A# F D# A#  
When you can't find the light, that got you through the cloudy days,   
A# F D# A#  
When the stars ain't shinin' bright, you feel like you've lost you're way,   
A# F D# A#  
When those candle lights of home, burn so very far away,   
A# F Gm G#  
Well you got to let your soul shine, just like my daddy used to say.   

A# F  
He used to say soulshine, it's better than sunshine,   
D# A#  
It's better than moonshine, damn sure better than rain.   
A# F  
Hey now people don't mind, we all get this way sometime,   
Gm G# A#  
Got to let your soul shine, shine till the break of day.
 
I grew up thinkin' that I had it made, gonna make it on my own.   
Life can take the strongest man, make him feel so alone.   
Now and then I feel a cold wind, blowin' through my achin' bones,   
I think back to what my daddy said, he said "Boy, in the darkness before the dawn:"   
  
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Gm D#  
Sometimes a man can feel this emptiness,   
D# A#  
Like a woman has robbed him of his very soul.   
Dm D#  
A woman too, God knows, she can feel like this.   
G# F  
And when your world seems cold, you got to let your spirit take control.   
  
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