Six White Horses Chords

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Six White Horses by Johnny Cash is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G and A7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Subject: SIX WHITE HORSES  As recorded by: Johnny Cash 
 
SIX WHITE HORSES 
 
As recorded by: Tommy Cash 
 
D 
 
Some folks drink and some folks smoke 
 
Some folks love and some folks don't 
 
Some folks laugh and some folks frown 
 
Some folks here that'll gun you down. 
 
G A7 
 
Goodbye John {goodbye John} 
 
D 
 
Six White Horses come to take you home 
 
G A7 
 
Goodbye John {goodbye John} 
 
D 
 
They took you away before you sang your song. 
 
  
 
Some preach wrong and some preach right 
 
Some preach love and some preach fight 
 
Takes every kind to make the world go round 
 
Takes one to gun you down 
 
Goodbye Martin {goodbye Martin} 
 
Six White Horses come to take you home 
 
Goodbye Reverend {goodbye Reverend} 
 
They took you away before you sang your song. 
 
Some people stick pretty close to home 
 
Others are born with that urge to roam 
 
Welcome to our town 
 
Hope nobody tries to gun you down 
 
Goodbye Bobby {goodbye Bobby} 
 
Six White Horses come to take you home 
 
Goodbye Robert {goodbye Robert} 
 
They took you away before you sang your song. 
 
G 
 
Goodbye John {goodbye John} 
 
A7 
 
Goodbye Martin {goodbye Martin} 
 
G 
 
Goodbye Bobby {goodbye Bobby} 
 
A7 D 
 
They took you away before you sang your song. 
    	

Chord diagrams

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