Summer Wages chords by Ian Tyson

Chords with lyrics

Summer Wages


D MajorD               G+G
Never hit seventeen, when you play against the dealer
  D MajorD       B minorBm          A augmentedA
You know that the odds won't ride with you...
     D MajorD                 G+G
And never leave your woman alone, when your friends are out to steal her
     D MajorD      B minorBm        A augmentedA  D MajorD
Years are gambled and lost like summer wages

D MajorD                 G+G
And we'll keep rollin on, 'til we get to Vancouver
    D MajorD      B minorBm         A augmentedA
And the lady that I love, she's living there
     D MajorD          G+G
It's been six long months and more since I've seen her
    D MajorD      B minorBm        A augmentedA  D MajorD
Maybe gambled and gone, like summer wages

Chorus:
  A augmentedA             G+G     D MajorD
In all the beer parlors, all down along main street
         B minorBm        G+G          D MajorD
The dreams of the seasons, get all spilled down on the floor
    A augmentedA             G+G        D MajorD
All the big stands of timber, just waiting for the falling
             B minorBm      G+G       A augmentedA
And the hookers standing watchfully , waiting by the door

    D MajorD               G+G
So I'll work on the towboats, with my slippery city shoes
       D MajorD       B minorBm    A augmentedA
Which lord I swore I would never do again...
      D MajorD                 G+G
Through the gray fog bound straits, where the cedars stand a watching
     D MajorD      B minorBm        A augmentedA  D MajorD
 I'll be far off and gone, like summer wages


Chorus:
  A augmentedA             G+G     D MajorD
In all the beer parlors, all down along main street
         B minorBm        G+G          D MajorD
The dreams of the seasons, get all spilled down on the floor
    A augmentedA             G+G        D MajorD
All the big stands of timber, just waiting for the falling
             B minorBm      G+G       A augmentedA
And the hookers standing watchfully , waiting by the door

   D MajorD            G+G
Never hit seventeen, when you play against the dealer
  D MajorD       B minorBm          A augmentedA
You know that the odds won't ride with you...
     D MajorD                 G+G
And never leave your woman alone, when your friends are out to steal her
      D MajorD      B minorBm        A augmentedA  D MajorD
Years are gambled and lost like summer wages X 2

Tabbed by Thom Christmann