Redemption Songs Chords
by Johnny Cash
Redemption Songs by Johnny Cash is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, D, Em and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
(intro 2x) G C D
G Em C Am
1. Old Pirates, yes, they rob I, sold I to the merchant ships,
G Em C D
minutes after they took I from the bottomless pit.
G Em C Am
But my hand was made strong by the hand of the Almighty.
G Em C D
We forward in this generation triumphantly.
G D G C D G
Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?
Em D Em C D G C
'Cause all I ever had, redemption songs,
D G C D
redemption songs.
G Em
2. emancipate yourselves from mental slavery,
C Am
none but ourselves can free our minds.
G Em
Have no fear for atomic energy,
C D
'cause none of them can stop the time.
G Em
How long shall they kill our prophets,
C Am
While we stand aside and look?
G Em C D
Some say it's just a part of it, we've got to fulfil the book.
G D G C D G
So won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?
Em D Em C D G C
'Cause all I ever had, redemption songs,
D G C D G C D
redemption songs, redemption songs.
G Em C Am
3. Old Pirates, yes, they rob I, sold I to the merchant ships,
G Em C D
minutes after they took I from the bottomless pit.
G Em
How long shall they kill our prophets,
C Am
While we stand aside and look?
G Em C D
Yes, some say it's just a part of it, we've got to fulfil the book.
G D G C D G
So won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?
Em D Em C D G
'Cause all I ever had, redemption songs,
Em D Em C D G C
all I ever had, redemption songs,
D G C D G C D G
these songs of freedom, songs of freedom.