I choose my eyes wide open

And my heart half-broken every time

Over the gilded golden shackle

And the reassuring sentimental lie

I've seen the rolling meadows

And the cruelest ghettos in this town

I know the baker and the undertaker

And the girl with the stars on her gown

But the song that sounds the best to me

Is the chorus of the maple tree

And that river bends in through the sea

Its course is fixed and so are we

It seems

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But I got sunshine

Sunshine all over me

And brown eyes

Blue skies are all I see

I do not care to offer any

Commentary on the world

I only sing for the pleasure

And for a certain sentimental girl

And I did not come to establish any

New world somewhere up in the clouds

I just want to make love in the morning

Work 'til evening, and then

Watch the sun go down

Over the aimless and upward climb

The hidden hand, and the searching vine

And this river bends into the sea

Its course is fixed and so are we

It seems

[Chorus]

But I've got sunshine

Sunshine all over me

And brown eyes

Blue skies are all I see

And the strangest fruit

It grows from the ledge

Oh my friends, my friends

Go near to the edge

[Chorus]

But I've got sunshine

Sunshine all over me

And brown eyes

Blue skies are all I see

But I've got sunshine

Sunshine all over me

And brown eyes

Blue skies are all I see

Those who are mining for gold

Get prematurely old

Trying not to disappear

But me I'm just a ditchdigger

When I'm gone, forget that I was here