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Oh Sunshine

from Garden Variations by Cory Fay

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And on that sunny day
with all that birdseed in your hair
how you thought you'd never need
anyone else or anything
and the clouds all came
and they blew your seeds away
how he stayed and kept you warm
how to you he'd always sing

"Oh, my Sunshine!
You make me happy when skies are gray
you drive all my dark thoughts away!
Oh, my Sunshine!
I don't know what I'd do without your light here everyday,
without you I would surely lose my way."

When I was born
you painted pictures of me
you said they were the best you'd ever made
they were the best you'd ever made
but now I've seen every one of your paintings,
they are all perfect in every way
they are perfect in every way
and you sang

"Oh, my Sunshine!
You make me happy when skies are gray
you drive all my dark thoughts away!
Oh, my Sunshine!
I don't know what I'd do without your light here everyday,
without you I would surely lose my way."

And how the years passed by and how you got very sick
how we prayed and prayed and prayed
and how very sick you stayed
We prayed to god to help you out of bed
Oh lord, don't let her die
Oh please lord don't let her die
we sang

"Oh, my Sunshine!
You make me happy when skies are gray
you drive all my dark thoughts away!
Oh, my Sunshine!
I don't know what I'd do without your light here everyday,
without you I would surely lose my way."

Oh shovel cut the Earth
break my back for what it's worth
the old Garden went to seed
nothing out there but weeds
her fever broke
how I cried, how I cursed
It took her with it in the night
It took her with it in the night

and Oh, my Sunshine!
You make me happy when skies are gray
you drive all my dark thoughts away.
Oh, my Sunshine!
I don't know what I'll do without your light here everyday,
without you I will surely lose my way.

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from Garden Variations, released September 16, 2017

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