Beans For Breakfast Chords

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Beans For Breakfast by Johnny Cash is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D7 and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			G                           D7                            G 
I couldn't hear you for the TV I didn't know you said goodbye 

                                  C                                 D7 
I saw your canceled check for the airfare didn't know flying got so high 

G                        D7                             G 
Beans for breakfast once again hard to eat 'em from the can 

                      C         D7                          G 
I've run out of clean utensils  I'm a hungry nasty lonesome man 



                             D7                                   G 
I heard the crows outside my window guess it's me they're talking about 

                               C                                  D7 
The fire you lit has burned to cinders every good thing's fizzled out 

G                        D7                             G 
Beans for breakfast once again hard to eat 'em from the can 

                                  C       D7                          G 
Wish you'd come back and wash the dishes  I'm a hungry nasty lonesome man 



                               D7                               G 
Caught a cold with the windows open crow droppings on my window sill 

                      C                           D7 
Probably got Histoplasmosis got no gun or I would kill them crows 

G                        D7                             G 
Beans for breakfast once again hard to eat 'em from the can 

                           C      D7                          G 
Plastic forks are a dime a dozen  I'm a hungry nasty lonesome man 



                       D7                                G 
Finally made it to the mailbox felt so bad I thought I'd die 

                            C                                   D7 
All I got was a bill from a doctor well I guess flying ain't so high 

G                        D7                             G 
Beans for breakfast once again hard to eat 'em from the can 

                            C       D7                          G 
Blue tick mattress cold and greasy  I'm a hungry nasty lonesome man 



                              D7                                  G 
The house burnt down from the fire that I built in your closet by mistake 

                      C                                        D7 
After I took all them pills but I got out safe in my duck head overalls 

G                        D7                                G 
Beans for breakfast once again I'm a hungry nasty lonesome man 
    	

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