Capo 2nd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

 Sunday morning, my Rebecca sleeping in with me again

 There's a kid outside the church kicking a can

 When the cedar branches twist she turns her collar to the wind

 The weather can close the world within its hand

 And my mother says Rebecca is as stubborn as they come

 They both call to me with words I never knew

 There's a bug inside the thimble, there's a band-aid on her thumb

 And a pony in the river turning blue

 They say, "Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take"

 My Rebecca says she never wants a boy

 To be barefoot on the driveway as they wave and ride away

 Then to run inside and curse the open door

 I once gave to my Rebecca a belated promise ring

 And she sold it to the waitress on a train

 I may find her by the phone but with a fashion magazine

 She may kiss me when her girlfriends leave again

 They say, "Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take"

 I think I could never love another girl

 To be free atop a tree stump and to look the other way

 While she shines my mother's imitation pearls

Solo

 Sunday evening my Rebecca's lost a book she never read

 And the moon already fell into the sea

 Saw the statues of our fathers in the courthouse flower bed

 Now they blend with all the lightning-tattered trees

 They say, "Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take"

 My Rebecca said she knew I'd want a boy

 A dollar for my boardwalk red balloon, to float away

 She would earn a pocketful to buy me more