Boulder chords by Grover Anderson

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Intro:

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Refrain:
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It's much warmer these days, don't know what happened to spring
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We're all perspiring but there's something chilly in my veins
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Here I am in California, thinking of Boulder again

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Verse 1:
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She left Sacramento in '52, her daddy got a job back at CU,
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And he bought a house of Fifth and Arapahoe
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I was eighteen, such a reckless child, and those hazel eyes just drove me wild,
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So I kept my promise to follow her where she'd go
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I got a job down in the mine, smutched my fingers trying to make hers shine
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On New Year's Eve I held her tight, asked her to be my heart and life
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On the first of '53 her daddy said no
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Sent her off to Massachusetts, some women's school
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Later that year the coal mine blew
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So I went back to family in Sacramento

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Verse 2:
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The night before we said goodbye I swore to wait and she swore to try
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And we made love on the old Chautauqua Green
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I got her letters and she got mine, twice a week then one at a time
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There was nothing longer than the days between
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She wrote of professors, friends, the Harvard mixer ball
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Summer came and I needed work, I couldn't visit her at all
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Then I got a letter in '55, it killed me to read
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"He'll never take your place in my heart but this can never be
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"Sending love from coast to coast is only fantasy
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"But we'll always have Boulder, September '53"

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Verse 3:
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She got married, had a kid and died between June '57 and May '65
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And I still got that ring in my billfold
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I never wed, though I had the chance, but I learned guitar and I learned to dance
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And a fella gets enough to satisfy his soul
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But here in Angels City, summertime lasts half the year
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And it's never more than sixty in the memories I hold dear
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And she used to tell me that she'd hate getting old
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So each summer night when I close my eyes, pray when I go my soul survives
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And we'll together face the cold

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Refrain:
C#                                                            A#m
It's much warmer these days, don't know what happened to spring
C#                                                          A#m
We're all perspiring but there's something chilly in my veins

Outro:
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