Gordon Peterson - Big Hard Sun Chords & Tabs

Big Hard Sun | Gordon Peterson (Indio) | 1989
Lyrics are the original ones, not the Vedder version.
Drop D on low E string. You can capo first fret for original tuning, but it’s 
easier to sing without the capo.

All chords normal fingering, except G which is 
  G
 -3-|
 -0-|
 -0-|
 -0-|
 -5-|
 -5-|

Tabbed by Newfie49

D       
When I walk beside her 
Cadd9
I am the better man
G
When I look to leave her 
           D
I always stagger back again

D
Once I built an Ivory tower 
Cadd9
so I could worship from above
G
And when I climbed down to be set free 
    D
she took me in again

CHORUS
D       
there's a big
                Am7
A big hard sun
                G
beaten on the big people
                D
in the big hard world
END CHORUS
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/g/gordon_peterson/big_hard_sun_crd.html ]
D
When she comes to greet me
Cadd9
She is mercy at my feet
G
When I stay to pillage her
           D
She just throws it back at me
D
Once I dug an early grave 
Cadd9
To find a better land
G
She just smiled and laughed at me 
               D
And took her blues back again

CHORUS X2

D
When I go to cross that river
Cadd9
She is comfort by my side
G
When I try to understand
        D
She just opens up her hands

INSTRUMENTAL BREAK
CHORUS

D
Once I stood to lose her
Cadd9
And when I saw what I had done
G
Burned down and threw away the hours
       D
of her garden and her sun

D
so I tried to warn her
Cadd9
And turned to see her weep
G
40 days and 40 nights
                 D
and it's still coming down on me

CHORUS > fade