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Why Does the Sun Shine

They Might Be Giants
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Song

Artist: They Might Be Giants
Song: Why Does The Sun Shine? ( The sun is a mass of incadescent gas )
Album: Severe Tire Damage
Intro chords: ( F Bb F C F Bb F )
Keyboard intro:
       
e|-----10-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--13----13-13-10----------10----------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------12-10-12----12-10----------------------10-10----------11-10----|
D|-----------------------------------12-------10-10-10-10-------12-12-10----------|
A|--------------------------------------10-10-------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Chorus

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace.
Where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees  

Verse

Yo, ho! It's hot, the sun is not a place where we could live.
But here on earth there'd be no life without the light it gives.  
We need its light, we need its heat, we need its energy.
Without the sun, without a doubt, there'd be no you and me.  

Chorus

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace.
Where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees  

Bridge

The sun is hot....
(SPOKEN: The sun is so hot... that everything on it is a gas.
Copper, iron, aluminum, on the surface of the sun, are all gas!)
The sun is large...
(SPOKEN: The sun is so large... a million earths could fit inside,
and yet the sun's just a middle-sized star!)
The sun is far away...
(SPOKEN: It's about ninty-three million miles away. And that's why it looks so small!)
But even when it's out of sight, the sun shines night and day.  
The sun gives light, the sun gives heat, the sunlight that we see
The sunlight comes from our own sun's atomic energy  
(SPOKEN: Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-crushing machine. The
heat and light of the sun are caused by the nuclear reactions between hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and helium.)

Chorus

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace.
Where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees  

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