Summer In The City chords by The Lovin Spoonful

Chords with lyrics

"Summer in the City"
      (John Sebastian - Mark Sebastian - Steve Boone)

Intro:

	organ and electric piano arr. for guitar [3X]

	 v  v  v  v
	-----------------
	-----------------
	-------------x---
	-6-------5-------
	-----------------
	-4-------3-------
	       ^ echoed drums

	bass (note intentional G-Ab dissonance on the first beat):

	 v  v  v  v
	-----------------
	-5-------5-------
	-----------------
	-----------------

Verse 1:

	[Notes: 1) I believe that the guitar is capoed at the third fret,
	 in which case the chord progression transposes to the stock folkie
	 riff Am-Am/G-D9/F#-Fmaj7-E. This is further confirmed by the
	 voicings of the FF and Bb majorBb chords in the chorus, which sound like
	 root-position D MajorD and G+G capoed up. 2) The electric piano plays a
	 variation of the second part of the instrumental break (q.v.) on
	 the first four lines of the verse.]

	C minorCm    Cm/BbCm/Bb
	Hot town..
	F9/A [x03543]      Abmaj7Abmaj7    G+G
	Back of ..
	C minorCm     Cm/BbCm/Bb
	Been ..
	F9/A         Abmaj7Abmaj7     G+G
	Doesn't ..

	 G+G     G7/B
	All around..
	 C minorCm            C majorC
	Walking..

Chorus (w/autoharp):

	FF          Bb majorBb
	But at ..
	FF     Bb majorBb
	Go out..
	FF          Bb majorBb
	Come-on ..
	FF           Bb majorBb
	Despite..

	  DmDm        G+G
	And babe,..
		 DmDm     G+G
	That the..
	    DmDm       G+G
	In ..
	    DmDm       G+G
	In the ..

Verse 2:

[repeat chorus]

Instrumental break:

	guitar (doubled octave higher w/electric piano) w/sound effects

	 C minorCm        Ab7Ab7
	 v  v  v  v   v  v  v  v
	-----------------|------------------
	-----------------|------------------
	-----------------|------------------
	-5--3-3-5-3---3--|-6--4-4-6-4---4---
	-----6------6----|-----6------6-----
	-----------------|------------------

	organ:

	C majorC (octaves; hold through next section)
	/ / / /

	Wurlitzer electric piano arr. for two guitars [2X]

	(C minorCm)    (/Bb)     (/A)    (/Ab)(Gsus4Gsus4)
	 v   v   v   v    v   v   v   v
	15----15----1515--15-----|1515--15----1515-15--15--
	16----16----1516--16-----|1516--16----1615-15--15--
	17----17----1717--17-----|1717--17----1717-17--17--
	-------------------------|-------------------------
	-------------------------|-------------------------

	      guitar 3 (2nd time only): Abmaj7Abmaj7 G+G
	 v   v   v   v    v   v   v   v
	-------------------------|-------------------------
	-------------------------|-------------------------
	-------------------------|-------------------------
	10-10----10--8-------8---|-7--------7--6--------5--
	-------------------------|-------------------------
	-8--8-----8--6-------6---|-5--------5--4--------3--
	2: ^^ 1: ^^

[repeat first verse and chorus]

[repeat instrumental break]

[repeat first verse and chorus w/o vocals; fade]


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers

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