Family Bible Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays390

Family Bible by Johnny Cash is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, Am, D, G7, G and Bb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
Speed
  			Verse 

C            F                      C 
There's a family Bible on the table 
     Am               D        G7 
Each page is torn and hard to read 
    C           F            C 
But the family Bible on the table 
     F          C      G      C 
Will ever be my key to memories. 
C             F                 C 
At the end of day when work was over 
    Am               D         G7 
And when the evening meal was done 
          C           F              C 
Dad would read to us from the family Bible 
         F              C         G7     C 
And we'd count our many blessings one by one. 

 
      F         Bb              F 
I can see us sittin' 'round the table 
                                     C 
When from the family Bible dad would read 
              F              C 
I can hear my mother softly singing 
              F       C     G7       C 
Rock of Ages, Rock of Ages cleft for me. 

Verse 
C                      F            C 
This old world of ours is full of troubles 
    Am                       D         G7 
But this old world would oh, so better be 
        C         F             C  
If we?d find more Bibles on the table 
            F               C     G7       C 
And mothers singing Rock of Ages cleft for me. 

 
      F         Bb              F 
I can see us sittin' 'round the table 
                                     C 
When from the family Bible dad would read 
              F              C 
I can hear my mother softly singing 
              F       C     G7       C 
Rock of Ages, Rock of Ages cleft for me.  
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante