Paper sun (1967)
D7 - D
- D7 - D (2x)
G
1. Though you think you're having good times,
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with
the boy that you just met (paper sun),
D
kicking
sand from beach to beach, your clothes all soaking wet.
G
But if you look around and see
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a shadow
on the run (on the run)
D
don't
be too upset because, it's just a paper sun.
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A
+ Oh, paper sun.
(2x) + D7 - D - D7 - D (2x)
G
2. In the room where you've been sleeping,
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all
your clothes are thrown about (paper sun),
D
cigarettes
burn window sills, your meter's all run out.
G
But there again it’s nothing,
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you
just split when day is done (day is done)
D
pitching
lips to nowhere, hung up on the paper sun.
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+ Oh, paper sun. (2x) + D7 - D - D7 - D
(2x)
D7 D D7 - D
Standing in the cool of my
room,
D7 D D7 - D
fresh
cut flowers give me sweet perfume.
D F
G D D F G
D
Too much sun will burn ! Too much sun
will burn.
G
3. When you're feeling tired and lonely
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you
see people going home (paper sun),
D
you
can't make the train fare or the sixpence for the phone.
G
And icicles you're crying
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from
your cheek have just begun (don’t be sad),
D
don't
be sad, good times are had beneath the paper sun.
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+ Oh, paper sun. (2x) + A - A7
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+ Daylight breaks while you
sleep on the sand,
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A
a
seagull is stealing the rings from your hand.
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That boy who had given you so
much fun,
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has
left you so cold in the paper sun.
A
G A
In the paper sun, in the paper
sun ...
(orig. = no capo; video = capo 7th (Traffic)