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Great song from Johnny Cash! Here are the guitar chords of Man In Black. If you want to master it have a look at this tutorial from JustinGuitar.
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Well, you wonder why I always dress in black.
Why you never see bright colors on my
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back,
and
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Why does my appe
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arance, seem to
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have a sombre t
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one,
Well, there’s a
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reason for the things that I have
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on.
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I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of tow
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n.
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I wear it for the pris
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oner, who has l
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ong paid for his cri
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me.
But is the
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re because he’s a victim of the ti
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mes.
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I wear the black for those, who’ve never read,
Or listened to the words, that Jesus s
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aid,
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About the road to h
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appiness, through l
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ove and char
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ity,
Why, you’d thi
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nk He’s talking straight to you and
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me.
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Well, we’re doin’ mighty fine, I do suppose,
In our streak-of-lightnin’ cars and fancy c
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lothes,
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But just so we’re re
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minded, of, the
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ones who are held
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back,
Up f
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ront there oughta be a man in bl
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ack.
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I wear it for the sick and lonely old,
For the reckless ones, whose bad trip left them c
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old,
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I wear the black in
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mournin’, for the
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lives that could have
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been,
Each w
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eek we lose a hundred fine young m
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en.
And,
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I wear it for the thousands who have died,
Believin’ that the Lord was on
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their
side,
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I wear it for
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another hundred
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thousand who have d
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ied,
Beli
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evin’ that we all were on their s
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ide.
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Well, there’s things that never will be right, I know
and things need changin’ everywhere yo
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u
go,
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But ’til we start to m
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ake a move, to
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make a few things
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right,
You’ll n
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ever see me wear a suit of wh
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ite.
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Aw! I’d love to wear a rainbow every day, and
Tell the world that ev’rything’s
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OK
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But I’ll try to carry
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off a little d
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arkness on my b
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ack,
‘Til things are
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brighter,
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I’m the man in
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black.
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