Chords for Songwriters to Soundmen - Marty Stuart Performing "Dark Bird" (Tribute to Johnny Cash)
Tempo:
64.9 bpm
Chords used:
B
E
Bm
F#
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[E] [B] [N] Somebody once asked the great country songwriter Harlan Howard to explain
country music and Harlan said well it's three chords in the truth and I thought
that was an eloquent description.
Country music is a simple form of music but it
really is a reflection of us as American people when it does its job.
If you check
back into the lyrics of Hank Williams or Jimmy Rogers and on and on you know
depending upon the time it was written and performed in it really is a
reflection of the American spirit because it talks about our triumphs, our
tragedies, our victories, our struggles, our heartaches, our pains and you know and
our hope and our redemption all kind of gets wrapped up in those three minute
little B movies called country songs sometimes and the best country songs in
my opinion are the kind that have been lived through by life's experience and
survived at whatever the cost and the first two records that I ever had in my
life that made [E] me fall in love with [N] country music was the fabulous Johnny
Cash and Flattin' Scruggs Greatest Hits, 1963 down in Mississippi.
Now this is
when the Beatles were really exploding on the face of the earth and years later
I got to have lunch with Ringo and we were talking about our musical
influences he says well who were yours and I told him Lester Flattin, Earl
Scruggs and Johnny Cash people like that he said did you listen to the Beatles
I said well of course if you lived on planet earth you had to listen to the
Beatles but I had my Beatles record for one week and I gave it away
he said don't worry about it the rest of the world kept theirs but those records
followed me deep into my heart and once again coming from Mississippi we were
touched by the music of the blues from the Delta, rock and roll from Memphis,
Dixieland came up from New Orleans, gospel music was everywhere but it was
that 650 WSM beam that came at me from Nashville that 50,000 watt greeting card
that kind of drew me because that's what touched my [B] heart the deepest and as time
went on the only two jobs ever had in my life was with Lester Flatt and Johnny
Cash and funny thing Johnny Cash and June Carter wound up being our
neighbors next-door neighbors Connie and I live next door to them in
Hendersonville Tennessee and I miss him every single day and that's the truth
and so after he passed away I tried to write a song to make me feel better
about losing my old friend but it never would come out so I just gave up on it
and between our homes there's a beautiful piece of ground where in the
1960s Roy Orbison had a house and a tragic event happened there one night
Roy's had two boys that were playing with a cigarette lighter and hairspray
and it caught on fire and it burned the house to the ground and took the boys
lives so he never wanted to live there again so John bought the property from
Roy and promised him he had never built anything there but he would only plant
living things so his version of living things was fruit trees so he planted
apple trees pear trees pecan trees cherry trees fig bushes and it gave life
back to the earth and after he passed away Connie and I bought that piece of
ground from John Carter Cash and just left it as is we just tended it now it's
kind of a beautiful sanctuary but in the in the course of the springtime the
crows love coming to visit those fruit trees and pick the fruit and I don't
know about you guys but I love crows because they're really weird birds and
they dress like Johnny Cash and this crow was picking fruit one day and it
[E] inspired me and the next morning I went home and got up I got up the next
morning wrote a wrote a song for my old friend I call Roseanne Cash in New York
City us and I couldn't even get it out because it stuck right there to my
throat I said but this is my song for your [B] papa and back to what Harlan said
three chords in the [Bm] truth it's called dark bird [B]
on a [Bm] cool September morning
and the fall of 203 a crier from Jerusalem brought the news to me [E] [F#] [E] his
words were sharp and dreaded they made a lonesome sound they [Bm] snapped my heart and
two like a stick stepped on the ground [E] [F#] well I cried and cried and cried but the
cutting of the pain that I quietly said goodbye so long [B] in Jesus name [A] dark bird
[B] watch you fly [A] dark bird to another [F#] sky and how but you were a sight [E] when you
hit that cloud of love [B] [Bm] and flew out the other side in [B] the form of a dove dark
dark bird
[G#m]
country music and Harlan said well it's three chords in the truth and I thought
that was an eloquent description.
Country music is a simple form of music but it
really is a reflection of us as American people when it does its job.
If you check
back into the lyrics of Hank Williams or Jimmy Rogers and on and on you know
depending upon the time it was written and performed in it really is a
reflection of the American spirit because it talks about our triumphs, our
tragedies, our victories, our struggles, our heartaches, our pains and you know and
our hope and our redemption all kind of gets wrapped up in those three minute
little B movies called country songs sometimes and the best country songs in
my opinion are the kind that have been lived through by life's experience and
survived at whatever the cost and the first two records that I ever had in my
life that made [E] me fall in love with [N] country music was the fabulous Johnny
Cash and Flattin' Scruggs Greatest Hits, 1963 down in Mississippi.
