Joshua Gone Barbados chords by Johnny Cash

Chords with lyrics

Key: A augmentedA

🎸 Intro:

| A augmentedA   | A augmentedA   | A augmentedA   | D MajorD   |
| E/A  | A augmentedA   | D MajorD   | A augmentedA   |



🎸 Verse 1:
A augmentedA           A augmentedA   A augmentedA        D MajorD
 Cane standin' in the fields gettin' old and red
E/A       A augmentedA      D MajorD        A augmentedA
Lot of misery in Georgetown, dreamin' layin' dead
A augmentedA         A augmentedA           A augmentedA        D MajorD
Joshua head of the government, he said "Strike for better pay"
E/A        A augmentedA      D MajorD      A augmentedA
 Cane cutters are strikin' but Joshua gone away

🎸 Chorus:
A augmentedA       A augmentedA    A augmentedA        D MajorD
Joshua gone Barbados, stayin' in a big hotel
E/A     A augmentedA      D MajorD         A augmentedA   A augmentedA
People on St Vincent got many sad tales to tell


🎸 Verse 2:
  A augmentedA             A augmentedA         A augmentedA         D MajorD
The sugar mill owner told the strikers, "I don't need you to cut my cane
E/A            A augmentedA       D MajorD        A augmentedA
Bring me another bunch of fellas, your strike be all in vain"
A augmentedA           A augmentedA    A augmentedA          D MajorD
 Get a bunch of tough fellas, bring 'em from Zion Hill
E/A          A augmentedA      D MajorD          A augmentedA   A augmentedA
Bring 'em in a bus to Georgetown, know somebody could kill


🎸 Verse 3:
A augmentedA          A augmentedA    A augmentedA           D MajorD
Sunny Child the overseer
I swear he's an ignorant man
E/A         A augmentedA      D MajorD       A augmentedA
Walkin' through the canefields, pistol in his hand


🎸 Chorus:
A augmentedA       A augmentedA   A augmentedA         D MajorD
Joshua gone Barbados, just like he don't know
E/A      A augmentedA   D MajorD        A augmentedA
People on the island got no place to go

🎸 Instrumental:
| E/A  | A augmentedA   | D MajorD   | A augmentedA   |


🎸 Verse 4:
A augmentedA        A augmentedA    A augmentedA           D MajorD
Police givin' protection, new fellas cuttin' the cane
 E/A       A augmentedA     D MajorD        A augmentedA
Strikers can't do nothin', strike be all in vain
A augmentedA            A augmentedA    A augmentedA        D MajorD
Sunny Child cussed the strikers, wave his pistol round
    E/A          A augmentedA    D MajorD        A augmentedA   A augmentedA
They're beatin' Sunny with the cutlers, beat him to the ground


🎸 Verse 5:
     A augmentedA        A augmentedA          A augmentedA         D MajorD
There's a lot of misery in Georgetown, you can hear all the women bawl
E/A      A augmentedA   D MajorD        A augmentedA
Joshua gone Barbados, he don't care at all
A augmentedA          A augmentedA    A augmentedA        D MajorD
Cane standin' in the fields, gettin' old and red
E/A        A augmentedA     D MajorD       A augmentedA
Sunny Child in the hospital, pistol on his bed


🎸 Instrumental:
| A augmentedA   | A augmentedA   | A augmentedA   | D MajorD   |
| E/A  | A augmentedA   | D MajorD   | A augmentedA   |
| A augmentedA   | A augmentedA   | A augmentedA   | D MajorD   |
| E/A  | A augmentedA   | D MajorD   | A augmentedA   |


🎸 Verse 6:
 A augmentedA         A augmentedA       A augmentedA     D MajorD
I wish I could go to England
Trinidad or Curaçao
E/A      A augmentedA   D MajorD        A augmentedA
People on the island got no place to go


🎸 Chorus:
A augmentedA       A augmentedA    A augmentedA        D MajorD
Joshua gone Barbados, stayin' in a big hotel
E/A     A augmentedA      D MajorD         A augmentedA
People on St Vincent got many sad tales to tell


🎸 Outro:
| A augmentedA   | A augmentedA   | A augmentedA   | D MajorD   |
| E/A  | A augmentedA   | D MajorD E MajorE  | A augmentedA   |