Soulshine Acoustic chords by The Allman Brothers Band

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
G+G   D MajorD  E minorEm FF   G+G
G MajorG   D MajorD  E minorEm FF   G+G

Verse:
G+G         D MajorD          C majorC            G+G
  When you can't find the light, that got you through a cloudy day
G+G            D MajorD          C majorC           G+G
  When the stars ain't shinin' bright, you feel like you've lost you're way
G+G         D MajorD       C majorC         G+G
  When the candle light of home, burn so very far away
G+G              D MajorD      E minorEm            FF
  Well you got to let your soul shine, just like my daddy used to say

Chorus:
        G+G              D MajorD
He used to say soulshine, it's better than sunshine
         C majorC                G+G
It's better than moonshine, damn sure better than rain
        G+G              D MajorD
Hey now people don't mind, we all get this way sometime
          E minorEm     FF             G+G
You got to let your soul shine, shine 'til the break of day

Verse:
G+G              D MajorD      C majorC        G+G
  I grew up thinking that I had it made, make it on my own
G+G          D MajorD       C majorC        G+G
  Life can take the strongest man,  make him feel so alone
G+G             D MajorD     C majorC             G+G
  Now sometimes I feel a cold wind, blowing through my aching bones
G+G             D MajorD           E minorEm           FF
  I think back to what my Daddy said; he said, "Boy, in this darkness before the dawn"

Chorus:
     G+G              D MajorD
Let your soulshine, it's better than sunshine
         C majorC                G+G
It's better than moonshine, damn sure better than rain
        G+G              D MajorD
Yeah now people don't mind, we all get this way sometime
          E minorEm     FF             G+G
You got to let your soul shine, shine 'til the break of day

Bridge:
E minorEm          C majorC
  Sometimes a man can feel this emptiness
    C majorC                G+G
Like a woman has robbed him of his very soul
 B minorBm              C majorC
A augmentedA woman too, God knows, she can feel like this
FF                     D MajorD
And when your world seems cold, you got to let your spirit take control

Chorus:
       G+G              D MajorD
Talkin' 'bout soulshine, it's better than sunshine
         C majorC                G+G
It's better than moonshine, damn sure better than rain
        G+G              D MajorD
Yeah now people don't mind, we all feel this way sometime
          E minorEm     FF             G+G
You got to let your soul shine, shine 'til the break of day

           D MajorD
Yeah it's better than sunshine
         C majorC                G+G
It's better than moonshine, damn sure better than rain
        G+G              D MajorD
Yeah now people don't mind, we all get this way sometime
          E minorEm     FF             G+G
You got to let your soul shine, shine 'til the break of day


Chorus once or twice more to finish:
G+G   D MajorD   C majorC     G+G
G MajorG   D MajorD   E minorEm  FF   G+G
G MajorG   D MajorD   C majorC     G+G
G MajorG   D MajorD   E minorEm  FF   G+G

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