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/ Johnny Cash / American Recordings (1994) / Bird on a Wire guitar tab

Bird on a Wire     3/4     Johnny Cash
Standard Tuning No Capo 			Transcribed by Ken Lee
Intro:6 Bars				comments or corrections to kandvlee@shaw.ca

          / E     /         / B      / /
Like a / Bird, / on a / Wire, / /
          / E              /              / A       /
Like a / drunk, in a / Midnight / Choir. /
         / E     /                 / B      /        / E     / / /
I have / trie-, / ed - in my / way, / - to be / free, / / /
          / E  /            / B        /
Like a / fi - / sh on a / hook, /
           / A                   /                     /          /
Like a / knight in some / old fashioned / book, /
         / E       /             / B          /
I have / saved / - all my / ribbons, /
      / E       / / /
For / Thee, / / / and

  / A /        /          /               / E      / / /
If / I, /  - -if / I have / been un - / kind, / / /
        / A                 /             / B   / / /
I just / hope you will / let it go / by, / / /  and
   / A /       /           /               / E      / / /
If / I,  / - - if / I have / been un - / true, / / /
  / A            /         /           /             / B     / / /
I / hope you / know / it was / never to / you. / / /

           / E     /             / B      /
Like a / baby / - - still - / born, /
           / E      /            / A      /
Like a / beast / with his / horn, /
          / E    /         / B
I have / torn / every / one,
        / B                   / E    / / /
Who / reached out to / me, / / /

        / E      /                 / B      /
But I / swe - / ar, by this / song, / and
     / E         /                   / A        /
By / all, that / I have done / wrong, /
E /         /       /    /B        /        / E      / / /
I'll / ma - / ake / it / all up / - - to / thee. / / /

            / A                /
I saw a / young man, / leaning,
A        /              / E        / / /
On his / wooden / crutch, / / /
A             /                / / /
He called / out to me, / / /
         / A             / B           / / /
"Don't / ask for so / much.", / / / and
    / A       /             /
A / young / woman / leaning,
A         / E            /         / / /
In / her / darkened / door, / / /
               / A               / / /
She cried / out to me, / / /
          / A               / B          / / /
"Why / not ask for / more?" / / /

Repeat the first verse


Johnny Cash albums
2002 American IV: The Man Comes Around
2000 American III: Solitary Man
1999 Just as I Am
1996 Unchained
1994 American Recordings
1979 A Boy Named Sue
American Recordings tabs
01Delia's Gone tabbass tab
02Let the Train Blow the Whistle tabbass tab
03The Beast in Me tabbass tab
04Drive On tabbass tab
05Why Me Lord? tabbass tab
06Thirteen tabbass tab
07Oh, Bury Me Not (Introduction: A Cowboy's Prayer) tabbass tab
08Bird on a Wire tabbass tab
10Down There by the Train tabbass tab
11Redemption tabbass tab
12Like a Soldier tabbass tab
13The Man Who Couldn't Cry (live) tabbass tab

 

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