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Johnny Cash - Ballad Of Barbra (Chord)
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Ballad of Barbra
INTRO:
D------1/2---0-2----2-1-0---------------|
A---0-3-----3-----3------------0h3-------|
E-3------------------------0-3-----------|
C   	    	    	                                         
In a southern town where I was born
                G      C 
That's where I got my education 
I worked in the fields and I walked in the woods
               G      C 
And I wondered at creation
I recall the sun in a sky of blue
                    G         C
And the smell of green things growin'
And I lived everyday and I lived anyway
             G      C
Anyway the wind was blowin'
But then I heard of a cultured city life
              G        C
Breath-takin' lofty steeples
And the day I called myself a man
                   G     C
I left my land and my people
And I rambled North and I rambled East
               G    C 
And I tested and I tasted 
And a girl or two took me round and round
             G     C 
But always left me wasted
In a world that saw concrete and steel
                 G       C
With nothing' green ever growin'
Where the buildings hide the rising sun
                    G       C
And stop the free wind from blowin'
Where they sleep all day and they wake all night
                G       C
To a world of drink and laughter
I met that girl that I thought would be
               G     C
The one that I was after
SOLO:
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D------1/2---0-2----2-3-3/5-5---0-0-2-----------2----0-2--------------------|
A---0-3-----3-----3---------------------------------3--------2-3-3/5-5-------|
E-3-------------------------------------------------------3------------0-0-3-|

G-------------------|
D------------------|
A-0h3---------------|
E-------------------|


 
 
   C
In a soft blue gown and a formal tux
             G       C
Beneath that lofty steeple
He said do you Barbra take this man
                   G     C
Will you be one of his people
And she said I will and she said I do
                     G        C
And the world looked mighty pretty
And we lived in a fancy downtown flat
                    G       C
Cause she loved the noisy city
Then the days grew cold beneath the yellow sky
                       G        C
And I longed for green things growin'
And I talked of home and my people there
                    G    C
But she'd not agree to goin'

KEY CHANGE
 
E 
Then her hazel eyes turned away from me
                        B7     E
With a look that wasn't very pretty 
And she turned into concrete and steel
                B7      E 
And she said I take the city

KEY CHANGE
    C 
Now the cars go by on the interstate
               G        C
And my pack is on my shoulder
And I'm goin' home where I belong 
            G       C
Much wiser now and older


OUTRO:
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A---0-3-----3-----3------------0h3-------|
E-3------------------------0-3-----------|
 
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