Bright Sunny South â?? SAm Amidon hello friends of sAm Amidon and friends of this song : i´ve tried so much different things on guitar but i haven´t found the style as sAm Amidon plays this song. so please, if you know something better than the chords i posted below, i will be happy if you correct me and this tab. the chords i found are simple - too simple ? Intro and in between the verses : (play all chords barré on 5th and 3rd fret) 1. In the bright sunny south, in peace and content These days of my boyhood I scarcely have spent From the deep flowing spring to the broad flowing streAm Ever dear to my memory, sweeter is my dreAm 2. I lay my confinement and comfort of life The dangers of warfare, provision and strife I have come to come close and reply with my word As I shoulder my musket, belted my sword 3. My father looked sad as he bid me to part My mother embraced me with anguish of heart And my beautiful sister looked pale in her woe As she hugged me and blessed me, told me to go 4. Dear father, dear father for me do not weep I'm a lonesome man and I mean for to keep The dangers of war I intend for to share And for sickness and death I intend to prepare 5. Dear mother, dear mother for me do not weep For a mother´s kind voice I ever will keep You have taught me be brave from a boy to a man And I'm going in defense of her own native land 6. Dear sister, dear sister, I'm afeared of your woe Your grief and your sorrow, they trouble me so I must be going, for here I cannot stand I'm going in defense of her own native land