The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash - Rough Acoustic Guitar

Song: The Man Comes Around
Artist: Johnny Cash
Album: American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002)
Copyright © American Recordings/Universal

"The Man Comes Around" is the title track from Johnny Cash's 2002 album, American IV: The Man Comes Around. It was written several years prior to the release of the album; however, Cash updated it for the album, and it is one of the last songs Cash wrote before his death.


C/G
There's a man, goin' 'round, takin' names
C/G
And he decides, who to free, and who to blame
C/G
Everybody, won't be treated, all the same
C ** Am F
There'll be a golden ladder, reaching down.
F G C/G
When the man comes around.

C/G
The hairs, on your arm, will stand up
C/G
At the terror, in each sip, and each sup
C/G
Will you partake of that last offered cup?
C/G ** Am F
Or disappear, into the potter's ground?
F G C/G
When the man comes around.

[Chorus]
C
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers
C
One hundred million angels singin'
C F C G
Multitudes are marchin' to a big kettledrum
G
Voices callin', voices cryin'
G
Some are born and some are dyin'
G C
It's Alpha and Omega Kingdom come

[Bridge]
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C F C
And the whirlwind is in the thorn trees
C/G
And the virgins are all trimming their wicks

C F C
The whirlwind in the thorn trees
C/G
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks

[Second Verse]
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C/G
Till Armageddon no shalom, no shalom
C/G
Then the father hen will call his chicken's home
C/G
The wise man will bow down before the throne
C/G ** Am F
And at his feet they will cast the golden crowns…
F G C/G
When the man comes around.

C/G
Whoever is unjust let him be unjust still
C/G
Whoever is righteous let him be righteous still
C/G
Whoever is filthy let him be filthy still
C/G ** Am F
Listen to the words long written down
F G C
When the man comes around


[Chorus]
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C
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers
C
One hundred million angels singing
C F C G
Multitudes are marchin' to a big kettledrum
G
Voices callin', voices cryin'
G
Some are born and some are dyin'
G C
It's Alpha and Omega Kingdom come


C F C
And the whirlwind is in the thorn trees
C/G
And the virgins are all trimming their wicks

C F C
The whirlwind in the thorn trees
C/G
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks

C/G Am F
In measured hundred weight and penny pound
F G C/G
When the Man comes around.


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