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Song title:     Sunny Afternoon
Original Album: Face To Face

Words and Music by Raymond Douglas Davies
Copyright © 1966 Davray Music Limited.

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
The INTRO Figure comprises a 4-bar bass-line.



INTRO:

[play INTRO Figure]  [x2]


INTRO Figure
  D                                                                   A
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-5-------5-------3-------3-------|-2-------2-------1-------1-------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|-5-------5-------3-------3-------|-1-------1-------0-------0-------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |




VERSE1:
Chords:
Dm  xx0231    A7  x02020
C7  x32310    G   3x0003
F   x33211    E   022100


   | Dm            | C7           | F            | C7
The  taxman's taken  all my dough,  left me in my  stately home,

| A7            | %           | Dm               | C7
  Lazin' on this  sunny after - noon, and I can't  sail my yacht,

    | F           | C7             | A7                 | %           | Dm
He's  taken every - thing I've got.  All I've got's this  sunny after - noon.



CHORUS1:
Chords:
D7  xx0212    A7  02020
G7  320001    A   x02220
C7  032310    G   3x0003
F   033211    E   022100


| D7               | %                | G7      | %         | C7           | %             | F   A7
  Save me, save me,  save me from this  squeeze,     I got a  big fat mamma  trying to break  me

     | Dm             | C7          | Dm               | G7  C7  | F          | A7          | Dm    [INTRO bass-line first 2 bars]
And I  love to live so  pleasantly,   live this life of  luxury,   lazin' on a  sunny after - noon

      | A      G      | F  E       | Dm  [INTRO bass-line first 2 bars]        | A      G       | F  E
In the  summer-time...       In the  summer-time...                      In the  summer-time...




VERSE2:
Chords:
Dm  xx0231    A7  x02020
C7  x32310    G   320003
F   x33211    E   022100


  | Dm                  | C7          | F               | C7         | A7              | %              | Dm
My  girlfriend's run off  with my car,  gone back to her  ma and pa,   telling tales of  drunkenness and  cruelty.

       | C7           | F            | C7            | A7         | %           | Dm
Now I'm  sitting here,  sipping at my  ice-cool beer,  lazin' on a  sunny after - noon.




CHORUS2:
Chords:
D7  xx0212    A7  x02020
G7  320001    A   x02220
C7  x32310    G   3x0003
F   033211    E   022100

| D7               | %             | G7          | C7              | %             | F     A7
  Help me, help me, help me sail a - way, give me  two good reasons  why I ought to  stay.

        | Dm             | C7          | Dm               | G7  C7  | F          | A7          | Dm    [INTRO bass-line first 2 bars]
'Cause I  love to live so  pleasantly,   live this life of  luxury,   lazin' on a  sunny after - noon,

      | A     G      | F  E       | Dm   [INTRO bass-line first 2 bars]        | A      G       | F  E
In the  summertime...       In the  summer-time...                       In the  summer-time...



[repeat CHORUS1]

[end on A]