The Man Comes Around Chords by Johnny Cash

[Start]

[Intro]
N.C.                                       
And I heard as it were the noise of thunder
N.C.                                      
One of the four beasts saying come and see
                             C    
And I saw and behold a white horse


[Verse]
C                                      
There's a man going around taking names
       C                                   
And he decides who to free and who to blame
                           C           
Everybody won't be treated all the same
                                       Am  
There will be a golden ladder reaching down
F G                  C     
■ When the man comes around
C                                  
The hairs on your arm will stand up
   C                                     
At the terror in each sip and in each sup
C                                        
Will you partake of that last offered cup
                               Am    
Or disappear into the potter's ground


[Chorus]
F                    C     
■ When the man comes around
                           C     
Hear the trumpets hear the pipers
                           C      
One hundred million angels singing
                           F   C   G         
Multitudes are marching to the big kettledrum
               G                
Voices calling and voices crying
              G                 
Some are born and some are dying
                       C           
It's Alpha and Omega's kingdom come
    F                             C   
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree
C                                       
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
F                       C         
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree
                   C                         
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks


[Verse]
                   C               
'til Armageddon no shalam no shalom
                    C                          
Then the father hen will call his chickens home
                  C                         
The wise man will bow down before the throne
                                 Am           
And at his feet they'll cast the golden crowns
F G                  C     
■ When the man comes around
           C                             
Whoever is unjust let him be unjust still
           C                                   
Whoever is righteous let him be righteous still
        C                                
Whoever is filthy let him be filthy still
                                      Am
Listen to the words long written down ■ 


[Chorus]
F G                  C     
■ When the man comes around
         C                       
Hear the trumpets hear the pipers
            C                     
One hundred million angels singing
                           F       C          G
Multitudes are marching to the big kettledrum ■
                          G     
Voices calling and voices crying
                           G    
Some are born and some are dying
                       C           
It's Alpha and Omega's kingdom come
F                       C             
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree
C                                       
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
F                   C             
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree
                                   C         
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks
                               Am         
In measured hundred weight and penny pound
F              C           
■ When the man comes around


[Outro]
      C                                            
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts
                               C    
And I looked and behold a pale horse
                                 C    
And his name that sat on him was Death
         C                
And Hell followed with him


[End]