Flower In The Sun chords by Janis Joplin

Flower In The Sun by Sam Andrew, performed by Janis Joplin 1970

Intro - F#m (mute) F#m (mute) F#m (mute) F#m (mute)  Bm (ring)

E                   D7                   F#m           A7
Oh please don't you think baby that I am wrong to cry, yeah.
E             D7
You loved me, too,
F#m                                A7
So how come you just sit there and laugh
              Bm
And laugh and laugh and laugh ?
Bm                   C#m
Things just can't be this way
                 F#m
And not for very long
F#m                              D
No no no no no no no no no no no no no no.
                E                       F#m    Bm
Our love affair said it's just history, yes it is.

E              D7                   F#m                 A7
And I tried to love you in my own way, I think that you know I did.
E               D7
But to have you here,
F#m                              A7        Bm
to see you living, oh so near to me, yeah, yeah, yeah.
           C#m
Oh but you are distant and so it's dead
F#m                              D
And so often people are glad to be old, yeah yeah,
E                       F#m               G  Ab
Our love affair is just history, yes it is.

A            G  Ab A
Once in a green time a flower
A            G  Ab A
Oh, fell in love with the sun.
A            G  Ab A
The passion lasted for an hour
             F#m             Bm
And then she wilted from her loved one.

-- break -- rhthym plays Part A Chords (first eight-second verse and lead into Part B with G slide up to A)

E              D7                   F#m                 A7       E               D7

F#m                              A7        Bm            C#m     F#m                              D

E                       F#m               G  Ab

-- end break --

A            G  Ab A
Once in a green time a flower
A            G  Ab A
Oh, fell in love with the sun.
A            G  Ab A
The passion lasted for an hour
             F#m             Bm
And then she wilted from her loved one.

E                   D7          F#m              A7
And I see you looking up at the sky, how high it is, yeah.
E                   D7
You wonder if there is, whoa another me
F#m                  A7
Now how can that be, how can it be ?
Bm                         C#m                F#m
Well, I sit here and I ask you, why all this ?
F#m                              D
I just got toni-ni-ni-night
                E                F#m
Our love affair said it's just a history
                D
But baby, baby, I said it's over, Charlie,
E                     F#m
I can't stand another lo-lo-lonely,
    A7
I'm never too lonely.

D
It's over baby,
E                     F#m
Where were you when I wanted ya
              A7
And needed ya right by my side ?
          D     E     F#m               A7
I said-a, baby, baby, don't you feel me moving,
D     E     F#m         A7
Baby, don't you hear me cry ?
D     E     F#m         A7
I know I hurt you, but Lord don't you know I cried,
D     E     F#m         A7
I know I hurt you, but babe don't you know I tried,
D     E     F#m         G  Ab A
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.