C        C        C        C
C        C        C        C
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F        F        C        C

[Verse 1]
            C                                            C
I choose my eyes wide open and my heart half-broken everytime
         F                                                    C
over the gilded golden shackle and the reassuring sentimental lie.
              C                                                C
I've seen the rolling meadows and the cruelest ghettos in this town,
           F                                                           C
I know the baker and the undertaker and the girl with the stars on her gown.

[Pre-Chorus]
        F                                      F                       C         G
But the song that sounds the best to me is the course of the maple tree
     F                                    F                          C      G
that river bends in through the sea. It's course is fixed and so are we. It seems.

[Chorus]
             C  C      G  C     F   C    G      G
But I've got sunshine, sunshine all over me,
    C     C     G    C         F   C G      G
and brown eyes, blue skies are all I see.

[Verse 2]
         C                                   C
I do not care to offer any commentary on the world,
       F                                                   C
I only sing for the pleasure and for a certain sentimental girl.
          C                                                       Am
I did not come to establish any new worlds up somewhere up in the clouds,
               F                                                                     C
I just want to make love in the morning, work 'til evening and then watch the sun go down.

[Pre-Chorus]
         F                             F                         C         G
Over the aimless and upward climb, the hidden hand and searching vine,
     F                              F                          C      G
this river bends into the sea. It's course is fixed and so are we. It seems.

[Chorus]
             C  C      G  C     F   C    G      G
But I've got sunshine, sunshine all over me,
    C     C     G    C         F   C G      G
and brown eyes, blue skies are all I see.

[Bridge]
        F                 G
And the strangest food it grows from the ledge.
   F                       G                   G
My friends, my friends, go near to the edge.

[Chorus]
             C  C      G  C     F   C    G      G
But I've got sunshine, sunshine all over me,
    C     C     G    C         F   C G      G
and brown eyes, blue skies are all I see.

[Chorus]
             C  C      G  C     F   C    G      G
But I've got sunshine, sunshine all over me,
    C     C     G    C         F   C G      G
and brown eyes, blue skies are all I see.

[Outro]
              C                                                  F
Those who are mining for gold get prematurely old, trying not to disappear.
        C
But I'm just a ditchdigger. When I'm gone, forget that I was here.