Sunset chords by Roy Orbison

Chords with lyrics

Sunset:Roy Orbison.
Album - In Dreams - Released on
MONUMENT Records in 1963.


INTRO: C minorCm

#1.
C minorCm
I see her when the sun is high, the clouds
             F minorFm
write her name across the sky.
     G+G
But, the boss man is giving me the eye.
G+G
I'd better go to work, but I'll see her by
  C minorCm
and by.

CHORUS:
  C majorC
At sunset, I'm gonna see my sweetheart, gonna
AbAb     C majorC
hold her so tight.
C majorC                  AbAb
At sunset I'm gonna see my baby, my baby,
 D MajorD   A minorAm    C minorCm Eb MajorEb DbmDbm
tonight..yi..yight.


#2.
DbmDbm
I see the shadows on the run, I see the setting
    GbmGbm
of the sun.
  AbAb
At last my working day is done.
AbAb                 DbmDbm
The setting of the sun has finally come.


CHORUS:
   DbDb
It's sunset, I'm gonna hold my sweetheart, gonna
A augmentedA      DbDb
hold her so tight.
DbDb                  A augmentedA
It's sunset I'm gonna see my baby, my baby,
 Eb MajorEb     DbDb  DbmDbm DmDm
toniiiiight-i-ight.

#3.
DmDm
I see her in the twighlight standing there.
                G minorGm
The wind softly stirring in her hair.
  A augmentedA
The sweetest fruit the earth can bear.
A augmentedA             DmDm
So young, so warm, and so rare.


OUTRO:
D MajorD
It's sunset, at last I'm with my sweetheart.
  Bb majorBb     D MajorD
I'm holding her tight.
D MajorD
It's sunset and now I'm with my baby.
  Bb majorBb   E MajorE  C majorC  D MajorD
And she is mine toooniiiight.



A augmentedA sixties smash from Kraziekhat.