3/30/2017 Wreck Of The Old 97 Tab by Johnny Cash tabs @ Ultimate Guitar Archive Wreck Of The Old 97 Tab by Johnny Cash + --------------------------------------------------------------------- + | Ultimate Guitar Tabs Archive - your #1 source for tabs! | | http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/ | | | | Over 1,000,000 guitar, guitar pro and bass tabs! Also lessons | | news and guitar forums! | + --------------------------------------------------------------------- + Artist: Johnny Cash Song: Wreck Of The Old 97 Wreck Of The Old 97 Tabbed by: MrModigh Capo on 1st fret. This is from the Sun-recording done in the 50's. The intro and solo are as played by Luther Perkins. I haven't found the correct solo tab so I've made it myself, and I think it's the most accurate. The solo that Bob Wootton plays at San Quentin, is the same except for the part with the slide. I think Wootton plays it like this instead: G|--4-44-- D|-6-6--6- If you want to play along with the recording, you have to tune up your guitar 3/4 (or 1/4 with the capo on 1st fret). This will match Luther's tuning. [Intro] e|-----------------------------------------------------------------| b|-----------------------------------------------------------------| G|-----------------------------------------------------------------| D|------0-2-2-2---0----------PM------------------------------------| A|--4-4---------4---4-2-0--(4-2-0)---------------------------------| E|-----------------------------------------------------------------| A D Well, they gave him his orders at Monroe, Virginia. A E Said, "Steve, you're way behind time. A D This is not Thirty-Eight, this is old Ninety-Seven. A E A Put her into Spencer on time". Well he turned around and said to his big, greasy fireman, Hey "shovel on a little more coal. And when we cross that White Oak Mountain, Watch old Ninety-Seven roll." [Solo] e|-------------------------------------------------------------| b|-------------------------------------------------------------| G|------------------------------2-----------2-4-2--------------| D|------2-2-2---------0-0-0-0-4---4-2-2-2-4-------4/6----------| A|--0-4-------4-0-2-4------------------------------------------| E|-------------------------------------------------------------| e|-------------------------------------------------------------| b|-------------------------------------------------------------| G|------2-2-2-------------------2------------------------------| D|--2-4-------4-2-----0-0-0-0-4---4-2-2-2---0------------PM----| A|----------------2-4---------------------4---4-2-0---(4-2-0)--| E|-------------------------------------------------------------| It's a mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville. In a line on a three mile grade. It was on that grade that he lost his airbrakes, You'd see what a jump he made. https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/print/792136?simplified=0 1/2 3/30/2017 Wreck Of The Old 97 Tab by Johnny Cash tabs @ Ultimate Guitar Archive He was going down the grade makin' ninety miles an hour. His whistle broke into a scream. He was found in the wreck, with his hand on the throttle, scalded to death by the steam. Now all you ladies you better take a warnin', From this time on and learn Never speak harsh words to your true lovin' husband he may leave you and never return. |This verse wasn't in the original Sun-recording,| |but Johnny sings it in the San Quentin version. | |So here it is (3rd verse). | And then a telegram came from Washington station, this is how it read: "Oh that brave engineer that run old Ninety-Seven, is lyin' in old Danville dead". END +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation | | of the song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, | | or research. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Ultimate-Guitar.Com © 2017 Print https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/print/792136?simplified=0 2/2.