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WHY DOES THE SUN SHINE? (THE SUN IS A MASS OF INCANDESCENT GAS)
 by Hy Zaret & Lou Singer

 1    +    2    +    3    +    4    +    1    +    2    +    3    +    4    +
 Intro:
 F - Bb -
 F - - -
 
 Chorus:
     F        -       Bb           -
 The sun is a mass of incandescent gas,
     F      -       C       -
 A gigantic nuclear furnace
       F           -          Bb  -
 Where hydrogen is built into helium
      F              C             F  /  Bb  F
 At a temperature of millions of degrees.
 
 1.
 |: F        Bb         F     Bb
 Yo ho, it's hot - the sun is not
     F         -         C    -
 A place where we could live;
     F       -             Bb    -
 But here on Earth there'd be no life
     C                F  /  Bb  F  :|
 Without the light it gives.
 
 |: F        Bb         F       Bb
 We need its light, we need its heat,
     F         -         C    -
 We need its energy;
     F       -        Bb    -
 Without the sun, without a doubt
         C             F  /  Bb  F  :|
 There'd be no you and me.
 
 Chorus
 
     F      Bb
 The sun is hot...
 
         It is so hot that everything on it is a gas.  Iron, copper,
         aluminum, and many others.
 
     F      Bb
 The sun is large...
 
         If the sun were hollow, a million Earths could fit inside.  And
         yet, the sun is only a middle-sized star.
 
     F      Bb   C
 The sun is far away...
 
         About 93 million miles away - and that's why it looks so small.
 
 |:  F              Bb
 And even when it's out of sight
     C                    F /  Bb  F  :|
 The sun shines night and day.
 
 |:  F         Bb        F         Bb
 The sun gives heat; the sun gives light -
     F         -      C    -
 The sunlight that we see;
     F       -      Bb    -
 The sunlight comes from our own sun's
 C          F  /  Bb  F  :|
 Atomic energy...
 
         Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing
         machine.  The heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear
         reactions of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and helium.
 
 Chorus:
     F        -       Bb           -
 The sun is a mass of incandescent gas,
     F      -       C       -
 A gigantic nuclear furnace
       F           -          Bb  -
 Where hydrogen is built into helium
      F              C             F  /  Bb  F
 At a temperature of millions of degrees.
 
 1    +    2    +    3    +    4    +    1    +    2    +    3    +    4    +
 -E.M.
ok, i'm still asking for help on this, but i mad some progress last night:

"Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas" 
by They Might Be Giants


  the sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace

E -9--11--9--9------------8------------------------------9---11--9-
B --------------11--9--11---11--9-------------9--9--9-10-----------
G ----------------------------------11--10-11----------------------
D -----------------------------------------------------------------
A -----------------------------------------------------------------
E -----------------------------------------------------------------

  where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees

E --9---11-11-9--9-----------------------------------------------------------
B -------------------11---9-9--11-9----------9--9--9---9---11--11--9---9-----
G ---------------------------------11-11-11-------------------------------11-
D ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
A ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------


any suggestions?  i haven't worked on the intro yet.

thanks,
nathan
Ok, this is pretty rough but it sounds good. The rythum in this is bad
if not completely wrong, so ignore it.

The sun is a mass...
---------------------------------------------------
-1--3--1-1---------------------------------1-3-1---
------------2---0-2-0-------------------2----------
--------------3--------3--0-----3--3-3-------------
----------------------------3-3--------------------
---------------------------------------------------

Then vary the same notes to get the right rythum for the words. 

The sun is hot... (again for the sun is large)
-----------------
--3--1-----------
-------2---------
---------3-------
-----------------
-----------------

The sun is far away...
----------------
--3--1----------
-------2-0---0--
-----------3----
----------------
----------------

Then the ending bit, sorry don't know the words.

-----------------------------------------------
------------------------1-1-1-1----------------
-------0-2---0-2-3---0-------------------------
----3------3---------------------3-------------
--3--------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------
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