Standard Tuning

 Guitar Intro        D#-A#-C        D#-A#-C

First Verse
 C                         D              
I can pull emotion from a small brown earthen jar, 
 F                                 Bb               
spread it thick on canvas by the light of morning star.
 C                             D              
I can paint your dreams,I can illustrate your soul,
 F              C                G                A              
Sit for me and let the painting show you who you are.  

Chorus
 D             A            G                D    
I'm the funny painter man (he's the painter man)
 D             A             G                D
Color flowing from my hand (he's the painter man) 
 C       C        D#-A#      C        D#-A#                      
Painter,                    Painter,   
  

2nd Verse
 C                            D              
Love has many colors that my brushes always see, 
 F                                    Bb               
Hate is something blacker than you'd want your heart to be.
 C                              D              
Something rosey indicates your life is trouble free,
 F                 C      G                A                   
Seat yourself and smile,leave the rest to me.    

Chorus
 D             A            G                D    
I'm the funny painter man (he's the painter man)
 D             A             G                D
Color flowing from my hand (he's the painter man) 
 C       C        D#-A#      C        D#-A#                      
Painter,                    Painter,   
  

3rd Verse
 C                                  D      
Golden strings and bluebird wings present their sound to you, 
 F                            Bb      
Lullabies and baby cries are all familiar too, 
 C                            D               
If the story that I show is stranger than the view.
 F            C               G           A   
Don't be to surprised if it isn't really you.
 

Chorus
 D             A            G                D    
I'm the funny painter man (he's the painter man)
 D             A             G                D
Color flowing from my hand (he's the painter man) 
 D             A            G                D    
I'm the funny painter man (he's the painter man)
 D             A             G                D
Color flowing from my hand (he's the painter man) 

 C       C        D#-A#      C        D#-A#                      
Painter,                    Painter, 
 C       C        D#-A#      C        D#-A#                      
Painter,                    Painter,