Foolish Questions chords by Johnny Cash

Key: A

🎸 Intro:


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🎸 Verse 1:

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Well now you've all been asked foolish questions and I think that you all know
            A                            E
That you're bound to run into them most, most anywhere you go
        A                                 D
And you all know the story of the man you meet on the way
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You say to him, hey how's Trix and you'll listen to him while he say
         A                           D
Say he's just been to the funeral of poor old uncle Ned
        A                                N.C.
And the next question he's gonna ask is, is Ned dead?

🎸 Chorus:

        A                              D
Foolish questions, you might as well reply
                    D                  A                     E
No Ned thought he'd have a funeral and later on some time he die
                    A                             E
You know he is so original that he wanted it that way
        A                                  E
Foolish questions, you'll hear them every day


🎸 Verse 2:

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Then there's the woman that always gives your phone a ring
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She'll talk for two hours about anything
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Especially her bad kin folk goin ruining everything
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You sit there half asleep, brewing, stewing, she says finally
N.C.
Hey, whatcha doin?


🎸 Chorus:

        A                                          D
Foolish questions, you oughta tell her that you're gone
              D          A                   E
Just about an hour ago I thought I heard the phone
   A                                              D
It couldn't have been you though cause I've been asleep
                          A
Why don't you call me sometime
      E         A                         E
Silly questions get a silly answer every time


🎸 Verse 3:

         A                                  D
Then you just get outta the hospital after about a three month stay
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Had every bone in you broken, and you're tryin to make your way
   A                                          D
An old friend steps right up to you and says, hey how's Trix?
       A                                                   N.C.
You've been in the hospital three long months and he says, hey, you been sick?


🎸 Chorus:

        A                                D
Foolish question, nah I like my meals in bed
             D           A         E
Cost ain't a lot and I'm curing up purity good now
                        A               D
Why don't you go break your leg, that attraction there is fine
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Foolish questions get a silly answer every time


🎸 Verse 4:

         A                             D
Well you step into an elevator and you open up the door
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You walk right into the shaft and fall down forty floors
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And when you hit the bottom and you're laying there in the dirt
    A                                               N.C.
The first person that's gonna come along gonna say, you hurt?


🎸 Chorus:

        A                               D
Foolish questions, your dying words are no
                 D              A                  E
I was kinda in a hurry and well the elevator's too slow
                A                  E
I find a save a lot of time, comin down that way
        A                                     E
Foolish questions, yeah you'll hear them everyday


🎸 Outro:

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