Flower In The Sun chords

Janis Joplin

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  			Flower In The Sun by Sam Andrew, performed by Janis Joplin 1970 

Intro - F#m (mute) F#m (mute) F#m (mute) F#m (mute)  Bm (ring) 

E                   D7                   F#m           A7          
Oh please don't you think baby that I am wrong to cry, yeah. 
E             D7 
You loved me, too, 
F#m                                A7 
So how come you just sit there and laugh 
              Bm 
And laugh and laugh and laugh ? 
Bm                   C#m 
Things just can't be this way 
                 F#m   
And not for very long 
F#m                              D 
No no no no no no no no no no no no no no. 
                E                       F#m    Bm   
Our love affair said it's just history, yes it is. 

E              D7                   F#m                 A7 
And I tried to love you in my own way, I think that you know I did. 
E               D7 
But to have you here,  
F#m                              A7        Bm 
to see you living, oh so near to me, yeah, yeah, yeah. 
           C#m 
Oh but you are distant and so it's dead 
F#m                              D 
And so often people are glad to be old, yeah yeah, 
E                       F#m               G  Ab 
Our love affair is just history, yes it is. 

A            G  Ab A 
Once in a green time a flower 
A            G  Ab A 
Oh, fell in love with the sun. 
A            G  Ab A 
The passion lasted for an hour 
             F#m             Bm 
And then she wilted from her loved one. 

-- break -- rhthym plays Part A Chords (first eight-second verse and lead into Part B with G slide up to A) 

E              D7                   F#m                 A7       E               D7 

F#m                              A7        Bm            C#m     F#m                              D 

E                       F#m               G  Ab 

-- end break -- 

A            G  Ab A 
Once in a green time a flower 
A            G  Ab A 
Oh, fell in love with the sun. 
A            G  Ab A 
The passion lasted for an hour 
             F#m             Bm   
And then she wilted from her loved one. 

E                   D7          F#m              A7  
And I see you looking up at the sky, how high it is, yeah. 
E                   D7 
You wonder if there is, whoa another me 
F#m                  A7 
Now how can that be, how can it be ? 
Bm                         C#m                F#m      
Well, I sit here and I ask you, why all this ? 
F#m                              D 
I just got toni-ni-ni-night 
                E                F#m 
Our love affair said it's just a history 
                D 
But baby, baby, I said it's over, Charlie, 
E                     F#m 
I can't stand another lo-lo-lonely, 
    A7 
I'm never too lonely. 

D 
It's over baby, 
E                     F#m 
Where were you when I wanted ya 
              A7 
And needed ya right by my side ? 
          D     E     F#m               A7 
I said-a, baby, baby, don't you feel me moving, 
D     E     F#m         A7    
Baby, don't you hear me cry ? 
D     E     F#m         A7    
I know I hurt you, but Lord don't you know I cried, 
D     E     F#m         A7    
I know I hurt you, but babe don't you know I tried, 
D     E     F#m         G  Ab A