Strawberry Cake chords by Johnny Cash

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard tuning


SONG:  STRAWBERRY CAKE
ARTIST: JOHNNY CASH
TAB BY: DON CZARSKI
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       STRAWBERRY CAKE
        JOHNNY CASH

CAPO: 2nd FRET

INTRO: G+G

VERSE:
G+G           D MajorD
In New York city just walking the street
           G+G
Ran out of money had nothing to eat
                C majorC
I stopped at the Plaza, that fancy hotel
    D MajorD
Where you can check in if you're well to do well...

   G+G          D MajorD
The first of July and a hundred and four
                G+G
I stopped at the Plaza's front revolving door
                 C majorC
I stepped in the door and went around for a ride
 D MajorD
Treatin' myself to the cool air inside

   G+G            D MajorD
Then I found myself in a chandeliered room
                G+G
Where people were dining and I hid in the gloom
                C majorC
My hunger pains hurt 'til I thought I would break
     D MajorD                 G+G
When a waiter brought out a big strawberry cake


CHORUS:
G+G     D MajorD     G+G
Oh that strawberry cake
C majorC          G+G
Oh that strawberry cake
  C majorC          G+G
Out in California them berries were grown
   C majorC          G+G
And into this city them berries were flown
   D MajorD           G+G
For making that strawberry cake

VERSE:
 G+G               D MajorD
Then I thought of Oxnard, just north of LA
                 G+G
Where I picked strawberries for many a day
                 C majorC
Hard work with no future for the harvest was done
  D MajorD
And I headed eastward a-travelin' by thumb

   G+G        D MajorD
And nobody wanted me here in this town
               G+G
I felt like a stray dog they all kick around
             C majorC
Them berries reminded me of my bad breaks
   D MajorD                 G+G
I'm hungry and I want that strawberry cake


CHORUS:
G+G        D MajorD     G+G
I deserve that strawberry cake
  C majorC           G+G
Deserve that strawberry cake
  C majorC             G+G
I ran and I grabbed it then out the side door
 C majorC               G+G
Into Central Park through the bushes I tore
 D MajorD           G+G
Holdin' my strawberry cake


VERSE:
  G+G            D MajorD
I look back behind me and what do I see
               G+G
The chef and headwaiter and the maître d
             C majorC
I had a nice helpin' of cake as I ran
  D MajorD
I gobble them berries as fast as I can

     G+G          D MajorD
They're closin' the gap as I slowed down to eat
                   G+G
But the cake brought a new surge of power to my feet
              C majorC
I hid in the bush when the lead I did take
    D MajorD               G+G
And I quietly finished my strawberry cake


CHORUS:
G+G         D MajorD    G+G
I ate all that strawberry cake
   C majorC           G+G
That fine fancy strawberry cake
  C majorC          G+G
Someone at the plaza is without dessert
       C majorC            G+G
But for the first time in days now my belly don't hurt
 D MajorD           G+G
I'm full of strawberry cake

NOTE: THERE ARE TWO VERSIONS I HAVE SEEN JOHNNY CASH
   PLAYING THIS SONG LIVE. ON ONE HE CAPOED AT THE
   2nd FRET AND ON ANOTHER HE CAPOED ON THE 3rd FRET
   BUT USED THE EXACT SAME CHORDS FOR BOTH.

Strawberry Cake chords

Country music legend Johnny Cash released "Strawberry Cake" as a single in 1976.