Biography:
Shawn Colvin (born January 10, 1956 in Vermillion, South Dakota) is an American musician. Best known for her hit single "Sunny Came Home" from the album "A Few Small Repairs".
Colvin's formative years were spent in the town of Carbondale, Illinois, where she attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She learned to play guitar at the age of 10. Her first public concert was at age 15 at the University of Illinois campus. Colvin cites Joni Mitchell as a primary influence on her music
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Other songs:
- A Whole New You
- Cry Like An Angel
- Diamond In The Rough
- Even Here We Are
- Fill Me Up
- Get Out Of This House
- Heart On Ice
- Hold On
- I Dont Know Why
- I Dont Need Anything This Christmas
- I Used To Be A King
- If I Were Brave
- If These Walls Could Speak
- Ill Say Im Sorry Now
- Killing The Blues
- Knowing What I Know
- Let It Slide
- Never Saw Blue Like That
- New Thing Now
- Object Of My Affection
- One Cool Remove
- Polaroids
- Ricochet In Time
- Round Of Blues
- Satin Sheets
- Shotgun Down The Avalanche
- Someday
- Suicide Alley
- Summer Dress
- Sunny Came Home
- Talk Around Town
- Texas Blues
- The Bird
- The Facts About Jimmy
- These Four Walls
- Trouble
- Twilight
- When You Know
- Wild Country
- Witchita Skyline
- You And The Mona Lisa
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[Intro]
A (2 bars)
[Verse 1]
A
I put on my finest summer dress
A
So light and thin, it was my best
D Bm
I brushed my hair, I held my breath
A
I went out to face the wilderness
E D A
I went out to face the wilderness
[Verse 2]
A
Men in hats, boys on bikes
A
Perfect girls, baby dykes
D Bm
Superstars, blighted ones
A
I went out to face them one by one
E D A
I went out to face them, one by one
[Chorus]
G D/F# G A
Goodbye Maryann
G D A
As you turn to watch me
G D/F# G A
Don't cry Maryann
Bm C#m D E
And don't try to stop me
[Verse 3]
A
Cause I'm gonna go where the lights are bright
A
Where sacred secrets sail like kites
D Bm
We've been sleeping girl all our lives
A
And we never lived no we just survived
E D A
And we never lived. We just survived
[Verse 4]
A
I'll take my heart, I'll take my key
A
I'll find out who, who could care for me
D Bm
Are there pots of gold, are there floods and fires
F#m A
Are there thieves and beggars, saints and liars
E D A
Are there thieves and beggars, saints and liars?
[Chorus]
G D/F# G A
Goodbye Maryann
G D A
As you turn to watch me
G D/F# G A
Don't cry Maryann
Bm C#m D E
And don't try to stop me
[Verse 5]
A
I put on my finest summer dress
A
So light and thin, torn at the chest
D
I brushed my hair, I held my breath
A
I went out to face the wilderness
E D A
I went out to face the wilderness
[Instrumental]
(chords as in verse)
A
A
D Bm
A
E D A
[Outro]
G D/F# G A
Maryann...
(fade out repeating)
G D/F# G A
A (2 bars)
[Verse 1]
A
I put on my finest summer dress
A
So light and thin, it was my best
D Bm
I brushed my hair, I held my breath
A
I went out to face the wilderness
E D A
I went out to face the wilderness
[Verse 2]
A
Men in hats, boys on bikes
A
Perfect girls, baby dykes
D Bm
Superstars, blighted ones
A
I went out to face them one by one
E D A
I went out to face them, one by one
[Chorus]
G D/F# G A
Goodbye Maryann
G D A
As you turn to watch me
G D/F# G A
Don't cry Maryann
Bm C#m D E
And don't try to stop me
[Verse 3]
A
Cause I'm gonna go where the lights are bright
A
Where sacred secrets sail like kites
D Bm
We've been sleeping girl all our lives
A
And we never lived no we just survived
E D A
And we never lived. We just survived
[Verse 4]
A
I'll take my heart, I'll take my key
A
I'll find out who, who could care for me
D Bm
Are there pots of gold, are there floods and fires
F#m A
Are there thieves and beggars, saints and liars
E D A
Are there thieves and beggars, saints and liars?
[Chorus]
G D/F# G A
Goodbye Maryann
G D A
As you turn to watch me
G D/F# G A
Don't cry Maryann
Bm C#m D E
And don't try to stop me
[Verse 5]
A
I put on my finest summer dress
A
So light and thin, torn at the chest
D
I brushed my hair, I held my breath
A
I went out to face the wilderness
E D A
I went out to face the wilderness
[Instrumental]
(chords as in verse)
A
A
D Bm
A
E D A
[Outro]
G D/F# G A
Maryann...
(fade out repeating)
G D/F# G A
Shawn Smith
Shawn Wasabi
Shawna Edwards
Shawny Sander
Shay Carl
She Said Save Me
She Told Me To
She Wants Reveng (...)
She Y Elena
She/Her/Hers