Todd Snider - Sunshine guitar tab

Drop D tuning

verse

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A---7-7-7-7---9------7-7-7-7---9------7-7-7-7---2-2--x2

D---0-0-0-0---0------0-0-0-0---0------0-0-0-0---0-0----

chorus

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A---5-5-5-5-5----7-7-7-7-7----5-5-5-5-5----7-7-7-7-7--

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Standing out on the edge of a building

Watching the traffic below

Drinking and beer and thinking of jumping

Not far from ready to go

Below me the crowd slowly gathers around

Cops cars with news cameras too

I just can’t get out of the pain I’m in

I don’t know what else to do

Sometimes I feel like I’m so uninvited

Like something so out of touch

They tell me depression runs in the family

But that don’t help me much

The crowds yelling “jump” over cop on a bullhorn

Making him harder to hear

He’s saying something about having so much to live for

I’m almost through with my beer

(whistle)

Squinting my eyes to see through the sunlight

The crowd is even bigger now

There’s no point in wondering what afterlife’s like

It don’t matter anyhow

We’re already in hell as far as I can tell

Just listen to these people scream

This feels like a rally in a high school field house

I feel like the captain of the team

Well, here goes the captain of the team

(whistle)

Follow the light to the Garden of Eden

Stand at the pearly gate

St. Peter comes over

His hand on my shoulder

He tells me I’ve got to wait

He says you know you can’t kill yourself and still get in here kid

But, you look like a victim of circumstance

So, I’m just gonna break every bone in your body

And give you another chance

Waking up slowly

Looking around me

Alone in recovery room

But closing my eyes I can see the new sunrise

Over acres of flowers in bloom

I don’t know when it will be

But the next time you see me

I’ll be tapping to a whole new beat

Walking souls into the holes of my shoes

Down the sunny side of the street

Sunshine

(whistle)