Chords with lyrics
Flower In The Sun by Sam Andrew, performed by Janis Joplin 1970
Intro - F# minorF#m (mute) F# minorF#m (mute) F# minorF#m (mute) F# minorF#m (mute) B minorBm (ring)
E MajorE D7D7 F# minorF#m A7A7
Oh please don't you think baby that I am wrong to cry, yeah.
E MajorE D7D7
You loved me, too,
F# minorF#m A7A7
So how come you just sit there and laugh
B minorBm
And laugh and laugh and laugh ?
B minorBm C# minorC#m
Things just can't be this way
F# minorF#m
And not for very long
F# minorF#m D MajorD
No no no no no no no no no no no no no no.
E MajorE F# minorF#m B minorBm
Our love affair said it's just history, yes it is.
E MajorE D7D7 F# minorF#m A7A7
And I tried to love you in my own way, I think that you know I did.
E MajorE D7D7
But to have you here,
F# minorF#m A7A7 B minorBm
to see you living, oh so near to me, yeah, yeah, yeah.
C# minorC#m
Oh but you are distant and so it's dead
F# minorF#m D MajorD
And so often people are glad to be old, yeah yeah,
E MajorE F# minorF#m G+G AbAb
Our love affair is just history, yes it is.
A augmentedA G+G AbAb A augmentedA
Once in a green time a flower
A augmentedA G+G AbAb A augmentedA
Oh, fell in love with the sun.
A augmentedA G+G AbAb A augmentedA
The passion lasted for an hour
F# minorF#m B minorBm
And then she wilted from her loved one.
-- break -- rhthym plays Part A augmentedA Chords (first eight-second verse and lead into Part BB with G+G slide up to A augmentedA)
E MajorE D7D7 F# minorF#m A7A7 E MajorE D7D7
F# minorF#m A7A7 B minorBm C# minorC#m F# minorF#m D MajorD
E MajorE F# minorF#m G+G AbAb
-- end break --
A augmentedA G+G AbAb A augmentedA
Once in a green time a flower
A augmentedA G+G AbAb A augmentedA
Oh, fell in love with the sun.
A augmentedA G+G AbAb A augmentedA
The passion lasted for an hour
F# minorF#m B minorBm
And then she wilted from her loved one.
E MajorE D7D7 F# minorF#m A7A7
And I see you looking up at the sky, how high it is, yeah.
E MajorE D7D7
You wonder if there is, whoa another me
F# minorF#m A7A7
Now how can that be, how can it be ?
B minorBm C# minorC#m F# minorF#m
Well, I sit here and I ask you, why all this ?
F# minorF#m D MajorD
I just got toni-ni-ni-night
E MajorE F# minorF#m
Our love affair said it's just a history
D MajorD
But baby, baby, I said it's over, Charlie,
E MajorE F# minorF#m
I can't stand another lo-lo-lonely,
A7A7
I'm never too lonely.
D MajorD
It's over baby,
E MajorE F# minorF#m
Where were you when I wanted ya
A7A7
And needed ya right by my side ?
D MajorD E MajorE F# minorF#m A7A7
I said-a, baby, baby, don't you feel me moving,
D MajorD E MajorE F# minorF#m A7A7
Baby, don't you hear me cry ?
D MajorD E MajorE F# minorF#m A7A7
I know I hurt you, but Lord don't you know I cried,
D MajorD E MajorE F# minorF#m A7A7
I know I hurt you, but babe don't you know I tried,
D MajorD E MajorE F# minorF#m G+G AbAb A augmentedA
Oh baby, oh babe, whoa.
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"Flower In The Sun" is a song by Janis Joplin that for the first time, appeared on the singer's posthumous
In Concert album from 1972, which was released after her death, in 1970.[2]
This song, originally, was recorded by Janis Joplin and her third band to sing with, the Full Tilt Boogie
Band. She recorded it in 1970, when she began her work with the new band.
After Joplin's death, "Flower In The Sun" was included in re-releases of her albums. One of those albums was
the Cheap Thrills album.