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Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash

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Tuning: Normal.

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*Wait past the third note of the guitar to begin.


   I hear the train a-coming…
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When I was just a baby…
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   Intermezzo
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   I bet there’s rich folks eatin’…
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   Intermezzo
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   Well, if they freed me…
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