D  (000200)
C  (032000) or (032030)
Am (002200) or (002230)
G  (550000) or (520000)


[Intro]
G D / / /G D / / /G D / / /G D / / /G   


[Verse 1]
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
                    

[Verse 2]
D                               C
When she comes to greet me, she is mercy at my feet  (when I)
G                                    D
When I stay to pillage her, she just throws it back at me
D                             C
Once I dug an early grave, to find a better land
          G                                     D
She just smiled and laughed at me, and took her blues back again


[Chorus] (x2)
D                         Am    
There's a big, a big hard sun
                   G                      D
Beatin' on the big people in the big hard world


[Verse 3]
D                                         C
And when I go to cross that river she is, comfort by my side
       G                           D
When I try to understand, she just opens up her hands
D  C  G  D
(Violin solo over verse chords)
D  C  G  D


[Chorus]
        D                         Am    
Ohh Oh, There's a big, a big hard sun
                   G                      D
Beatin' on the big people in the big hard world


[Verse 4]
D                                C
Once I stood to lose her, when I saw what I had done
G                                                D
Mmm Burned down and threw away the hours, of her garden and her sun
D                           C
So I tried to warn her, and turned to see her weep
   G                                      D
Mmm 40 days and 40 nights, and it's still coming down on me


[Chorus] (x5)
D                         Am    
There's a big, a big hard sun
                   G                      D
Beatin' on the big people in the big hard world