Don Williams – This Side Of The Sun (Guitar)

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I thought I'd be an angel

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And fly on astral skies

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I thought I'd wear a fanciful disguise

          C       D
And It's taken me a lotta time

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To find out I'm not one

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An outlaw on the run,

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On this side of the sun.

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I hoped I'd be a champion 

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And live without a care

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I thought I'd change the world, 

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Make it just and fair

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But my youth slipped by before my eyes

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Much to my surprise

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Before I had begun, 

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On this side of the sun.

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Out on this end of the wind

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Winter's coming 'round the bend

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You pray for rain, before you know,

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You're standin' in a foot of snow

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So you pull your coat up to your chin

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Pick your shovel up again

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'Cause your work is never done, 

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On this side of the sun.

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I took it to a fortune teller

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I thought that she might help me

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She looked into my eyes 

           C         D
And smiled mysteriously

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But she didn't know as much as me

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I stared back, dejectedly

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'Cause I know where she's from, 

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This side of the sun.

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Out behind these prison walls,

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Dark clouds come and hard rains fall

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You pause a moment for a dream,

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They row you gently down the stream

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You wake up angry in the night,

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Jump up, ready for the fight

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But the war is never won 

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On this side of the sun.

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Now they tell me music 

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Can free a person's soul

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So I sing a song everywhere I go

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But It's not much different than before

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I'm still looking for the door

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I wonder if there is one,

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On this side of the sun...