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Version 1 Version 2 Version 3 Version 4 Version 5Johnny Cash - I Got Stripes (Live at Folsom Prison version) Tabbed by --Art CAPO 1 -- to match the Folsom Prison recording I have (Cash sometimes played the same song up or down half step on different recordings. --.-/watch?ds49aR0LRpCv7siI) Capo 2 for standard. [Verse 1] C G On a Monday, I was arrested. C On a Tuesday, they locked me in the jail. G On a Wednesday, my trial was attested. C On a Thursday they said guilty and the judge's gavel fell. [Chorus] G I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders. C I got chains, chains around my feet. G I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders, C D and them chains them chains They're about to drag me down. (quick key change to D) [Verse 3] D A On a Monday, my mama come to see me. D On a Tuesday, they caught me with a file. A On a Wednesday, I'm down in solitary. D On a Thursday, I start on bread and water for a while. [Chorus] A I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders. D I got chains, chains around my feet. A I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders, D and them chains them chains are about to drag me down. A I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders. D I got chains, chains around my feet. A I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders, D and them chains them chains they're 'bout to drag me down. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Verse 2] (Cash didn't play verse 2 in this version, but so many expect to see it that I've appended it) C G On A Monday I Got My Stripe-ed Britches. C On A Tuesday I Got My Ball And Chain G On A Wednesday I'm Workin' Diggin' Ditches. C On A Thursday Lord I Begged 'Em Not To Knock Me Down Again