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

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

[Pre-Chorus]
        F                                      F      
But the song that sounds the best to me is the course 
                 C         G
of the maple tree
     F                                    F         
that river bends in through the sea. It's course is 
                 C      G
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                                       
I only sing for the pleasure and for a certain 
            C
sentimental girl.
          C                                            
I did not come to establish any new worlds up somewhere
           Am
 up in the clouds,
               F                                   
I just want to make love in the morning, work 'til 
                                  C
evening and then watch the sun go down.

[Pre-Chorus]
         F                             F               
Over the aimless and upward climb, the hidden hand and 
          C         G
searching vine,
     F                              F                  
this river bends into the sea. It's course is fixed and
        C      G
 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                                    
Those who are mining for gold get prematurely old, 
              F
trying not to disappear.
        C
But I'm just a ditchdigger. When I'm gone, forget that 
I was here.