ABBA - The Day Before You Came

      
 
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 #From: jfp@stud.unit.no (Jostein F. Pettersen)
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 #ABBA: The day before you came
   Em                                                 B7 
 I must have left my house at eight because I always do
                                                          Em 
 My train I'm certain left the station just when it was due
                                                D  
 I must have read the morning paper going into town
                                                                 G   
 And having gotten through the editorial no doubt I must have frowned
                                                  D7 
 I must have made my desk around a quarter after nine
                                                             G   
 With letters to be read and heaps of papers waiting to be signed
    C                     
 I must have gone to lunch
    Em                                Am                  
 at half past twelve or so The usual place the usual bunch
     Am7                                                B7   
 And still on top of this I'm pretty sure it must have rained
                     Em 
 The day before you came
 I must have lit my seventh cigarette at half past two
 And at the time I never even noticed I was blue
 I must have kept on dragging through the business of the day
 Without really knowing anything I hid a part of me away
 At five I must have left there's no exception to the rule
 A matter of routine I've done it ever since I finished school
 The train back home again
 Undoubtedly I must have read the evening paper then
 Oh yes I'm sure my life was well within it's usual frame
 The day before you came
 E Cdim Adim B7_ E Edim Em B7 Em (*)
 I must have opened my front door at eight o'clock or so
 And stopped along the way to buy some Chinese food to go
 I'm sure I had my dinner watching something on TV
 There's not I think a single episode of Dallas that I didn't see
 I must have gone to bed around a quarter after ten
 I need a lot of sleep and so I like to be in bed by then
 I must have read a while
 The latest one by Marilyn French or something in that style
 It's funny but I had no sense of living without aim
 The day before you came
 And turning out the light
 I must have yawned and cuddled up for yet another night
 And rattling on the roof I must have heard the sound of rain
 The day before you came
 E Cdim Adim B7_ E Edim Em B7 Em x2 (*)
 (*) Use these chords:
 E A D G B E 
       

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 Cdim |8 9 10 8 11 8
 Adim |5 6 7 5 8 5
 Edim |0 1 2 0 3 0
 B7_ :7 9 7 8 7 7
 B7 :X 2 1 2 0 2