I'm On Fire Chords

KeyA CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays422

I'm On Fire by Johnny Cash is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, Dsus2, F#m, E and D/F#. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
A
Text
16
Speed
  			 A 
Hey little girl is your daddy home 
            Dsus2 
Did he go away and leave you all alone 
      F#m 
I got a bad desire 

Dsus2  E   A 
Ooh I'm on fire 

 A 
Tell me now baby is he good to you 
              Dsus2 
Can he do to you the things that I do oh no 

       F#m 
I can take you higher 

Dsus2  E   A 
Ooh_____ I'm on fire 

( F#m   A   F#m   A ) 

         F#m 
It's like someone took a knife baby edgy and dull  
                        A 
and cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my skull 

   A 
At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet 

and a freight train running through the middle of my head 

 Dsus2          F#m 
Only you...can cool my desire 

Dsus2  E      A  Dsus2   E      A  Dsus2    E  A 
Ooh I'm on fire, Ooh I'm on fire, Ooh I'm on fire 
                   
( F#m    F#m   F#m   F#m   A   A   A   A ) 

 A 
Hey little girl is your daddy home 
            D/F# 
Did he go away and leave you all alone 
      F#m 
I got a bad desire 

Dsus2  E      A 
Ooh I'm on fire 

And tell me now baby is he good to you 
              Dsus2 
Can he do to you the things that I do oh no 
       F#m 
I can take you higher 
Dsus2   E     A 
Ooh  I'm on fire  
                  
( F#m  F#m  F#m  F#m  A   A  A  A ) 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

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

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante