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From: booker@elvice.ib.stortek.com (Sam Booker)
Subject: TAB: He Forgot It Was Sunday by John Prine
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 13:00:03 -0600 (MDT)

HE FORGOT IT WAS SUNDAY
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Words and music by John Prine

Transcribed by Sam Booker 

>From Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings, Oh Boy Records, 1995

NOTE:CAPO on II

INTRO:
   G (320003@1)       C (x32010@1)   D (xx0232@1)        G (320003@1)       C (x32010@1)       Am (x02210@1) D (xx0232@1)       GE|---|-3-2-|-2-0-|-0--|-2-0-|-0------|-3-2-|-2-0-|---|---|-----|-------| (320003@1)B|---|-----|-----|----|-----|----3-3-|-----|-----|---|-3-|-----|-------|
G|---|-----|-----|----|-----|--------|-----|-----|-2-|---|-4-2-|-0-----|
D|---|-----|-----|----|-----|--------|-----|-----|---|---|-----|-------|
A|---|-----|-----|----|-----|--------|-----|-----|---|---|-----|-------|
E|---|-----|-----|----|-----|--------|-----|-----|---|---|-----|-------|


   G (320003@1)                      C1.The (x32010@1)motel lights were blinkin'
2.We used to tell each other lies
3.The only song I ever knew

         D (xx0232@1)                  G1.On (320003@1)my chartreuse four-door Lincoln
2.With our orange plastic button eyes
3.Was Moonlight Bay on the Avenue

                              C1.On (x32010@1)the dock the fish were stinkin'
2.In a former life on a motel chair
3.These are tales from the Devil's Chin

            D (xx0232@1)           G1.I (320003@1)simply didn't have a care.
2.I was Charlie Parker's Teddy Bear
3.Charlie I could've been a contender

                                    C1.And (x32010@1)the old men sit 'round the cracker barrels
2.Yeah, me and Bird we'd stay up late
3.And the old men sit 'round the cracker barrels

         D (xx0232@1)                  G1.The (320003@1)children hum their Christmas Carols
2.I used to watch him contemplate
3.The children hum their Christmas Carols

                              C1.The (x32010@1)train tracks all run parallel
2.While his horn would sit by the window and wait
3.The train tracks all run parallel

             D (xx0232@1)           G1.But (320003@1)they'll all meet up one day
2.Till it was time for him to blow it
3.But they'll all meet up one day


CHORUS:

        G (320003@1)              C (x32010@1) On a dusty pew in a vestibule

            D (xx0232@1)            G (320003@1) Sits the Devil playing pocket pool

                         C (x32010@1)       Am (x02210@1) He's waiting for the next poor fool

          D (xx0232@1)             G (320003@1) Who forgot that it was Sunday


INSTRUMENTAL AFTER 2ND VERSE AND CHORUS:

   G (320003@1)       C (x32010@1)   D (xx0232@1)        G (320003@1)       C (x32010@1)       Am (x02210@1) D (xx0232@1)       GE|---|-3-2-|-2-0-|-0--|-2-0-|-0------|-3-2-|-2-0-|---|---|-----|-------| (320003@1)B|---|-----|-----|----|-----|----3-3-|-----|-----|---|-3-|-----|-------|
G|---|-----|-----|----|-----|--------|-----|-----|-2-|---|-4-2-|-0-----|
D|---|-----|-----|----|-----|--------|-----|-----|---|---|-----|-------|
A|---|-----|-----|----|-----|--------|-----|-----|---|---|-----|-------|
E|---|-----|-----|----|-----|--------|-----|-----|---|---|-----|-------|

ENDING:
        Am (x02210@1)     D (xx0232@1)     G (320003@1)    Am (x02210@1)D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1)He forgot that it was Sunday