Johnny Cash – Im Free From The Chain Gang Now (Guitar)

Capo 1
Key
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Chords

The pull-on-offy stuff is fairly intuitive, basically it centers around the top two and involves a pull off on the B string: 0-1-3 between the G and C chords, and that same reverse a hammer on: 0-1-3, before you play the G chord. Listen to it and you'll get feel of it. The actual chord figuring out was the tricky part for me and I am not sure the G/C or the G/Dish chord that I transcribed, but it works.
G/Dish
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       G            C             G
I got rid of the shackles that bound me

         G                G/C      D
and the guards that were always around me

       G            C             G
There were tears on the mail mother wrote me in jail

       G               G/Dish     G
But I'm free from the chain gang now

       G            C             G
All the years I was known and respected

         G                G/C      D
'til one day I was wrongly suspected

       G            C             G
I was shackled in chains in a cold freezin' rain

       G               G/Dish     G
but I'm free from the chain gang now
[Guitar]
       G            C             G
All the years I was known by a number

      G         G/C      D
how I kept my mind is a wonder

       G            C             G
But like a bird in a tree I got my liberty

       G               G/Dish     G
and I'm free from the chain gang now

       G            C             G
I got rid of the shackles that bound me

         G                G/C      D
and the guards that were always around me

            G            C             G
There were tears on the mail mother sent me in jail

       G               G/Dish     G
But I'm free from the chain gang now

            G            C             G
There were tears on the mail mother sent me in jail

       G               G/Dish     G
But I'm free from the chain gang now
Tabbed by Jeremy John