Borderline

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Borderline - Johnny Cash
No capo - Standard tunning
As you can listen here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRFQuw9LjFc&feature=kp
Intro :
C
mini-solo :
e----------------------------------------
B----------------------------------------
G---/5-4-5---7-10-9---------------------- X2
D----------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------
C G
As usual you just wouldn't listen waitin' for your turn to talk while I explain
G C
You just wouldn't stop and listen so you got your heart run over by a mystery train
C F
I tried to warn you from the start you must be careful of my kind
C F G C
/// ///
Not quite crazy not quite sane right on the borderline
C G
How many times I told you it's got nothin' to do with you why can't you see
G C
But there's a difference in our music you've got yours but mine's got me
C F
I stay up day and night for nothin' puttin' words on paper I can't find
C F G C
/// ///
Not quite crazy not quite sane right on the borderline
C G
It's a musical whodunit you know how people love a mystery
G C
There ain't no knot untangable the only thing unchangeable is me
C F
So if you're gonna stay get ready to go through this from time to time
C F G C
/// ///
I'm not quite crazy I'm not quite sane right on the borderline
C G
It's a musical whodunit you know how people love a mystery
G C
There ain't no knot untangable the only thing unchangeable is me
C F
So if you're gonna stay get ready to go through this from time to time
/// = stop.
Chords :
C F G
e------------0---------1---------3-------------
B------------1---------1---------0-------------
G------------0---------2---------0-------------
D------------2---------3---------0-------------
A------------3---------3---------2-------------
E----------------------1---------3-------------

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Borderline - Johnny Cash
No capo - Standard tunning
As you can listen here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRFQuw9LjFc&feature=kp
Intro :
C
/// = stop.

Borderline Chords by Johnny Cash

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