Boy & Bear – Southern Sun (Guitar)

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(For strumming pattern, tie the last strum of every 2nd bar over to the next bar, as can be seen at the & of beat 8 / beat 9) [Intro Verse] (listen for picking pattern- basically thumb the bass note then pick the rest of the strings)
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---|
*Note you hammer onto, then pull off of normal [Am] between the F's you play the [Am2] quickly when changing to the G [you slide the whole F up to the G]
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
[Chorus]
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]
F                                [Am]   F
I saw the light from a kettle gun

F                           [Am2]  G
16 days under a Southern Sun

G                                       Am   G
And there were times when I thought that

G                                        F
I wouldn't mind it if I lost my mind out there

F                                      [Am]   F
You wouldn't believe me if I told you so

F                                                  G
The things I saw were enough to make the man in me a man in me
[Am2] G Mmm make a man of me [Chorus 2]
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]
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]
[Solo licks]
             #1                        #2
e|--------------------------------------------------7b8------|
B|--10-p8-h10-----------------10-p8-h10-----------8----------|
G|-------------9--7---5--\2--------------9--7--h9------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------|
************************************ | h Hammer-on | p Pull-off | b Bend | \ Slide down ************************************