Ah Bos Cee Dah

Johnny Cash

Tom: G

             G                                     D  G
    well, if you'd like to learn your abc,
                                                 D
    then listen very carefully to me,
                  G                                              C
    you can sing them like a funny foreign song,
             D                                       G
    and very, very soon, you sing along.

And you can sing your abc's like this,
Here's the first state letters :

                         G      D                    G
1. ah bos cee dah,       ef fah gha hah,
                                                 D
    ah bos cee dah, ef fah gha hah,
              G              C                      D                      G
    a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, ah bos cee dah, ef fah gha hah.

And the next state letters in the alphabet, you sing like this :

                      G    D                      G
2. ay jah kah lah,      meh nah ou pah,
                                                D
   ay jah kah lah, meh nah ou pah,
            G               C                    D                         G
    i j k l  - m n o p, ay jah kah lah, meh nah ou pah.

                      G
Well, that's sixteen letters of the alphabet,
                                                                                      D             G
And there's ten more, you know, but let's try those last ten, slow.

               G                      D                      G
3. queh ahr see tah, uh vee whu ix yah zee,
                                                                D
     queh ahr see tah uh vee whu ix yah zee,
        G                              C             D                                                G
    q r s t u v - w x y zee, queh ahr see tah, uh vee whu ix yah zee.

Now let's try them all !

                      G     D                    G
4. ah bos cee dah        ef fah gha hah,
                                                  D
    ay jah kah lah, meh nah ou pah,
              G                                               C
    queh ahr see tah, uh vee whu ix yah zee - means :
    D              D             D             D                  D               D             G
    a, b,c,d,e,f,g,h  h    i j k l    m n o p q    r s t    u v w x y zee.