Well, I woke up Sunday mornin' With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad So I had one more for dessert
Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes And found my cleanest dirty shirt An' I washed my face and combed my hair Stumbled down the stairs to meet the day
I'd smoked my mind the night before With cigarettes and songs that I'd been pickin' But I lit my first and watched a small kid Playin' with a can that he was kickin'
And I walked across the street An' caught the Sunday smell of someone's fried chicken And it took me back to somethin' That I'd lost somewhere, somehow along the way
On the Sunday morning sidewalk I'm wishin', Lord, that I was stoned 'Cause there's something in a Sunday That makes a body feel alone
And there's nothin' short of dyin' Half as lonesome as the sound On the sleepin' city sidewalks And Sunday morning coming down
In the park I saw a daddy With a laughin' little girl that he was swingin' And I stopped behind a Sunday school And listened to the songs that they were singin'
I headed down the street And somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringin' And it echoed through the canyons Like the disappearing dreams of yesterday
On the Sunday morning sidewalk I'm wishin', Lord, that I was stoned 'Cause there's something in a Sunday That makes a body feel alone
And there's nothin' short of dyin' Half as lonesome as the sound On the sleepin' city sidewalks And Sunday morning coming down On the sleepin' city sidewalks And Sunday morning coming down