CAPO 1
Intro: D [eight bars]
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
When I climb down to be set free, she took me in again
D Am7
There's a big, a big hard sun
G D
Beatin’ on the big people, in a big hard world
D C
When she comes to greet me, she is mercy at my feet
G D
When I see her inner charm, 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 rules back again
D Am7
There's a big, a big hard sun
G D
Beatin’ on the big people, in a big hard world
D Am7
There's a big, a big hard sun
G D
Beatin’ on the big people, in a big hard world
D [four bars]
D C
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
D C G D
D Am7
There's a big, a big hard sun
G D
Beatin’ on the big people, in a big hard world
D [four bars]
D C
Once I stood to lose her when I saw what I had done
G D
Bowed down and threw away the hours of her garden and her sun
D C
So I tried to warn her, I turned to see her weep
G D
40 days and 40 nights and it's still coming down on me
D Am7
There's a big, a big hard sun
G D
Beatin’ on the big people, in a big hard world
[Repeat 8 times and fade]
DROP D CHORDS
D 0 0 0 2 3 2
C x 3 2 0 1 0
G 5 5 0 0 0 3
Am7 x 0 2 0 1 0
Source: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/eddie_vedder/hard_sun_chords_1760627