• Song:

    Jah Didnt Kill Johnny

  • Artist:

    Sage Francis

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		Jah Didn't Kill Johnny - Sage Francis
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Artist: Sage Francis
Title: Jah Didn't Kill Johnny
Album: A Healthy Distrust
Label: Epitaph Records
Date: 2006-05-29 01:45
Tabbed by Patrik Persson
Email: putte_pilot@hotmail.com
Artist homepage: http://www.sagefrancis.net/


Tuning ½ step down (Eb)

Main riff played throughout the whole song (note that only the four middle strings are strummed):
A - Bm - D
 
The picking part:

       A           Bm           D
eb|-------------------------------------------------------------|
Bb|-------2-----------3-----------3-------3---------------------|
F#|---------2-----------4-------2---2---2---2-------------------|
C#|-----2-----------4---------0-------0-------------------------|
G#|---0-----------2---------------------------------------------|
Eb|-------------------------------------------------------------|


00:48

A (chords)       Bm     D
jah didn't kill johnny 

(D)     
he had a date with death

         A          Bm
it was a slow train coming

          D
and we've all got a train to catch

    A               Bm              D                        A
but lord, take your filthy claws off the rest of my friends.

           Bm        D
that is, of course, if they ain't already dead.

A (pick)  Bm       D
i make no demands. i just made amends.

          A                 Bm    
i made my bed and i'mma lie in it

             D					      A        Bm   D
but before i die...please...don't take any more of my friends

				 A         Bm
please don't take any more of my friends.

	D
life is easy.

A (chords)	      Bm	  D
the smoke didn't kill johnny. the drink didn't kill johnny.

A		      Bm	 D
the junk didn't kill johnny. and the women didn't kill johnny.

	   A             Bm
was it the road? i don't know.

	    D
was it rock and roll? i don't think so.

    A	 Bm   D					A (pick)  Bm   D
but god. god. god...would never...kill...johnny cash.

		  A      Bm   D
he had a train to catch

		   A      Bm   D
he had a date with death

			     A       Bm
and we've all got a train to catch

	  D                A... (Progress the chords and fade out)
life is easy. holler at ya boy. life is easy.


| /  slide up
| \  slide down
| h  hammer-on
| p  pull-off
| ~  vibrato
| +  harmonic
| x  Mute note
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