Shine a light       (Listen to sample)

 

   C                                            G

1.   Saw you stretched out in Room Ten O Nine,

                Am                                  G

    with a smile on your face and a tear right in your eye.

        - F                                    C               - G               - F           C    - G

    Oh,   couldn't seem to get a line on you,    my sweet    honey love.

   C                         G

2.    Berber jewelry jangling down the street,

      Am                                              G

    making bloodshot eyes at every woman that you meet.

F                                          C                - G            F              C      - G

    Could not seem to get a high on you,      my sweet honey love.

 

C                                             G

    May the good Lord shine a light on you,

F                              - C                       G

    make every song       your favorite tune.

C                                             G

    May the good Lord shine a light on you,

F                                       C       - G

    warm like the evening sun.

 

                            C                                                   G

3. When you're drunk in the alley, baby, with your clothes all torn,

                    Am                                                G

    and your late night friends leave you in the cold gray dawn.

F                                         C                - G         F                        C    - G

    Just seemed too many flies on you,     I just can't brush them off.

      C                                  - G

4. Angels beating all their           wings in time,

               Am                                      G

    with smiles on their faces and a gleam right in their eyes.

                 - F                                 - C                     

    Whoa,       thought I heard one        sigh for you,

G                     - F                               - C                              - G

    come on up,      come on up, now,        come on up now.

 

+ CHORUS          + instrumental = CHORUS             + CHORUS

 

  + Am - F - G  (3x)  - Am        (The Rolling Stones)