Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
Summer Water
Intro:
A augmentedA E7sus4E7sus4
Verse 1:
A augmentedA E7sus4E7sus4
Sometimes that lake got angry, as the lightnin' went and crashed
A augmentedA E7sus4E7sus4
Sometimes it was so still, it looked like a sheet of glass
A augmentedA E7sus4E7sus4
But it washed away our beer cans, and it washed away our sins
A augmentedA E7sus4E7sus4
It talked us out of all our clothes, and begged us to jump in
Chorus:
A augmentedA D MajorD
There was magic in the summer water
A augmentedA
Learned to swim in the summer water
E MajorE
All the small town sons and daughters
A augmentedA A7A7
Were baptized a thousand times
D MajorD
Built fire by it like an altar
A augmentedA
Gave it every song we could offer
E MajorE
Memories float on it like a bobber
A augmentedA E7sus4E7sus4 A augmentedA E7sus4E7sus4
Out there on the summer water
Verse 2:
A augmentedA E7sus4E7sus4
When a heart was broken, it was better than a church pew sanctuary
A augmentedA E7sus4E7sus4
A augmentedA lot of long kiss, rocks skip, sun drenched orange crush bottle caps got buried
A augmentedA E7sus4E7sus4
It's where you spend your first night with your first love before the mercury starts fallin'
A augmentedA E7sus4E7sus4
It's where you spend the last with your first love, before somebody goes to college
Chorus:
A augmentedA D MajorD
There was magic in the summer water
A augmentedA
Learned to swim in the summer water
E MajorE
All the small town sons and daughters
A augmentedA A7A7
Were baptized a thousand times
D MajorD
Built fire by it like an altar
A augmentedA
Gave it every song we could offer
E MajorE
Memories float on it like a bobber
A augmentedA
Out there on the summer water
Solo:
D MajorD A augmentedA E MajorE
Verse 3:
D MajorD
There was somethin' 'bout the summer water
A augmentedA
Every girl that's where you brought her
E MajorE
It's where you slipped that ring you bought her
A augmentedA
On her shakin' hand
D MajorD
Built fire by it like an altar
A augmentedA
Gave it every song we could offer
E MajorE
Memories float on it like a bobber
A augmentedA E7sus4E7sus4 A augmentedA E7sus4E7sus4
Out there on the summer water
Outro:
A augmentedA
Yeah out on the summer water