Sunny Guitar Tab

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From Michael_Fiddes@baylor.edu Sun May  4 10:35:04 1997
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 03:22:48 -0600
From: Michael Fiddes 
To: guitar@olga.net
Cc: Michael_Fiddes@baylor.edu
Subject: CRD: Sunny by Morrissey

Here are the chords and lyrics to Morrissey's single, "Sunny."
Lyrics taken from an entry by Tyson McCreary .

Please feel free to send any comments about the *chords* to me.

-Michael Fiddes (mjf01@sprynet.com or mjf@gandalf.baylor.edu)

"Sunny" by Morrissey
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D   A    G

Bm A G G

             D
We're really missing you,
             A              Ab   G
We're really missing you,
           D            A
And you've only just gone.


              G
Oh...were you punched and felled
        D
and you felt embarrassed?
   Bm         A      G
My heart goes out to you.
     G                     D
So I often love and it was not required.
     Bm        A     G   F#m
Oh...what else can I do?
Em              A
What else can I do?


D   A    G

Bm A G G

             D
We're really missing you,
             A              Ab   G
We're really missing you,
           D            A
And you've only just gone.


         G
So Sunny send at least
    D
one thoughtful letter.
   Bm         A       G
My heart goes out to you.
        G                  D
Tell us all how things are so much better.
   Bm        A        G    F#m
My heart it left with you.
Em              A
What else can I do?


G                D               A      Ab
     They're not forgiving you
G               D            A
     And you're not even wrong.


               G                             D
Oh...with your jean belt wrapped around your arm.
              Bm         A      G
Oh...Sunny my heart goes out to you.
             G                   D
And with the needle pressed onto tight skin.
        Bm         A              G
Sunny I cry when I see where it's taken you

    Bm            A   G
I'm here, I won't move.
    Bm            A   G
I'm here, I won't move.
    Bm      A        G
I'm here, I will not move.


C#   B    A
C#   B    A
C#   B    A
C#   B    A

C#

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture PunkJunky Wanna Be	#1 by PunkJunky at Feb 11, 1974 at 3:16 AM EST
	"I offered love and it was not required" sung with so much feeling and pain. Poor chap.

No Picture Len Badass	#2 by Len cullum at Jan 24, 1982 at 10:18 PM EST
	I think it is about a boxer. Sonny something. I read it on a website specialized in analyzing Moz' songs.

No Picture health risk Average	#3 by health risk at Jun 25, 1986 at 8:28 AM EST
	I don't think its about a heroin overdose. While its obvious that he knows an adict, he is still offering support. He says that "I will not move" meaning that he is going to try and help his friend no matter where his addiction takes him. He can see that Sunny has already changed, " I cry when I see where it's taken you" but just because Sunny is differnt from drugs dosen't mean that he ODed. Drugs change everyone.

No Picture jacob Average	#4 by jacob ap at Dec 15, 1986 at 11:18 PM EST
	This is my favorite, thus far, of Morrissey's song. I find it really movement and, as was stated above, truely poignant. There's a lot of heart and hurt in it

No Picture Alex Lead Player	#5 by Alex Russo at Jun 30, 1990 at 1:40 AM EST
	Yeah, Mozza went through a phase of obsession with Boxing (see Boxers as the most obvious reference). This song's just so poignant and moving. It's brimming with emotion and seems to combine the heroin addiction and his downfall from boxing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Liston Here's an article on the aforementioned Sonny Liston. The story could refer to anyone but may well be drawn from this. Although set in the boxing world, it generalises to the helplessness of seeing someone ruin themselves, doing all you can and not being able to aid them.

No Picture *Lee Average	#6 by Lee at Mar 28, 1992 at 4:51 AM EST
	I think it's about the boxer Sonny Liston. "Punched and fell then you felt embarrassed" - there was a famous bout Liston had with Muhammad Ali, where he was knocked out in the first round. It is alleged that he threw the fight to pay off debts to gamblers. He died of a drug overdose, and was supposedly found with a syringe in his arm, which would fit with the third verse.

No Picture (DDD Bass Gu Rhythm Player	#7 by (DDD Bass Guitar/Backup Vocals) Jeff Fritts at Mar 20, 1994 at 8:07 AM EST
	I think the narrator of the song might be the father of sunny.

No Picture Ziggy Professional	#8 by Ziggy at Nov 20, 1997 at 12:18 AM EST
	This song, I believe, is about someone Morrissey was in love with and possibly had a relationship with -- his name was Jake, so I have no idea why he's referred to as Sunny. He (and Morrissey) had a thing for fake tattoos. It's his tattooed stomach Morrissey is lying on the back cover of one of the albums (can't remember which). I think the "needle pressed onto tight skin" could be a reference to tattooing, although it appears to be about heroin. It would be just like Moz to try and trick us, wouldn't it??

No Picture keith Wanna Be	#9 by keith mckinlay at Mar 5, 2000 at 2:10 PM EST
	I don't know who, specifically, this song is about. And I'm sure that no one bu Moz knows for certain. It's about heroin overdose, though.

No Picture The Four String Lead Player	#10 by The Four String Mother Fucker at Jun 16, 2005 at 3:26 AM EST
	I think it could be about Sonny Liston, but the second verse and chorus, being so personal, makes me think it's more likely about a person Morrissey was close to, possibly a lover, whose life held parallels to the boxer's. I think Morrissey is using Sonny Liston's story to tell another, comparing a person to Sonny Liston. Also, the spelling is different, which may seem trivial, but Morrissey seems to notice these things.

No Picture Ziggy Professional	#11 by Ziggy at Sep 30, 2006 at 2:29 PM EST
	I might also add that the circumstances surrounding Sonny's death are still widely disputed and he was known to have connections to gangsters and a history in shady dealings. I don't think we should assume that 'Sunny' is dead at the end of this song, rather just heading for a fall. Theres no mention of his death, just the repeated support and unmoving acceptance of Morrissey (or the narrator)