{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1461895,"song":"Tennessee Flat Top Box","artist":"Johnny Cash","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1461895-tennessee-flat-top-box-chords-by-johnny-cash/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1461895?type=chord","rating":4.57984,"votes":39,"content":"Capo 1st fret\r\nTuning is pretty iffy. Could never quite get it. Standard tuning if you're not\r\nplaying with the song sounds great though.\r\n\r\n[tab]e|-------------------------------------------------------------|\r\nB|-----------1/2---2-----2--------2--1/2---2-----2-------2-----|\r\nG|--------0--1/2------2--------2-----1/2------2-------2--------|\r\nD|--3--4--------------------2----------------------2-----------|\r\nA|-------------------------------------------------------------|\r\nE|-------------------------------------------------------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]e|-------------------------------------------------------------|\r\nB|-------------------------------------------------------------|\r\nG|---2--0------------------------------------------------------|\r\nD|---------4--2--0---------------------------------------------|\r\nA|------------------4--2--0--------0--------0------------------|\r\nE|---------------------------2--2-----2--2---------------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nIn a little cabaret in a South Texas border town,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSat a boy and his guitar, and the people came from all around.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd all the girls from there to Austin,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWere slippin' away from home and puttin' jewelery in hock.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nTo take the trip, to go and listen,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTo the little dark-haired boy who played the Tennessee flat top box.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd he would play:            A[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]e|------------------------------------------------------------------|\r\nB|------------------------------------------------------------------|\r\nG|------------------------------------------2--2-----0--------------|\r\nD|------------0-----------0-----------0--4--------4-----4--2--------|\r\nA|---0--2--4-----0--2--4-----0--2--4--------------------------------|\r\nE|------------------------------------------------------------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]e|----------------------------------------------------------------------|\r\nB|----------1/2--2-----2--------2--1/2--2-----2--------2----------------|\r\nG|----------1/2-----2--------2-----1/2-----2--------2-----2--0----------|\r\nD|------------------------2----------------------2-----------4---2--0---|\r\nA|--0--0----------------------------------------------------------------|\r\nE|----------------------------------------------------------------------|\r\nRepeat[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]                                                                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWell, he couldn't ride or wrangle and he never cared to make a dime[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut give him his guitar, and he'd be happy all the time.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd all the girls from nine to ninety,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWere snapping fingers, tapping toes, and begging him: \"Don't stop.\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd hypnotized and fascinated,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBy the little dark-haired boy who played the Tennessee flat top box.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd he would play: (Repeat solo)[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]                                                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThen one day he was gone, and no one ever saw him 'round,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHe'd vanished like the breeze, they forgot him in the little town.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nBut all the girls still dreamed about him.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd hung around the cabaret until the doors were locked.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd then one day on the Hit Parade,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWas a little dark-haired boy who played the Tennessee flat top box.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]               [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd he would play: (Repeat Solo)[/tab]","plain_text":"Capo 1st fret\nTuning is pretty iffy. Could never quite get it. Standard tuning if you're not\nplaying with the song sounds great though.","chords":["B","G","D","A","E"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}