Mean Old Sun
Recorded by Turnpike Troubadours
Album: Single (2023)

(Non Capo)

(Intro.)
|(C) / (Dm) / |(C) / (Dm) / |

(Verse)
Empty (Dm)promises I’ve given
Hollow (C)heart beats in my (Dm)chest
And every (G)word of sterling (Dm)silver
Stirred butter-(C)flies (G) beneath your (Dm)breast

(Verse)
Still un-(Dm)touched by ties a-binding
Goin’ (C)where the Gulf breeze (Dm)blows
No ring of (G)gold around your (Dm)finger
No ring of (C)brass (G) run through my (Dm)nose

(Chorus)
(C) Headlong for the (Dm)wall now honey
(C) Still coming up (Dm)like a rose
(C) Dead still in the (F)garden
(C)Waiting for the reveille (Dm)
The (C)dawn is yet to (Dm)dry the dew from (C)off my Sunday (Dm)clothes
That (C)mean old sun better (F)rise up soon if its (C)ever gonna (G)set on (Dm)me

(Verse)
Hear the (Dm)song she sang in darkness
Tearful, (C)fair, and free and (Dm)fine
You’re the (G)one she softly (Dm)whispers
My ca-(C)na-(G)-ry in the (Dm)mine

(Chorus)
(C) Headlong for the (Dm)wall now honey
(C) Still coming up (Dm)like a rose
 
(C) Dead still in the (F)garden
(C)Waiting for the reveille (Dm)
The (C)dawn is yet to (Dm)dry the dew from (C)off my Sunday (Dm)clothes
That (C)mean old sun better (F)rise up soon if its (C)ever gonna (G)set on (Dm)me

(Solo)
|(C) / (Dm) / |(C) / (F)(Dm)|(Dm) / (F) / |(C) / (Dm) / |
|(C) / (Dm) / |(C) / (Dm) / |(Dm) / (F) / |(C)(F)(Dm) / |(C)(F)(Dm) / |
 
(Verse)
(Dm) I met a man, pale gray with wisdom
Told me (C)faith will come col-(Dm)lect
Hard tempered (G)steel bites at my (Dm)ankles
Soft cotton (C)rove (G) burns at my (Dm)neck

(Chorus)
(C) Headlong for the (Dm)wall now honey
(C) Still coming up (F)like a (Dm)rose
(C) Dead still in the (F)garden
(C)Waiting for the reveille (Dm)
The (C)dawn is yet to (Dm)dry the dew from (C)off my Sunday (Dm)clothes
That (C)mean old sun better (F)rise up soon if its (C)ever gonna (G)set on (Dm)me

(Outro.)
That (C)mean old sun better (F)rise up soon if its (C)ever gonna (G)set on (Dm)me - - - - -