Southern Sun Chords

KeyA CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays697

Southern Sun by Boy And Bear is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, F, Am, G, Am2 and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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A
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16
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A 
In all you'll see; 
          F 
Was it that came down on me that night? 
A                             F 
 A conjury, I held on to that moment in black 

Just to make it alive... 

Verse strumming intro 
   F  Am  G  Am2 
e -0--0---0---0---| 
B -1--1---3---0---| 
G -2--2---4---5---| 
D -3--2---5---7---| 
A -3--0---5---7---| 
E -1--0---3---0---| 


F                                 Am   F 
You sit out there in the coverin'- 
F                                 Am2  G 
In the baskings of the holy night 
G                            Am   G 
And I was lucid and conscious 
G                            F 
And hovering like a firefly 
F                                 Am   F 
I?m lying stretched out on the canopy 
F                                 Am2  G 
It put it's arms out slow 
G                            Am   G 
And I heard the whispers of silence 
G 
Floating down from the radio 


F 
So come on, come on I'm ready now 
                                             G 
I got the feeling honey like I'm ready to roll... ohhh 
F 
You see I?m not gonna wait till the end of me 
                                                G 
Cause I got the burning fire in the bed of my soul ahhhh ohhh 



verse 2 
I saw the light from a kettle gun 
16 days under a Southern Sun 
And there were times when I thought that 
I wouldn't mind it if I lost my mind out there 
You wouldn't believe me if I told you so 
The things I saw were enough to make the man in me a man in me 
Mmm make a man of me 


F 
So come on, come on I?m ready now 
                                                   G 
Go get your things out honey, let?s get ready to roll... 
F 
Oh I can feel the wave coming over me 
                                                            G 
I?ve been waiting for this day too long just to let it all go... 



BRIDGE 

F 
As a child I was wonder-eyed 
Am 
At the thought that I might know 
F                           C      G 
A life in the ecstasy of rock?n'roll O-oh-oh ... 
F 
Now taking it slow... I?m an arrow in a bow... 
                              G 
You?d think that I would know... What it is that makes me roll... 

Chorus 1 

Solo
             #1                        #2 
e --------------------------------------------------7b8------| 
B --10-p8-h10-----------------10-p8-h10-----------8----------| 
G -------------9--7---5--\2--------------9--7--h9------------| 
D -----------------------------------------------------------| 
A -----------------------------------------------------------| 
E -----------------------------------------------------------| 



 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante