Product Description
By Mike Strand, ASCAP
Here is a swing ballad lead sheet, with lyrics, chord symbols, and guitar fret boards, for a jazz group, large or small, with singer. It is a good foundation for a variety of arrangements and improvisations.
The audio sample is a jazz quartet arrangement: A swing ballad accompaniment from iReal Pro, combined with my tune from Finale PrintMusic. You'll hear an oboe play the singer's melody.
Come Out, You Sun! portrays a person struggling with troubles and sadness. The person overcomes despair by looking within and finding the strength of heart to be happy, in good times or bad.
Here are the lyrics for Come Out, You Sun!:
1
Come out, you sun!
This day can be won.
But when those gray
clouds roll in
My spirit it sinks
way down.
Youll see me frown:
I feel theres no way
to win.
Bridge
This gloomy attitude
Gives me no latitude
For this soul of mine
to shine.
Just a few dark, gray
clouds,
They are not mummy
shrouds!
The sun, Im aware,
is still there!
2
Come sun, shade, or
storm,
I wont let them form
What I think, do, or
say!
Those troubles will
still be around,
But I have found:
My heart may still rule
the day.
Coda
Yes, troubles abound,
But I have found:
My heart won.
Come out, you sun!
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