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Well , I (C)woke up Sunday morning ,
with no (F)way to hold my head, that didn«t (C)hurt
and the (C)beer i had for breakfast ,
wasn«t (Am)bad, so I had one more for des-(G7)-sert
than I (C)thumbled through my closet ,
for my (F)clothes, found my cleanest, dirty (C)hirt
than I (G7)washed my face and combed my hair,
stumbled down the stairs to meet the day.
2.
Well I smoked my brain the night befor ,
with cigarets and songs that we been picking
And I lit my first and stopped to watch ,
a small kid with a can that he was kicking
Than I crossed an empty street ,
and caught the Sunday-smell of someone«s frying chicken
and it took me back to something ,
that I lost somewhere somehow along the way
Ref:
On a Sunday morning (F)sidewalk,
wishing Lord that I was (C)stoned
Cause there is something in a (G7)Sunday,
that makes somebody feel a-(C)-lone
And it«s nothing shure but (F)dieing,
half as lone some as the (C)sound
of a sleeping city (G7)sidewalk,
when Sunday morning coming (C)down
3.
In a park I saw a Daddy ,
with a laughing little girl he was swinging
And I stopped beside a Sunday school ,
and listened to the songs that they were singing
Than I hadded back for home ,
and some whrer far away a lonely bell was ringing
And it echoed to the canyons ,
like the dissapearing dreames of yesterday
Ref:
On a Sunday morning sidewalk ....
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This is not a bad version of the song in the key of C, but I've
never heard this song in that key by Johnny Cash. I also think there
are some things left out like walk downs and some chord changes.
-nunzbomb | 8/22/2004 | I didn't notice this tab at first. I corrected the last one that's done in 'a',
and then i opened this one, and it's exactly the way that i've always played it. oh and if anybody wonders what recording this is of the song, i don't think there are any other ones. I have the same recording of that song on every Cash record that I have with that song on it. It's exactly the same. It's performed live with an orchestra, 1970. Well every record that I have with the song, says 1970, but that's when it was originally recorded. It could be a different recording
of the song that they put on all those
'greatest hits' records. well it's an awesome song anyhow. it dont matter what key Cash plays it in, you can play it any key
you want. it dont have to be the same way he
does it or the same way kristofferson plays it. im pretty sure they do it differently.
well i havent heard kristoffersons version
yet, but im waiting to find a cd of his that mostly has songs i know.
-macg1 | 8/29/2004 | The Kristofferson version is available on a tape Kris Kristofferson Super Hits by Momument recodings #NT 69788. He does it a little slower and more mournful than Johnny Cash.
The story goes that when Johnny Cash did the song for the first time on his TV show, the network execs wanted him to change the words to I wish that I was home instead of stoned to avoid the drug reference. Johnny Cash came to that part of the song and looked up at kristofferson in the balcony and sang stoned. There was never a problem after that.
The Kristofferson version on the recording mentioned above is Bb. I do the song in G because it suits my voice in G. I think any song like this should be done in the key that suits the singer's voice. My opinion is that unless it is a classical piece such as Bach's Short Prelude in Gm, that the key is moveable. However, you wouldn't play the Short Prelude in Gm in Cm.
On the long notes held on the 7th chords, I like to play between the the straight major chord then do the 7th such as D then D7. It makes nice variety.
-Greg Kashella | 10/15/2004 | no one cares b***h... get a life
-Herbie06 | 2/26/2005 | I care. I agree with you about changing key if needed. But, generally, I like to hear the song in the original key if possible.
-Swoop80 | 2/27/2005 | Herbie sucks
-ledouxit | 2/8/2009 |
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