Now this is
when the Beatles were really exploding on the face of the earth and years later
I got to have lunch with Ringo and we were talking about our musical
influences he says well who were yours and I told him Lester Flattin, Earl
Scruggs and Johnny Cash people like that he said did you listen to the Beatles
I said well of course if you lived on planet earth you had to listen to the
Beatles but I had my Beatles record for one week and I gave it away
he said don't worry about it the rest of the world kept theirs but those records
followed me deep into my heart and once again coming from Mississippi we were
touched by the music of the blues from the Delta, rock and roll from Memphis,
Dixieland came up from New Orleans, gospel music was everywhere but it was
that 650 WSM beam that came at me from Nashville that 50,000 watt greeting card
that kind of drew me because that's what touched my [B] heart the deepest and as time
went on the only two jobs ever had in my life was with Lester Flatt and Johnny
Cash and funny thing Johnny Cash and June Carter wound up being our
neighbors next-door neighbors Connie and I live next door to them in
Hendersonville Tennessee and I miss him every single day and that's the truth
and so after he passed away I tried to write a song to make me feel better
about losing my old friend but it never would come out so I just gave up on it
and between our homes there's a beautiful piece of ground where in the
1960s Roy Orbison had a house and a tragic event happened there one night
Roy's had two boys that were playing with a cigarette lighter and hairspray
and it caught on fire and it burned the house to the ground and took the boys
lives so he never wanted to live there again so John bought the property from
Roy and promised him he had never built anything there but he would only plant
living things so his version of living things was fruit trees so he planted
apple trees pear trees pecan trees cherry trees fig bushes and it gave life
back to the earth and after he passed away Connie and I bought that piece of
ground from John Carter Cash and just left it as is we just tended it now it's
kind of a beautiful sanctuary but in the in the course of the springtime the
crows love coming to visit those fruit trees and pick the fruit and I don't
know about you guys but I love crows because they're really weird birds and
they dress like Johnny Cash and this crow was picking fruit one day and it
[E] inspired me and the next morning I went home and got up I got up the next
morning wrote a wrote a song for my old friend I call Roseanne Cash in New York
City us and I couldn't even get it out because it stuck right there to my
throat I said but this is my song for your [B] papa and back to what Harlan said
three chords in the [Bm] truth it's called dark bird [B]
on a [Bm] cool September morning
and the fall of 203 a crier from Jerusalem brought the news to me [E] [F#] [E] his
words were sharp and dreaded they made a lonesome sound they [Bm] snapped my heart and
two like a stick stepped on the ground [E] [F#] well I cried and cried and cried but the
cutting of the pain that I quietly said goodbye so long [B] in Jesus name [A] dark bird
[B] watch you fly [A] dark bird to another [F#] sky and how but you were a sight [E] when you
hit that cloud of love [B] [Bm] and flew out the other side in [B] the form of a dove dark
dark bird
[G#m]
Key:
B
E
Bm
F#
A
B
E
Bm
_ _ [E] _ [B] _ [N] Somebody once asked the great country songwriter Harlan Howard to explain
country music and Harlan said well it's three chords in the truth and I thought
that was an eloquent description.
Country music is a simple form of music but it
really is a reflection of us as American people when it does its job.
If you check
back into the lyrics of Hank Williams or Jimmy Rogers and on and on you know
depending upon the time it was written and performed in it really is a
reflection of the American spirit because it talks about our triumphs, our
tragedies, our victories, our struggles, our heartaches, our pains and you know and
our hope and our redemption all kind of gets wrapped up in those three minute
little B movies called country songs sometimes and the best country songs in
my opinion are the kind that have been lived through by life's experience and
survived at whatever the cost and the first two records that I ever had in my
life that made [E] me fall in love with [N] country music was the fabulous Johnny
Cash and Flattin' Scruggs Greatest Hits, 1963 down in Mississippi.
Now this is
when the Beatles were really exploding on the face of the earth and years later
I got to have lunch with Ringo and we were talking about our musical
influences he says well who were yours and I told him Lester Flattin, Earl
Scruggs and Johnny Cash people like that he said did you listen to the Beatles
I said well of course if you lived on planet earth you had to listen to the
Beatles but I had my Beatles record for one week and I gave it away
he said don't worry about it the rest of the world kept theirs but those records
followed me deep into my heart and once again coming from Mississippi we were
touched by the music of the blues from the Delta, rock and roll from Memphis,
Dixieland came up from New Orleans, gospel music was everywhere but it was
that 650 WSM beam that came at me from Nashville that 50,000 watt greeting card
that kind of drew me because that's what touched my [B] heart the deepest and as time
went on the only two jobs ever had in my life was with Lester Flatt and Johnny
Cash and funny thing Johnny Cash and June Carter wound up being our
neighbors next-door neighbors Connie and I live next door to them in
Hendersonville Tennessee and I miss him every single day and that's the truth
and so after he passed away I tried to write a song to make me feel better
about losing my old friend but it never would come out so I just gave up on it
and between our homes there's a beautiful piece of ground where in the
1960s Roy Orbison had a house and a tragic event happened there one night
Roy's had two boys that were playing with a cigarette lighter and hairspray
and it caught on fire and it burned the house to the ground and took the boys
lives so he never wanted to live there again so John bought the property from
Roy and promised him he had never built anything there but he would only plant
living things so his version of living things was fruit trees so he planted
apple trees pear trees pecan trees cherry trees fig bushes and it gave life
back to the earth and after he passed away Connie and I bought that piece of
ground from John Carter Cash and just left it as is we just tended it now it's
kind of a beautiful sanctuary but in the in the course of the springtime the
crows love coming to visit those fruit trees and pick the fruit and I don't
know about you guys but I love crows because they're really weird birds and
they dress like Johnny Cash _ and this crow was picking fruit one day and it
[E] inspired me and the next morning I went home and got up I got up the next
morning wrote a wrote a song for my old friend I call Roseanne Cash in New York
City us and I couldn't even get it out because it stuck right there to my
throat I said but this is my song for your [B] papa and back to what Harlan said
three chords in the [Bm] truth it's called dark bird [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ on a [Bm] cool September morning
and the fall of 203 a crier from Jerusalem brought the news to me _ [E] _ [F#] _ [E] his
words were sharp and dreaded they made a lonesome sound they _ [Bm] snapped my heart and
two like a stick stepped on the ground [E] _ [F#] _ well I cried and cried and cried but the
cutting of the pain that I quietly said goodbye so long [B] in Jesus name [A] dark bird
[B] watch you fly [A] dark bird to another [F#] sky and how but you were a sight [E] when you
hit that cloud of love _ [B] _ [Bm] and flew out the other side in [B] the form of a dove dark
dark bird
[G#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
country music and Harlan said well it's three chords in the truth and I thought
that was an eloquent description.
