Kick Out The Lights Johnny Cash ukulele

Kick Out The Lights Johnny Cash

• C#

This song Ellis plays live and is not yet on an album.  Standard blues shuffle.  There  
are multiple video versions on YouTube. 
He plays it in either C# with an open tuning, or in E (C# open tuning with 3 
Capo on 3rd  
3
fret).  Chords are just bar chords for I, IV, V. 
Apologies in advance for the lyrics at the bridge.  There are just a few lines that are  
tough to understand from the vids.  All other lyrics should be accurate. 

C# open tuning 
C#  G#   C#  F   G#  C# 

Capo: 3rd fret to play in E 

LYRICS 
E 
Now, Johnny Cash, the man in black, was at the Grand Ole Opry 

A 
Drunk with ambition, whiskey and coffee 

E                                                   B 
He was dancing with demons.  Nothing could stop him tonight, tonight 

E 
It felt like a church, he said a little prayer 

A 
Ran to the stage taking two and three stairs 

E                                                         B 
You can heckle old Johnny, hell he wouldn't care 'cause tonight, 

He's gonna kick out the lights. 

Chorus: 

E 
Kick out the lights, Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash 

A 
Kick out the lights, Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash 

E 
Kick out the lights, Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash 

B 
Kick out the lights 


E 
Now you can play a big theater to chandeliers and pearls 

A 
Rage inside a stadium to rows of pretty girls 

E                                             B 
Take your fancy jet, tour around the world, if you like, it's alright 

E 
Or you can play Folsom prison to the robbers, the crooks 

A 
To 300 killers giving back dirty looks 

E                                                    B 
If there's a prison riot, you're gonna get the hook, so tonight, you better kick out the lights... 

Chorus 

BRIDGE 
Dbm  A                     E                 B 
Play, play on John.  Johnny until the light goes on 

Dbm  A                     E                 B 
Play, play on John.  Johnny until the light goes on 

E 
So go on sing your little love songs about lying and leaving 

A 
Your mama's good cooking, how you can't break even 

E                                                         B 
Your pick-up truck, how your girlfriend's cheating, it's alright, if you like 

E 
Or you can sing a ring of fire, and how God cut you down 

A 
About cocaine, freight trains, Sunday morning coming down 

E                                                  B 
How you shot a man in Reno just to paint the town, you're damn right.  You'd be kicking  
out the lights. 

Chorus 

  

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