Tabbed by Warrick Holfeld Warrick87@gmail.com Belated Promise Ring Standard tuning Capo 2nd Fret Intro: FCGC FCG F C G C Sunday morning, my Rebecca sleeping in with me again F C G There's a kid outside the church kicking a can F C G C When the cedar branches twist she turns her collar to the wind F C G The weather can close the world within its hand F C G C And my mother says Rebecca is as stubborn as they come F C G They both call to me with words I never knew F C G C There's a bug inside the thimble, there's a band-aid on her thumb F C G And a pony in the river turning blue F C G C They say, "Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take" F C G My Rebecca says she never wants a boy F C G C To be barefoot on the driveway as they wave and ride away F C G Then to run inside and curse the open door F C G C I once gave to my Rebecca a belated promise ring F C G And she sold it to the waitress on a train F C G C I may find her by the phone but with a fashion magazine F C G She may kiss me when her girlfriends leave again F C G C They say, "Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take" F C G I think I could never love another girl F C G C To be free atop a tree stump and to look the other way F C G While she shines my mother's imitation pearls Solo F C G C Sunday evening my Rebecca's lost a book she never read F C G And the moon already fell into the sea F C G C Saw the statues of our fathers in the courthouse flower bed F C G Now they blend with all the lightning-tattered trees F C G C They say, "Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take" F C G My Rebecca said she knew I'd want a boy F C G C A dollar for my boardwalk red balloon, to float away F C G She would earn a pocketful to buy me more