Chords for Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down & Jacob Green

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_ _ Tennessee State Prison in Nashville, Tennessee.
_ [Db] _ _ _ [Bb] A concert behind prison walls.
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ _ Well, I woke up Sunday morning
[Db] With no way to [Eb] hold my head
That [Ab] didn't hurt _ _ _ _
And the beer I had for breakfast
[Fm] Wasn't bad, so I had one more for [Eb] dessert
[Eb] Then _ _ _ [Ab] I fumbled in my closet
Threw [Db] my clothes and found
My cleanest dirty [Ab] shirt
_ _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Db] And then I washed my [Eb] face and combed my hair
Stumbled down the stairs to meet the day
_ [Ab] I smoked my mind the night [Db] before
With cigarettes [Eb] and songs that I'd been [Ab] picking _ _ _
Then I lit my first and watched the small [Fm] boy
Justin' at a can that [Eb] he was kickin'
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[Ab] Then I crossed the empty street
[Db] Caught the Sunday smell of someone [Ab] frying chicken
_ [Fm] And _ _ [Db] it took me back [Eb] to something
That I lost somewhere somehow [Ab] along the way
_ _ _ On a Sunday morning [Db] _ sidewalk
_ I'm wishing, Lord, that I [Ab] was stoned
_ _ Or was it something about [Eb] a Sunday
_ _ That'll make your body [Ab] feel alone
There _ ain't nothing short [Db] of dire
Half _ as lonesome as [Ab] the sound
_ _ Of a sleeping city [Eb] sidewalk
_ _ And Sunday morning [Ab] coming down
In _ _ _ the park I saw a daddy
[Db] With a laughing little [Eb] girl that he [Ab] was swinging
_ _ _ Then I stopped beside the Sunday school
[Fm] And listened to the songs that they [Eb] were singing
_ Heard ringing in the sheets
[Ab] I went on down the road and [Db] somewhere
Far away a lonely bell [Ab] was ringing
_ And [Fm] _ _ _ [Db] it echoed through [Eb] the canyon
Like a disappearing dream of [Ab] yesterday
_ _ _ On a Sunday morning [Db]
sidewalk
_ _ I'm wishing, Lord, that I [Ab] was stoned
_ _ Or was it something [Eb] about a Sunday
_ _ That'll make your body [Ab] feel alone
_ _ There ain't nothing [Db] short of dire
_ _ _ Half as lonesome [Ab] as the sound
_ _ Of a sleeping [Eb] city sidewalk
_ _ And Sunday morning [Ab] coming down
[Db] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
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_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] I've learned one thing
That when a man [Ab] is at rock bottom
[G] When there's no place [Gb] else he can [Eb] go except [Ab] up
That the only [G] thing that's really important in [Db] this world to him
Is that [E] somebody somewhere [Eb] cares
_ [Ab] _
And with that in mind I wrote this song
About something that really happened to a 16-year-old boy
In the state of Virginia
It's called Jacob Green _ _ _
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_ _ _ Jacob Green got busted for possession
_ Next morning early he appeared in cold
[Db] But he was sent to jail to wait
To be tried at [Fm] some later date
[Ab] Next morning early came a [Eb] sad report
_ [Ab] At the jail they took away his clothes to shame him
And to make [Eb] sure Jacob Green had no pride left
_ [Db] They cut off all his hair
[Ab] The day they found [Fm] him hangin' there
Afraid to [Eb] face the day [Ab] he killed himself
_ [Db] It happened [Eb] yesterday
And if [Db] you turn your [Ab] head away
[Fm] Somewhere in some dirty hole
That scene will be [Eb] rerun
[Db] Not only Jacob [Eb] Green
But many [Db] more you've [Ab] never seen
It could be someone that you love gets [Eb] done
Like Jacob [Ab] Green got done _
_ [Gm] _ [Ab] Jacob's father hired a team of lawyers
_ _ Inspections and long inquiries were held
[C] The [Db] sheriff then retired
The [Ab] paper said to guard [Fm] or fire
[Ab] They put a brand new coat of paint [Eb] on Jacob's cell
[F] But [Ab] like a tomb that looked so bright and shiny
_ Inside you'll find corruption [Ab] never seen
_ [Bb] And somewhere [Db] out there tonight
In a dirty [Ab] hole without [Fm] a light
They'll be lockin' up [Eb]
another [Ab] Jacob Green
_ _ It happened [Eb]
yesterday
[Db] And if you turn your head away
_ [Fm] Somewhere in some dirty hole
That [Ab] scene will be [Eb] rerun
Not [Db] only Jacob [Eb] Green
But many [Db] more you've [Ab] never seen
It could be someone that you love gets done
Like Jacob Green got done
It could be someone that you love gets done
[Eb] Like Jacob Green [Ab] got done
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