A#5 F5 D#5 A#5 
When you can't find the light, that got you through the cloudy days,  
A#5 F5 D#5 A#5 
When the stars ain't shinin' bright, you feel like you've lost you're way,  
A#5 F5 D#5 A#5 
When those candle lights of home, burn so very far away,  
A#5 F5 G5 G#5 
Well you got to let your soul shine, just like my daddy used to say.  
A#5 F5 
He used to say soulshine, it's better than sunshine,  
D#5 A#5 
It's better than moonshine, damn sure better than rain.  
A#5 F5 
Hey now people don't mind, we all get this way sometime,  
G5 G#5 A#5 
Got to let your soul shine, shine till the break of day. 

I grew up thinkin' that I had it made, gonna make it on my own.  

Life can take the strongest man, make him feel so alone.  

Now and then I feel a cold wind, blowin' through my achin' bones,  

I think back to what my daddy said, he said "Boy, in the darkness before the dawn:"  
 
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G5 D#5 
Sometimes a man can feel this emptiness,  
D#5 A#5 
Like a woman has robbed him of his very soul.  
D5 D#5 
A woman too, God knows, she can feel like this.  
G#5 F5 
And when your world seems cold, you got to let your spirit take control.  
 
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