Govt Mule - Soul Shine Chords

INTRO:

|[N.C.] |[N.C.]|Bb   |Bb    

|F    |./.    |Gm    

|Ab    |Bb    |./.    |./.    

|./.    |./.    |./.    |Gm

|Ab    |Bb    |./.    


VERSE:

Bb                     F  
   When you can't find___ the light  

Eb                              Bb
to guide you through cloud - y  days,____

                      F
when the stars  ain't shin - ing bright   

       Eb                               Bb
and it feels like you've lost your____  way,___

                       F
when the candle lights   of home___

Eb                    Bb
  burn so ver - y far__ a - way

                          F
yeah, you got to let your soul shine.__  

Gm                          Ab
Just like my dad - dy used___ to say,  used to say.


CHORUS:

Bb                                         F
Soul  -  shine______   is better than sun  -  shine

                      Eb                                        Bb
it's better than moon - shine._  It's damn sure better than the rain.____

                                                        F    
Well, now people, don't mind,____ we all feel this way __ some - times.____

                Gm            Ab                               |Bb   |./.
Got to let your soul__ shine, shine 'till the break of day.____


VERSE:

Bb                          F   
  I grew up thinking that I had it made.__  

      Eb               Bb
Gonna make it    on my own.__

                  F
Life can take the strongest man, ____   

Eb                       Bb
   make him feel  so a - lone. ______

                      F
Now and then I feel a cold wind____

Eb                        Bb
blowing through my aching bones. _____

                        F
I think back to what my daddy said.__  

           Gm                      Ab
He said,  "Boy, in the dark - ness just before dawn...


CHORUS:

Bb                                                    F
  Let your soul  -  shine______   it's better than sun  -  shine

                        Eb                                         Bb
I know it's better than moon - shine._  It's damn sure better than rain.____

                                      F    
People now don't you mind,____ we all get this way __ some - times.____

                    Gm            Ab                           |Bb   |Bb   F Gm
You got to let your soul__ shine, shine 'till the break of day.____


BRIDGE:

Gm                                Eb
   Some-times a man      can feel____ this emptiness,___

                                            Bb
like a woman    has robbed him of his ver - y soul, whoa, whoa,   whoa.

      Dm                                 Eb
Well,     a woman too, God knows,  she__ can  feel___ like  this____

             Ab                                                      F  
And when the world seems cold, you got to let your spirit take con - trol.


That's what I tell you.


                     (Guitar solo - 31 measures.)



CHORUS:

               Bb                                         F
Talking 'bout  Soul  -  shine______   is better than sun  -  shine

                 Eb                                         Bb
better than moon - shine._  It's damn sure better than rain.____

                                                 F    
Well now people don't mind,____ we all get this way __ some - times.____

                Gm                     Ab                               
Got to let your soul__ shine.____ Yeah,____ shine on_- and on

Bb                                              F
and on and on.____  I said it's better than sun - shine.___

                      Eb                                        Bb
It's better than moon - shine.  It's damn sure better than rain.

                                                 F
Well now people don't mind,____ we all feel this way __ some - times.____

                Gm                 Ab                           |Bb   |./.  
Got to let your soul__ shine,____  shine till the break of day. ___


                 (Ends with a guitar solo - 37 measures)