Standard (EADGBE)

3. Guitar chords:

e[0] e[0] e(x)

b[3] b[3] b[3]

g[4] g[2] g(0)

d[4] d[0] d[0]

a[2] a[2] a[0]

e[2] e[x] e[2]

4. Riff 1 is played on the piano. The guitar chords and notes

below are, of course, a very simplified transcription.

Riff 1

x3 (There's a pause between the 2nd and the 3rd time,

where just the G chord + b[--0h3p0h30...-] sound

for serveral bars.)

b[--0h3p0h3p0h3p0h3p0---------0h3p0h3p0h3p0h3p0----------]

b[--0h3p0h3p0h3p0h3p0----------]

Verse 1

Strangest thing days I feel like dirt

And then I see the diamond dust on everything

Strangest thing something plucks my nerve

And then I hear a hundred chords a-shimmering

Verse 2

Strangest thing the way that one guitar

Can move me more than any symphony

Strangest thing when it stars to pour

I feel the sadness and the pain go out of me

Chorus

I don’t feel sad when Cash wears black I hear the train comin’

Good things down the railroad track ya gotta believe in somethin’

Riff 1

x1

Verse 3

Yeah the strangest thing that assassin’ gun

It was a-trained to fire away on anyone

Strangest thing the way a stranger wept for him

And how she spilt a tear of love

Yeah the strangest thing the way that hope can hide itself

Behind the walls of anything

Chorus

I don’t feel sad when Cash wears black I hear the train comin’

Good things down the railroad track ya gotta believe in somethin’

Riff 1

x1

Verse 4

Strangest thing like a potion to unspell

The curse of human suffering

Stangest thing strangest things befall

Even the strongest of us all