Johnny Cash

Sunday Mornin' Coming' Down

Johnny Cash


Tom: G

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Well, I woke up Sunday morning
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With no way to hold my head that it didn't hurt
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And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad
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So I had one more for dessert
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Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes
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And found my cleanest dirty shirt
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And I shaved my face and combed my hair
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And stumbled down the stairs to meet the day

            G
Well, I`d smoked my brain the night before
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With cigarettes and songs that I'd been a-pickin'

But I lit my first and watched a small kid
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Cussin' at a can that he was kickin'
         G
Then I crossed the empty street and caught
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The Sunday smell of someone fryin' chicken
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And it took me back to somethin' that I'd lost
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Somehow, somewhere along the way

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    On a Sunday morning sidewalk
                                G
I'm wishing, Lord, that I was stone
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'Cause there's something in a Sunday
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That makes a body feel alone
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And there ain't nothing short of dying
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Half as lonesome as the sound
                    D
Of a sleeping city sidewalk
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And Sunday morning coming down

        G
In the park I saw a daddy
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With a laughin' little girl that he was swingin'

And I stopped beside a Sunday school
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And listened to the songs that they were singin'
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Then I headed back for home
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And somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringin'
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And it echoed through the canyon
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Like a disappearin' dream of yesterday