Country music is a simple form of music but it
really is a reflection of us as American people when it does its job.
If you check
back into the lyrics of Hank Williams or Jimmy Rogers and on and on you know
depending upon the time it was written and performed in it really is a
reflection of the American spirit because it talks about our triumphs, our
tragedies, our victories, our struggles, our heartaches, our pains and you know and
our hope and our redemption all kind of gets wrapped up in those three minute
little B movies called country songs sometimes and the best country songs in
my opinion are the kind that have been lived through by life's experience and
survived at whatever the cost and the first two records that I ever had in my
life that made [E] me fall in love with [N] country music was the fabulous Johnny
Cash and Flattin' Scruggs Greatest Hits, 1963 down in Mississippi.
Now this is
when the Beatles were really exploding on the face of the earth and years later
I got to have lunch with Ringo and we were talking about our musical
influences he says well who were yours and I told him Lester Flattin, Earl
Scruggs and Johnny Cash people like that he said did you listen to the Beatles
I said well of course if you lived on planet earth you had to listen to the
Beatles but I had my Beatles record for one week and I gave it away
he said don't worry about it the rest of the world kept theirs but those records
followed me deep into my heart and once again coming from Mississippi we were
touched by the music of the blues from the Delta, rock and roll from Memphis,
Dixieland came up from New Orleans, gospel music was everywhere but it was
that 650 WSM beam that came at me from Nashville that 50,000 watt greeting card
that kind of drew me because that's what touched my [B] heart the deepest and as time
went on the only two jobs ever had in my life was with Lester Flatt and Johnny
Cash and funny thing Johnny Cash and June Carter wound up being our
neighbors next-door neighbors Connie and I live next door to them in
Hendersonville Tennessee and I miss him every single day and that's the truth
and so after he passed away I tried to write a song to make me feel better
about losing my old friend but it never would come out so I just gave up on it
and between our homes there's a beautiful piece of ground where in the
1960s Roy Orbison had a house and a tragic event happened there one night
Roy's had two boys that were playing with a cigarette lighter and hairspray
and it caught on fire and it burned the house to the ground and took the boys
lives so he never wanted to live there again so John bought the property from
Roy and promised him he had never built anything there but he would only plant
living things so his version of living things was fruit trees so he planted
apple trees pear trees pecan trees cherry trees fig bushes and it gave life
back to the earth and after he passed away Connie and I bought that piece of
ground from John Carter Cash and just left it as is we just tended it now it's
kind of a beautiful sanctuary but in the in the course of the springtime the
crows love coming to visit those fruit trees and pick the fruit and I don't
know about you guys but I love crows because they're really weird birds and
they dress like Johnny Cash _ and this crow was picking fruit one day and it
[E] inspired me and the next morning I went home and got up I got up the next
morning wrote a wrote a song for my old friend I call Roseanne Cash in New York
City us and I couldn't even get it out because it stuck right there to my
throat I said but this is my song for your [B] papa and back to what Harlan said
three chords in the [Bm] truth it's called dark bird [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ on a [Bm] cool September morning
and the fall of 203 a crier from Jerusalem brought the news to me _ [E] _ [F#] _ [E] his
words were sharp and dreaded they made a lonesome sound they _ [Bm] snapped my heart and
two like a stick stepped on the ground [E] _ [F#] _ well I cried and cried and cried but the
cutting of the pain that I quietly said goodbye so long [B] in Jesus name [A] dark bird
[B] watch you fly [A] dark bird to another [F#] sky and how but you were a sight [E] when you
hit that cloud of love _ [B] _ [Bm] and flew out the other side in [B] the form of a dove dark
dark bird
[G#m] _ _ _ _ _ _