He Forgot It Was Sunday

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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

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:

1.The motel lights were blinkin'

2.We used to tell each other lies

3.The only song I ever knew

1.On my chartreuse four-door Lincoln

2.With our orange plastic button eyes

3.Was Moonlight Bay on the Avenue

1.On the dock the fish were stinkin'

2.In a former life on a motel chair

3.These are tales from the Devil's Chin

1.I simply didn't have a care.

2.I was Charlie Parker's Teddy Bear

3.Charlie I could've been a contender

1.And 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

1.The children hum their Christmas Carols

2.I used to watch him contemplate

3.The children hum their Christmas Carols

1.The train tracks all run parallel

2.While his horn would sit by the window and wait

3.The train tracks all run parallel

1.But 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:

On a dusty pew in a vestibule

Sits the Devil playing pocket pool

He's waiting for the next poor fool

Who forgot that it was Sunday

ENDING:

He forgot that it was Sunday