Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down Chords

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Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down by Ray Stevens is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords G7, C, D7, Em7, C7 and Am7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			INTRO: G7 
 
                                       C              D7               G7 
Well I woke up Sunday mornin' with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt 
                                        Em7                       D7 
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had 1 more for dessert 
        G7                              C                    C7              G7   Em7 
Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes and found my cleanest dirty shirt 
       C7              Am7              C7                D7                G7 
And I shaved my face, combed my hair, stumbled down the stairs to meet the day 
 
 
Well I smoked my brain the night before on cigarettes and songs I'd been a-pickin 
But I lit my first and watched a small kid cussin' at a can that he was kickin' 
Then I crossed the empty street 'n caught the Sunday smell of someone fryin' chicken 
And it took me back to somethin' that I lost somehow somewhere along the way 
 
                        C7     C                          G7 
On the Sunday mornin' sidewalk   wishin' Lord that I was stoned 
                               D7                         G7 
'Cause there's somethin' in a Sunday, makes a body feel alone 
                             C7   C                          G7 
And there's nothin' short of dyin'  half as lonesome as the sound 
                    D7                            G7 
On a sleepy city sidewalk, Sunday mornin' comin' down 
 
 
In the park I saw a daddy with a laughin' little girl that he was swingin' 
And I stopped beside a Sunday school and listened to the song that they were singin' 
Then I headed back for home and somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringin' 
And it echoed through the canyon like the disappearin' dreams of yesterday 
 
CHORUS 
 
Mmmm.... (like lyrics of CHORUS) 
 
 
 
NOTE 2: There's a chorus singing a hymn after Stevens sings "...song that they were singin'."   
Thanks to randykall, I know that hymn to go: "Bringin' in the sheaves, bringin' in the sheaves."   
 
NOTE 3 (yeah, too many notes): There are quite a few walk-downs in this song; in fact, 
pretty much every chord in the verses is a walkdown.   Just start with the bass note and 
go down, and add any interesting little picking patterns you want.  
    	

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