Words & music by James Taylor
D G (Play 4x)
DBmEmAF#m
Daybreak finds you up and alive
Bm G D (Fill #1)
Just as though you could touch a star
DBmEmAF#m
But sunset seems to leave you weary alone
BmGD
And wondering who you are
F#mBmF#mBm
Don't deny that lonely feeling babe
EmADF#m
That keeps stealing on you from deep down inside
F#m/C#F#mBmEm
Hey, can't you see that it's no good concealing
ABmC
A feeling it hurts you to hide
(Fill #2) Bm F#m
When you can come home to me
EmAD
Yes, I'm happy to hear what you've got
BmC
To say to me, baby, all the way
(Fill #2) Bm F#m
Girl, you can count on me
CA
Watch those shadows fade away
Em A (Fill #3)
And brighten your night with my day
GADBmEmA
Daybreak, sunset hot and cold
DF#m
Running smiles and tears
EAEA
A bright outside to match your foolish pride
DBmC
But not a word for the lonely years
(Fill #2) Bm F#m
Please come back home to me
EmA
Now you won't have to say
DBmC
That you'll stay with me, baby, no, it's not that way
(Fill #2) Bm F#m
Just come back home to me
CA
Watch those shadows fade away
EmA
And brighten your night with my...
(Same strumming as intro)
DG
Daybreak, sunset
DG
You don't have to cry no more
DG
Now, everything's gonna be just fine
DG
Watch out, baby, here it comes
DG
Right around the corner
Here it comes
D G (Fill #3)
Just brighten your night with my day babe hey hey yeah yeah yeah
Fill #1
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--0^2---2----
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Fill #2 Fill #2 is played as a third,
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--2--------------------------- __3__
--2--------------(back to Bm)- | | | |
--0---2---4----2-------------- | | | |
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(You can come home)
Fill #3
----2-2---2-2---2-2---2--3-3--2--
----3-3---3-3---3-3---3--3-3--3--
----2-2---------------0--0-0--2--
--0-----2-----4----------0-0--0--
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(Emphasis on the bass notes)
Words & music by James Taylor
Released on his self-titled debut with Apple Records (1969)
This tab by
Brad Lewis
blewis@utk.edu