Hard Sun Indio (Gordon Peterson) no official website, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indio_(music) Album: Big Harvest (1989) DADGAD tuning capo 1 D (000200) C (032000) or (032030) Am (002200) or (002230) G (550000) or (520000) Intro: G D / / /G D / / /G D / / /G D / / /G D C When I walk beside her, I am the better man G D When I look to leave her, I always stagger back again D C Once I built an ivory tower, so I could worship from above G D And when I climb down to be set free, she took me in again Chorus: D Am There's a big, a big hard sun G D Beatin' on the big people in the big hard world When she comes to greet me, she is mercy at my feet (when I) When I stay to pillage her, she just throws it back at me Once I dug an early grave, to find a better land She just smiled and laughed at me, and took her blues back again Chorus x 2 And when I go to cross that river she is, comfort by my side When I try to understand, she just opens up her hands Violin solo over verse chords Chorus Once I stood to lose her, when I saw what I had done Mmm Burned down and threw away the hours, of her garden and her sun So I tried to warn her, and turned to see her weep Mmm 40 days and 40 nights, and it's still coming down on me Chorus repeat multiple times and fade