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Summertime Blues
>From Live at Leeds, by The Who
written by Holland/Dozier/Holland

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transcribed by
litgo@aol.com
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Key of A

[INTRO]

   A   D  E   A            A [riff]
||-------------------||------------------------||--3----------|
||-----3-------------||------------------------||--3------2---|
||-2---2--------2----||--------2------------2--||--0------3---|
||-2-0-0--------2----||--------2------------2--||--0------0---|
||-0----------0-0----||----0-0----------0-0----||-----------0-|
||--------0-3--------||-3^-----------3^--------||--3----------|

A                                                      A D  E A
I'm a'gonna raise a fuss I'm ...
A [riff]                                                   A D  E A
I've been workin' all summer just ....
    D        D6      D7  D6 D   D6   D7   D6     
    Tried to get the car go out on a date
d|--7--------9-------10--9--7---9----10---9-9-|
a|--5--------5-------5---5--5---5----5----5-5-|

A    [tacit]                                           A
The boss said "no dice, ...

D                       Dsus  D     Dsus  D
Sometimes I wonder what ...
      A  [tacit]                                       A D E A
There ain't no cure for ....

Well, my mom and poppa told me, "son, ...

[Solo]                   x2
||-----0---0-----0-----0----||-----9---7-----7-----5-|
||-----5---3-----3-----2----||-----------------------|
||--------------------------||--7/9---7-----7---5/6--|
||--4/5---4---2/4-----2-----||-----------------------|
||------------------------0-||-----------------------|
||--------------------------||-----------------------|
                                              x2
|-----9---7-----7----------||-------------------||-----------------|
|-------------------0--2---||---5--5--5--5--5---||-5--5------------|
|--7/9---7-----7-------2---||---7^ 7^ 7^ 7^ 7^--||-7^-7^---7-5^----|
|----------------------2---||-------------------||-----------------|
|-------------------------0||-------------------||-----------------|
|--------------------------||-------------------||-----------------|

|--------------------------|------|-------|------------|---------------|
|--------------------------|------|-------|------------|----------2----|
|--------------------------|------|-------|------------|----------2----|
|--7-5/7-----7-5---5-------|------|-------|---3--5-----|--3^---0--2----|
|----------------7----3^-0-|-0----|-------|-5----------|-----5----0--0-|
|--------------------------|--3-0-|-3-4-5-|------------|---------------|

| A  D   E  A  |

|| B  E    F#   B ||x2 [B/A riff]
||----------------||--------------||---------|
||----------------||--------------||---------|
||-4--4---------4-||--------------||-4-------|
||-4--2----4----4-||-4-4-4--4-4-4-||-4---2---|
||-2--2----4--0-2-||-0-2-2--0-2-2-||-0---2---|
||----0----2------||--------------||-----0-0-|

      B                                             B E  F# B
Gonna take two weeks ..
      B       [B/A riff].....
Gonna take my problem to the ...
  D    D6    D7      D6      D  D6    D7    D6  [note: PT's error - should be
E]
I went to my congressman ...
     B                                                     B
"I'd like to help you, son...
E                       Esus        E
Sometimes I wonder ....

             B               
'Cause there ain't no ...

|| B E  F#  B ||

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