Down The Line Chords
by Johnny Cash
Down The Line by Johnny Cash is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, D and E. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
(intro) A
A
Well, you can't be my lover, baby, you ain't got the style,
A
I'm gonna get some real gone love that’d drive a cool cat wild.
D A
I gotta move, roll it right on down,
E A
I'm gonna get me a gal and a go out on the town.
A
Yes, I’m gonna move on down the line,
I’m gonna get me a girl and a make some time,
D
she can’t be square, she can’t be broke,
A
when she starts strutting, gotta go, cat, go,
D A
gotta move, move it right on down,
E A
I’m gonna get me a girl and a go out on the town.
A D A E A
Yeah. mm, mm, yeah, mm.
A
Well, I’m gonna show you, you ain’t so hot,
A
I'm gonna get what you ain't got,
A
she’ll be sweet, she won’t do me wrong.
A
she'll be cool and twice as gone,
D A
I'm gonna move, move it right on down,
E A
I’m gonna get me a girl and a go out on the town.
A
Yes, I’m gonna move on down the line,
I’m gonna get me a girl and a make some time,
D
she can’t be square, she can’t be broke,
A
when she starts strutting, gotta go, cat, go,
D A
gotta move, move it right on down,
E A
I’m gonna get me a girl and a go out on the town.
A
I’m on my move on down the line,
A
I wanna get me a girl and make some time,
D
she can’t be square she can’t be broke,
A
when she starts strutting gotta go cat go,
E A
gotta move, move it right on down.