Waymore's Blues chords and lyrics

Fun fact

”Waymore's Blues” was written by the legendary Waymore Jennings, first released in 1975 as part of his album ”Dreaming My Dreams”.

In this version, we get an iconic collaboration, where Johnny Cash sings together with Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins!

This is a standard three chord country/blues song, but they also use a G major chord - even though the song is in the key of E. The G major chord is not found naturally in the diatonic E major scale, but it sounds great in this intro, adding some extra ”blues” to the track. In the intro, they switch back and forth from the E major to the G major, which sets up the song in a cool way! Let’s play!