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