild.
[B] Cause I'll have me only one there [E] is around.
_ Well, the very next day when I checked in [A] with my big lunchbox and half of my friends,
[B] I left that day with a lunchbox [E] full of gear.
_ I never considered myself a thief, but, [A] gee, I wouldn't miss just one little piece.
[B] Especially if I strung it out over [E] several years.
_ _ The first day I got me a fuel pump, the [A] next day I got me an engine and a trunk.
[B] Got me a transmission and all [E] the chrome.
_ _ Little things I could get in a big lunchbox [A] like nuts and bolts and all the full shocks.
[B] The big stuff I snuck out in my buddy's [E] mobile home.
_ _ Well, up to now my plan went alright [A] until we tried to put it all together one night.
[B] And that's when I noticed that something was [E] definitely wrong.
_ The transmission was a 53 [A] and the motor turned out to be a 73.
[B] When we tried to put in the bolts, all the [E] holes were gone.
So we drilled it out so that it would [A] fit and with a little bit of help from an aid advocate,
[B] had that engine running just [E] like a song.
_ The headlights was another [A] sight.
We had two on the left and one on the right.
[B] But when we pulled out the switch, all [E] three of them come on.
_ The back end looked kind of funny [A] too, but we put it together and when we got [B] through,
that's when I noticed that we only had one tail fin.
[E] _ About that time my wife [A] walked out and I could see in her eyes that she had a [B] doubt.
But she opened the door and said, honey, take me for a spin.
_ [E] _ So I spun her. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] Oh, come on baby.
You don't think it'll run, do you?
I'll show you.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So we went uptown just to get the tags and I headed right on down main [B] track.
You could hear everybody laughing for [E] blocks around.
But up there at the courthouse, they didn't laugh [A] because to type it up, it took the whole staff.
[B] And when they got through, the title weighed [E] 60 pounds.
I got it one piece at a time [A] and it didn't cost me a dime.
[B] You'll know it's me when I come [E] to your town.
_ Gonna ride around in style, gonna [A] drive everybody wild.
Cause [B] I'll have me only one there is [E] around. _ _ _
_ _ Yeah, Red Ryder, this is the cotton mouth on the Psycho Billy Cadillac.
Come on.
Huh? _ _ _
_ Negatory on the cost of this machine there, Red Ryder.
You might say I just, _ well, I went up to the factory to pick it up.
It's cheaper that way. _ _ _ _ _
What, my list?
Well, it's been sitting here in the weeds and grass all these years.
_ The highway patrol asked me that and the license and the title says that it's a 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, [A] 54, 55, 56, [B] 57, 58, 59 [E] automobile.
_ _ It's a 60, 61, 62, 63, [A] 64, 65, 66, [B] 67, 68. _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] I picked the cotton all my life and plowed and chopped it.
And when I graduated from high school, I told my daddy, I said,
I don't care how tall the cotton gets or how good the picking is, I ain't gonna pick no more.
_ So I hitchhiked up north to the car factories and I got a job working.
You've seen those 51 Pontiacs in the junk pile?
I made them.
_ _ I left Kentucky back in 49, [A] went to Detroit working on assembly line.
[B] The first year they had me putting wheels on [E] Cadillacs.
_ Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by [A] and sometimes I'd hang my head and cry.
[B] Always wanted me one that was [E] long and black.
Well, one day I devised myself a plan that [A] should be the envy of most any man.
[B] I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my [E] hand.
_ Now getting caught meant getting fired, but [A] I figured I'd have it all by the time I [B] retired.
Help me a car worth at least a hundred [E] grand.
_ I'd get it one piece at a time [A] and it wouldn't cost me a dime.
[B] You'll know it's me when I come to [E] your town.
_ _ Gonna ride around in style, [A] gonna drive everybody wild.
[B] Cause I'll have me only one there [E] is around.
_ Well, the very next day when I checked in [A] with my big lunchbox and half of my friends,
[B] I left that day with a lunchbox [E] full of gear.
_ I never considered myself a thief, but, [A] gee, I wouldn't miss just one little piece.
[B] Especially if I strung it out over [E] several years.
_ _ The first day I got me a fuel pump, the [A] next day I got me an engine and a trunk.
[B] Got me a transmission and all [E] the chrome.
_ _ Little things I could get in a big lunchbox [A] like nuts and bolts and all the full shocks.
[B] The big stuff I snuck out in my buddy's [E] mobile home.
_ _ Well, up to now my plan went alright [A] until we tried to put it all together one night.
[B] And that's when I noticed that something was [E] definitely wrong.
_ The transmission was a 53 [A] and the motor turned out to be a 73.
[B] When we tried to put in the bolts, all the [E] holes were gone.
So we drilled it out so that it would [A] fit and with a little bit of help from an aid advocate,
[B] had that engine running just [E] like a song.
_ The headlights was another [A] sight.
We had two on the left and one on the right.
[B] But when we pulled out the switch, all [E] three of them come on.
_ The back end looked kind of funny [A] too, but we put it together and when we got [B] through,
that's when I noticed that we only had one tail fin.
[E] _ About that time my wife [A] walked out and I could see in her eyes that she had a [B] doubt.
But she opened the door and said, honey, take me for a spin.
_ [E] _ So I spun her. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] Oh, come on baby.
You don't think it'll run, do you?
I'll show you.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So we went uptown just to get the tags and I headed right on down main [B] track.
You could hear everybody laughing for [E] blocks around.
But up there at the courthouse, they didn't laugh [A] because to type it up, it took the whole staff.
[B] And when they got through, the title weighed [E] 60 pounds.
I got it one piece at a time [A] and it didn't cost me a dime.
[B] You'll know it's me when I come [E] to your town.
_ Gonna ride around in style, gonna [A] drive everybody wild.
Cause [B] I'll have me only one there is [E] around. _ _ _
_ _ Yeah, Red Ryder, this is the cotton mouth on the Psycho Billy Cadillac.
Come on.
Huh? _ _ _
_ Negatory on the cost of this machine there, Red Ryder.
You might say I just, _ well, I went up to the factory to pick it up.
It's cheaper that way. _ _ _ _ _
What, my list?
Well, it's been sitting here in the weeds and grass all these years.
_ The highway patrol asked me that and the license and the title says that it's a 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, [A] 54, 55, 56, [B] 57, 58, 59 [E] automobile.
_ _ It's a 60, 61, 62, 63, [A] 64, 65, 66, [B] 67, 68. _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _