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Sunday Morning Coming Down (chromatic)

by Kris Kristofferson · posted by WaltP

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SUNDAY MORNING COMING DOWN
By: Kris Kristofferson
Key: Eb

-3* -3* -7*-7* -7* -7*  7*   7
Well I woke up Sun-day morn-ing, 
 -6  7   7* 7*  7*  7*   7
With no way to hold my head 
 -6  -5* -6    7
that did-n't hurt. 
-3* -3* -7* -7*-7*  7    7*    7
And the beer I had for break-fast 
 7  -6  -5*
Was-n't bad, 
5 -5* -6  7  -5*  -5   5   -3*
So I had one more for des-sert. 
  7  7*-7* -7*     -7* -7*
Then I fum-bled through my 
  8 -7*  7  -5*   8 
clos-et for my clothes, 
 8    8   -9  -9*   7*  8 -7*  -7*
And found my clean-est dir-ty shirt. 
 7  7   7*   7*  7*   7    7*   7   7*
An' I shaved my face and combed my hair, 
 7   -6   -6   -6  -5*   -6
An' stum-bled down the stairs 
5   -5* -5* -5
to meet the day. 

-7*  -7*   -7* -7*  -7*   7*  7   -6
I'd smoked my brain the night be-fore, 
  7   7* 7*   7*  
With cig-a-rettes 
 7*   7    -6  -5*  -6   7   7
and songs that I'd been pick-in' 
-3*-3*-7* -7* -7*   7    7*    7   7   -6 
But I lit my first and watched a small kid, 
-5*  5  -5*-6  7   -5* -5  5   -3* -3* 
Cuss-in' at a can that he was kick-ing. 
  7  7*  -7*   -7* -7* -7*  8 
Then I crossed the emp-ty street 
-7*  7    -5*  8   8    8
'n caught the Sun-day smell 
-9  -9*  7*  8 -7*   -7* -7* 
of some-one fry-in' chick-en. 
 7  7   7*  7*  7*  7*   7   -6
And it took me back to some-thin' 
 -6   7   7*   7*   7*
That I'd lost some-how, 
  7    7  -6  -6  -5* -5* 
some-where a-long the way. 

7   7  -9* -9* -9*  -9   -9    9
On the Sun-day morn-ing side-walks, 
-9* -9*   -9    7*  9  9    -7*
Wish-in' Lord, that I was stoned, 
   7      7*   -7*   -7*  7* 7  7  -6
'Cause there's some-thing in a Sun-day, 
  7*  7* 7 -6  -5* -6  7
Makes a bod-y, feel a-lone, 
 
 7     7*   -9* -9*   -9*  -9 -9 9  
And there's noth-in' short of dy-in' 
-9* -9*  -9   -9   9   9   -7*
Half as lone-some, as the sound, 
7   7*  -7* -7*   7* 7   7   -6 
On the sleep-in' cit-y side walks, 
 7*  7*   7  -6  -5* -5   -5*
Sun-day morn-in' com-in' down, 

 7     7*   -9* -9*   -9*  -9 -9 9  
And there's noth-in' short of dy-in' 
-9* -9*  -9   -9   9   9   -7*
Half as lone-some, as the sound, 
7   7*  -7* -7*   7* 7   7   -6 
On the sleep-in' cit-y side walks, 
 7*  7*   7  -6  -5* -5   -5*
Sun-day morn-in' com-in' down, 
 7*  7*   7  -6  -5* -5   -5*
Sun-day morn-in' com-in' down. 

-3*-3* -7* -7*-7*-7* 7* 7 
In the park I saw a dad-dy, 
 -6  7   7*  7*   7*  7*   7
With a laugh-in' lit-tle girl 
 -6  -5* -6    7   7
That he was swing-in' 
-3*-3*  -7*  -7*  -7* 7  7*  7     7
And I stopped be-side a Sun-day school 
-6  -5*   5  -5* -6   7  
And lis-tened to the song 
-5*   -5    5  -3* -3*
that they were sing-in' 
 7   7* -7* -7* -7* -7*  8
Then I head-ed back for home, 
-7*   7    -6   8  8  8
And some-where far a-way 
-9 -9* 7*  8   -7* -7* -7*
a lone-ly bell was ring-in' 
 7  7   7*  7*  7*   7*  7   -6  
And it ech-oed thru the can-yons, 
 -6   7   7* 7*  7*   7    7
Like the dis-ap-pear-ing dreams 
-6 -6  -5* -5*
of yes-ter-day 

7   7  -9* -9* -9*  -9   -9    9
On the Sun-day morn-ing side-walks, 
-9* -9*   -9    7*  9  9    -7*
Wish-in' Lord, that I was stoned, 
   7      7*   -7*   -7*  7* 7  7  -6
'Cause there's some-thing in a Sun-day, 
  7*  7* 7 -6  -5* -6  7
Makes a bod-y, feel a-lone, 
 
 7     7*   -9* -9*   -9*  -9 -9 9  
And there's noth-in' short of dy-in' 
-9* -9*  -9   -9   9   9   -7*
Half as lone-some, as the sound, 
7   7*  -7* -7*   7* 7   7   -6 
On the sleep-in' cit-y side walks, 
 7*  7*   7  -6  -5* -5   -5*
Sun-day morn-in' com-in' down, 


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