Paper Sun
Traffic

(Winwood - Capaldi - Wood - Mason)


 Intro:

         (tabla fill)

         sitar arr. for guitar [4X]:

         D5
          v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v
         -----------------|-----------------
         -----------------|-----------------
         -----7-----5-----|-4-----2---------
         -0---------------|-----------------
         -----------------|-----------------
         -----------------|-----------------

 Verse 1:

                      G
         Though you think you're having good times
                   E
         With the boy that you just met (paper sun)
         Gm
         Kicking sand from beach to beach
                 D
         Your clothes all soaking wet
             G
         But if you look around and see
             E
         A shadow on the run (on the run)
         Gm                               D
         Don't be too upset because it's just a paper sun

 Chorus:

         (guitar and sitar, 2X):

          Cm                Bb      G         A
          v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v
         -----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------
         ---------------1-|-3-1-----------3-|-2---------------|-----------------
         -------------0---|-----3---0-2-3---|-----------------|-----------------
         -------0-1-3-----|-------3---------|-----------------|-----------------
         -2-3-2-----------|-----------------|---------0-0---0-|-0-------0-0---0-
         -----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------
          A                pa...    per      sun

 [repeat intro]

 Verse 2:

         In the room where you've been sleeping
         All your clothes are thrown about
         Cigarettes burn window sills 
         Your meter's all run out
         But then again its nothing
         You just split when day is done
         Pitching lips [?] to nowhere, hung up on the paper sun

 [repeat chorus]

 [repeat intro]

 Bridge:

         D5 [w/sitar as per intro]
         Standing in the cool of my room
         Fresh cut flowers give me sweet perfume
         Too much sun will burn
                             D        F   G    D 
                           (Too much sun will burn)
         Too much sun will burn
                             D        F   G    D 
                           (Too much sun will burn)

 Verse 3:

         When you're feeling tired and lonely
         You see people going home
         You can't make the train fare
         Or the sixpence for the phone
         And icicles you're crying 
         From your cheek have just begun
         Don't be sad, good times are had
         Beneath the paper sun

 [repeat chorus]

 Coda [separated from "Paper Sun", titled "We're A Fade, You Missed This",
       and moved to last track of US LP]

         Asus4              A
          / / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /

         Asus4                                   A
         Daylight breaks while you sleep on the sand
          Asus4                                    A
         A seagull is stealing the ring from your hand
             Asus4                           A
         That boy who had given you so much fun
             Asus4                    A
         Has left you so cold in the paper sun

         (continue and fade)


 -- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers

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