Why Does the Sun Shine?  -  by They Might Be Giants
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Play fast, loud and silly.

Capo on fret one to match record.

Intro:
E - - - A - - - E - B - E A E -

Chorus:
    E                A
The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas
    E              B
A gigantic nuclear furnace
      E                      A
Where hydrogen is built into helium
     E              B              E A E
At a temperature of millions of degrees

Verse 1:
E
The Sun is hot, the Sun is not
                       B
A place where we could live
E                         A
But here on earth there'd be no life
E           B        E  A  E
Without the light it gives

Verse 2:
   E        A
We need its light
   E        A
We need its heat
    E                B
The sunshine that we see
    E        A          E       A
The sunlight comes from our own sun's
 E     B   E A E
Atomic energy

Chorus.

Bridge:
    E      A
The Sun is hot
"the Sun is so hot that everything on it is a gas"
"Aluminum (sic), copper, iron and many others"
    E      A
The Sun is large
"If the Sun were hollow a million earths would fit inside"
"And yet it is only a middle sized star"
    E           B
The Sun is far away
"About 93 million miles away, and that's why it looks so small"
    E              A                E          B         E  A  E
But even when it's out of sight the Sun shines night and day

Verse 2.

Spoken bit:
"Scientists have found that the Sun is a huge atom-smashing machine"
"The heat and light of the Sun are caused by nuclear reactions between"
"Hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon and helium"

Chorus.

The Sun!