Summer Wages chords by David Bromberg

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:
C majorC               FF
Never hit seventeen, when you play against the dealer
C majorC            A minorAm          G+G
For you know that those odds won't ride with you
     C majorC              FF
And never leave your woman alone, with friends around to steal her
     C majorC      A minorAm        G+G  C majorC
Years are gambled and lost like summer wages

Verse 2:
C majorC                FF
So we'll keep rollin on, til we get to Vancouver
   C majorC      A minorAm       G+G
And a woman that I love, is living there
       C majorC          FF
Oh it's been six long months and more since I've seen her
   C majorC      A minorAm        G+G  C majorC
Maybe gambled and lost like summer wages

Chorus:
    G+G             FF    C majorC
And in all the beer parlors, all down on Young Street
         A minorAm      FF          C majorC
The dreams of the seasons, all spilled down on the floor
    G+G            FF     C majorC
All the big stands of timber are ready for falling
             A minorAm         FF         G+G
And the hustlers sitting watchfully, as they wait there by the door

Verse 3:
    C majorC              FF
So I'll work on the towboats, in my slippery city shoes
    C majorC       A minorAm    G+G
Which I swore I would never do again
      C majorC                 FF
Through the gray fog-bound straits, where the cedars stand watching
     C majorC     A minorAm        G+G  C majorC
I'll be far off and gone, like summer wages

Chorus:
    G+G             FF     C majorC
And in all the beer parlors, all down along Young Street
         A minorAm    FF         C majorC
The dreams of the seasons, spill down on the floor
    G+G            FF     C majorC
All the big stands of timber are ready for falling
             A minorAm         FF         G+G
And the hustlers sitting watchfully, as they wait there by the door

Verse 4:
      C majorC           FF
For she’s a woman so fine, I might never try to find her
    C majorC      A minorAm      G+G
For the memories are all we had before
      C majorC                   FF
They should never ever be changed, 'cause they’re all that I’ll take with me
     C majorC      A minorAm       G+G  C majorC
Now I’ve gambled and lost my summer wages.

Verse 5:
   C majorC            FF
Never hit seventeen, when you play against the dealer
  C majorC       A minorAm          G+G
You know that the odds won't ride with you
     C majorC              FF
And never leave your woman alone, with friends around to steal her
     C majorC      A minorAm        G+G  C majorC  FF  C majorC  FF  C majorC  FF  C majorC
Years are gambled and lost like summer wages