WHAT IS TRUTH? by Johnny Cash Standard tuning EADGBE 4/4 Transcribed by joetormala INTRO - Moderate tempo / / / - / / / / D7 G C e|--------------------------------/---------------------------------/----------------------- B|--------------------------------/----0----------------------------/----------------------- G|--------------0-----2-----------/-------------------0----------0--/----------------------- D|-----4--------------------------/---------------0-----------0-----/---2----------2-----0-- A|--------------------------------/-----------2------------2--------/-----------3------2---- E|--------------------------------/---------------------------------/--------3------3------- A7 D7 G e|-----------------------------------/-------------------------------/------------------------- B|-----------------------------------/-------------------------------/------------------------- G|------2---2------------------------/------------------0----------0-/--------------0-------0-- D|--------------------4---0----------/--------------0-----------0----/------------0-------0---- A|------------------------------3--2-/--2-----2------------2---------/----2---2--------2------- -------------------------------------/-------------------------------/--------------------------- SPOKEN VERSE 1

^GThe old man ^G7turns off the ra^Cdio ^CKids sure play funn^A7y music these days! ^D7New fangled songs!^G Ev-ry' thing seems so loud ^G7And wild! It was so peaceful ba^Cck when I was a child! ^CWell, man, could it be^A7 that the girls and the boys ^D7Are trying to be heard above your noise!

SUNG

And the ^Glonely voice of y^Couth cries ^D7What is ^Gtruth?

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^GSays, Where did a^G7ll the old songs g^Co? ^CKids sure play funn^A7y music these days! ^D7New fangled ways^G! Ev-ry' thing seems so loud and wild! ^G7It was peaceful back^C when I was a child! ^CWell, man, could^A7 it be that all the girls and boys ^D7Are trying to be heard above all your noise!

SUNG

And the ^Glonely voice of y^Couth cries ^D7What is truth? ^G

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A l^Gittle boy of thr^G7ee sittin' on the f^Cloor Look^Cs up and says, "Daddy wha^A7t is war?" &qu^D7ot;Son that's when people fight^G and die!" Th^G7e little boy of three says, "^CDaddy why?" A y^Coung man seventeen i^A7n school, ^D7Being taught the golden rule, ^GBy the time an^G7other year's gone ar^Cound, He ^Cmay have to lay his own life do^A7wn.

SUNG

Can you ^Gblame the voice of y^Couth for asking ^D7What is tru^Gth?

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^GA young man sitt^G7in' on the witness ^Cstand, ^CThe man with the book says,^A7 "Raise your hand!" Rep^D7eat after me,"I so^Glemnly swear!" ^G7The judge looks down at hi^Cs long hair, And ^Calthough the young man sole^A7mnly swore, ^D7Nobody wanted to hear any more. ^GAnd it really didn't ma^G7tter if the truth was t^Chere, It ^Cwas the cut of his clothes and ^A7the length of his hair!

SUNG

And the l^Gonely voice of y^Couth cries, ^D7What is tru^Gth?

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