Wild Strawberries chords by Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot - Wild Strawberries





CAPO: 4th Fret




VERSE 1::
C     G    F     C
If I had a dollar, if I had a cent
         G      F        G
I would play most anywhere, if it would pay my rent
    F       G      F      G
I'd be living on the downside in my old apartment
    C  F   G   Em
For the rest of my days
             F
People always ask why the world is on the run
Em            F  Em
People like you and like me

VERSE 2::
              F
Is it really true, you can really never win
G               Am      G   F
Moving to the upside, tell me when does the fun begin
C
Deep as the sea and as wild as the weather
    F        C        F       G
We will go, just you and me, to pick wild strawberries together
   C
Or be living on our own, in a cabin in a meadow
   F                    G
Or meandering alone, we can face the world forever or we'll


CHORUS::
C    ~    F      G       C
Hit the bounding main, or be on a railroad train
    ~     F      G       C
Hit the boundless tide, or be on a steamboat ride
    ~    F      G       C
Hit the bounding main, or be on a midnight plane
    ~    F      G      C   Em
Hit the pounding tide, or be on a rainbow ride


VERSE 3::
               F         G
People often ask me just the way it must feel
                   F    Em
To be standing up here with you down there
                  F
Let it now be known that throughout all of these years
G         Am     G     F  C
I have been wearing polka dot underwear


VERSE 4::

Deep as the sea and as wild as the weather
    F         C       F       G
We will go, just wait and see, to gather crab-apples together
    C
And be wandering along toward a cabin in the meadow
  F                     G
Or meandering alone, we can face the world together or we'll


CHORUS::
C    ~    F      G       C
Hit the bounding main, or be on a railroad train
    ~     F      G       C
Hit the boundless tide, or be on a steamboat ride
    ~    F      G       C
Hit the bounding main, or be on a midnight plane
    ~    F      G      C   Em
Hit the pounding tide, or be on a rainbow ride


INSTRUMENTAL:: G C G C G C G C G C G C Em


VERSE 5::
             F
People always ask why the world is on the slide
Em            F  Em
People like you and like me
                F
Is it really true there will be no place left to hide
G           Am       G   F  C
Turning to the upside, when does the fun begin


VERSE 6::

Deep as the sea and as wild as the weather
     F        C        F       G
We might go, just you and me, to pick wild strawberries together
   C
Or be living on our own, in a cabin in a meadow
    F
And the cows will come home
              G
They can face the world forever and we'll


CHORUS::
C    ~    F      G       C
Hit the bounding main, or be on a railroad train
    ~     F      G       C
Hit the boundless tide, or be on a steamboat ride
    ~    F      G       C
Hit the bounding main, or be on a midnight plane
    ~    F      G      C
Hit the pounding tide, or be on a rainbow ride
    ~    F      G      C
Hit the bounding main or be on a midnight plane