Rusty Cage Chords, Guitar Tab, and Lyrics by Johnny Cash at CountryTabs

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Johnny Cash - Rusty Cage (Chord)
Submitter: eric_steinmetz (26) on 10/18/03 8 comments Month Views: 736 \| Total Views: 22,616

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Rusty Cage - Recorded by Johnny Cash & Rick Rubbins
as noted, this wqas originally a Soundgarden song.  
Someone please PM me the songwritters and I'll add them.
thanks.


(A5) low to high string 002200

(A5)
You wired me awake 
And hit me with a hand of broken nails 
You tied my lead and pulled my chain 
To watch my blood begin to boil 

              (A5)    (G)  (A5) 
But I'm gonna break 
                   (G)   (A5) 
I'm gonna break my 

I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run 

But I'm gonna break... 
                         (D)        (A5) 
...I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run 


Too cold to start a fire 
I'm burning diesel burning dinosaur bones 
I'll take the river down to still water 
And ride a pack of dogs 

But I'm gonna break... 
But I'm gonna break... 


Riff during last verses: 

   (E) 
E|----------------------| 
B|----------------------| 
G|----------------------| 
D|----------------------| 
A|-2--2-2--2--2-2-------| 
E|-0--0-3--0--0-3-0-3---| 


Hits like a Phillips head into my brain 
It's gonna be too dark to sleep again 
Cutting my teeth on bars and rusty chains 
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run 

When the forest burns along the road 
Like God's eyes in my headlights 
When the dogs are looking for their bones 
And it's raining icepicks on your steel shore 

I'm gonna break 
I'm gonna break my 
                         (D)        (E) 
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run

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I was looking for the song nice work -rimpler \| 10/20/2003
I think this song was written by Soundgarden -guitarsam81 \| 12/30/2003
What is the picking pattern on the A chord?? -steviewonder450 \| 12/30/2003
Great tab. Do you know what the little 3 note riff that starts the song off is? -SMERSH4346 \| 9/7/2004
here's the picking pattern A5 E\|-----------------\| B\|-----------------\| G\|-2------2--------\| D\|-2------2--------\| A\|-----------------\| E\|----0-3----0-3---\| -eflow116 \| 2/10/2005
I submitted that A5 picking pattern in another tab, but some idiot deleted it. I put like a full tab for it, too. Oh, and when it says A5 at the top of the page is \|002200\| it should read as \|OO22XX\| because, the 2 high strings aren't touched. At least not the open B string, because then it wouldn't be an A5. An A5 chord means the root and the fifth only. So at the top of the page, the way they say to play the chord as \|002200\| is wrong. \|0022XX\| don't touch the 2 high strings at all. I can't stress that enough. -macg1 \| 6/17/2005
Johnny or whoever opens up the Em in the last verses when the electric guitar comes in to resolve the riff. Looks like this... pre> eX----------------------X BX----------------------X GX----------------------X D-2--2-2-2--2-2-2-0---- A-2--2-2-2--2-2-2-0---- E-0--0-3-0--0-3-0-0---- repeat, repeat.../pre> Sounds better and is correct. Good day. -FoxMan18 \| 12/29/2005
All Good Comments. Thanks guys. -eric_steinmetz \| 12/29/2005

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