Someday Soon Chords

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Someday Soon by Johnny Cash is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Am, F, Em, G7, Dm and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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C
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16
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Verse 
C                    Am                F             C 
There's a young girl that I know her age is twenty-one 
    Em                              F  G7 
She comes from down in southern Colorado 
  C                   Am              F            C 
I just got out of the service and I'm lookin for a fun 
        Dm               G7              C 
Someday soon she's going with me someday soon 
                  Am                  F             C 
Well her Daddy he don't like me cause I ride in the rodeo 
Em                                                 F   G7 
Well he says that I'm the kind that'll leave her crying 
    C                         Am             F               C 
But I know that she would follow me down the toughest road I go 
            Dm             G7              C 
And someday soon I'm gonna get her someday soon 

G7                              F                        C 
But when I come to call her pa ain't got one kind word to say 
Am                              D7             G7 
I bet it's cause he was as wild in his younger days 

Verse 
C                    Am                F                C 
So blow you old blue northern come and blow her back to me 
Em                              F   G7 
I'm riding in tonight from California 
C                       Am       F                C 
And the loves that darned old rodeo more than she's loves me 
        Dm               G7               C 
Someday soon she's going with me someday soon 

G7                              F                        C 
But when I come to call her pa ain't got a kind word to say 
Am                              D7             G7 
I bet it's cause he was as wild in his younger days 

Verse 
C                        Am                F                C 
So now blow you old blue northern come and blow her back to me 
Em                                    F   G7 
I'll be driving in tonight from California 
C                         Am       F                C 
And the love that blamed old rodeo more than she's loves me 
        Dm                 G7          C 
Someday soon I'm gonna get her someday soon 
        Dm               G7               C 
Someday soon she's going with me someday soon 
    	

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100 BPM Andante