Ring Of Fire | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
|4/4 N.C (B C C#) |3/4 G/D G C |4/4 G |
|3/4 G G/D D5 |4/4 G |
Verse 1
| G |3/4 G G/D C |4/4 G |
Love is a burning thing.
| G |3/4 G G/D D5 |4/4 G |
And it makes a fiery ring.
| G |3/4 G G/D C |4/4 G |
Bound by wild desire.
|3/4 G G/D D5 |4/4 G |
I fell into a ring of fire.
Chorus 1
| D | C G G/D |
I fell into a burning ring of fire.
| D | C G G/D |
I went down, down, down and the flames went higher.
| G |2/4 G D |4/4 G | G |
And it burns, burns, burns. The ring of fire, the ring of fire.
Instrumental 1
||: 3/4 G G/D C |4/4 G |3/4 G G/D D5 |4/4 G :||
Chorus 2
| D | C G G/D |
I fell into a burning ring of fire.
| D | C G G/D |
I went down, down, down and the flames went higher.
| G |2/4 G D |4/4 G | G |
And it burns, burns, burns. The ring of fire, the ring of fire.
Verse 2
| G G/D G C |3/4 G G/D C | 4/4 G |
The taste of love is sweet.
| G G/D G D5 |3/4 G G/D D5 | 4/4 G |
When hearts like ours meet.
|3/4 G G/D C |2/4 G | 3/4 G G/D C |4/4 G |
I fell for you like a child.
| G G/D G D5 | 4/4 G |
Oh, but the fire went wild.
Chorus 3
| D | C G G/D |
I fell into a burning ring of fire.
| D | C G G/D |
I went down, down, down and the flames went higher.
| G |2/4 G D |4/4 G | G (B C C#) |
And it burns, burns, burns. The ring of fire, the ring of fire.
Chorus 4
| D | C G G/D |
I fell into a burning ring of fire.
| D | C G G/D |
I went down, down, down and the flames went higher.
| G |2/4 G D |4/4 G | G |
And it burns, burns, burns. The ring of fire, the ring of fire.
Outro
| G |2/4 G D |4/4 G | G |
And it burns, burns, burns. The ring of fire, the ring of fire.
| G | G | G | to fade
The ring of fire, the ring of fire, the ring of fire, the ring of fire.
Ring Of Fire’s chords, progressions, time signatures, and TAB
This is not easy. Johnny Cash‘s Ring Of Fire is extremely difficult to play like the original, it would be a guaranteed car crash if you played this without rehearsal.
The reason is not because of Ring of Fire’s chords, they’re just I – IV – V, or G C D in the key of G. The problem is the time signatures, they’re mad!
The only way I could work this out was by applying an alternating bass line between the root and the 5th, writing it all out bar by bar using TAB.
Members get access to all this TAB and can therefore play along with the original recording without getting lost. Here’s a link to the complete lesson (members only): Ring Of Fire chord analysis and TAB.
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Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash recording career started in 1955 on Sun Records (the same label as Elvis) and ended in 2002 with a masterpiece produced by Rick Rubin.
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