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 
  G5
 -3- | 
 -0- | 
 -0- | 
 -0- | 
 -5- | 
 -5- | 

Tabbed by Newfie49

D5       
When I walk beside her 
C5
I am the better man
G5
When I look to leave her 
           D5
I always stagger back again

D5
Once I built an Ivory tower 
C5
so I could worship from above
G5
And when I climbed down to be set free 
    D5
she took me in again

CHORUS
D5       
there's a big
                A5
A big hard sun
                G5
beaten on the big people
                D5
in the big hard world
END CHORUS

D5
When she comes to greet me
C5
She is mercy at my feet
G5
When I stay to pillage her
           D5
She just throws it back at me
D5
Once I dug an early grave 
C5
To find a better land
G5
She just smiled and laughed at me 
               D5
And took her blues back again

CHORUS X2

D5
When I go to cross that river
C5
She is comfort by my side
G5
When I try to understand
        D5
She just opens up her hands

INSTRUMENTAL BREAK
CHORUS

D5
Once I stood to lose her
C5
And when I saw what I had done
G5
Burned down and threw away the hours
       D5
of her garden and her sun

D5
so I tried to warn her
C5
And turned to see her weep
G5
40 days and 40 nights
                 D5
and it's still coming down on me

CHORUS > fade