End Of The Summer chords by Dar Williams

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
A minorAm A minorAm E minorEm G+G x2

Verse 1:
A minorAm      A minorAm     E minorEm       G+G
  The summer ends and we wonder where we are
  A minorAm        A minorAm         E minorEm      G+G
And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car
    C majorC      C majorC
And you both look so young
  G+G       G+G
And last night was hard, you said
  A minorAm       A minorAm
You packed up every room
       E minorEm        G+G
And then you cried and went to bed
   A minorAm         A minorAm
But today you closed the door
       E minorEm      E minorEm
And said "We have to get a move on
   Fmaj7Fmaj7       Fmaj7Fmaj7
It's just that time of year
    G+G        G+G
When we push ourselves ahead
  A minorAm       A minorAm   A minorAm
We push ourselves ahead."
      DmDm      DmDm
And it was cloudy in the morning
    E minorEm      E minorEm
And it rained as you drove away
    DmDm         DmDm
And the same things looked different
     E minorEm     E minorEm
It's the end of the summer
     Fmaj7Fmaj7   Fmaj7Fmaj7
It's the end of the summer
     Em9Em9   Em9Em9
When you move to another place

Verse 2:
   A minorAm      A minorAm            E minorEm      G+G
And I feel like the neighbor's girl who will never be the same
  A minorAm        A minorAm        E minorEm         G+G
She walked alone all spring, she had a boyfriend when the summer came
  C majorC      C majorC      G+G     G+G
And he gave her flowers in a lightning storm
   A minorAm       A minorAm    E minorEm       G+G
They disappeared at night in green fields of silver corn
  A minorAm      A minorAm       E minorEm       E minorEm
And sometime in July she just forgot that he was leaving
  Fmaj7Fmaj7        Fmaj7Fmaj7   G+G       E minorEm
So when the fields were dying, she held on to his sleeves
  A minorAm       A minorAm    A minorAm
She held on to his sleeves
    DmDm       DmDm
And she doesn't want to let go
      E minorEm          E minorEm
'Cause she won't know what she's up against
  DmDm         DmDm
The classrooms and the smart girls
     E minorEm     E minorEm
It's the end of the summer
     Fmaj7Fmaj7   Fmaj7Fmaj7
It's the end of the summer
     Em9Em9        Em9Em9
When you hang your flowers up to dry

Instrumental:
A minorAm A minorAm E minorEm G+G x2

Verse 3:
A minorAm     A minorAm         E minorEm        G+G
And I had a dream, it blows the autumn through my head
  A minorAm         A minorAm            E minorEm      G+G
It felt like the first day of school, but I was going to the moon instead
   C majorC        C majorC
And I walked down the hall
     G+G       G+G
With the notebooks they got for me
  A minorAm     A minorAm
My dad led me through the house
  E minorEm        G+G
My mom drank instant coffee
   A minorAm        A minorAm
And I knew that I would crash
   E minorEm       E minorEm
But I didn't want to tell them
     Fmaj7Fmaj7       Fmaj7Fmaj7      Fmaj7Fmaj7    Fmaj7Fmaj7
There are just some moments    when your family makes sense
   A minorAm    A minorAm  A minorAm
They just make sense
   DmDm      DmDm     E minorEm       E minorEm
So I raised up my arms and my mother put the sweater on
  DmDm        DmDm       E minorEm
We walked out on the dark and frozen grass
        E minorEm
The end of the summer
     E minorEm     E minorEm
It's the end of the summer
     Em9Em9            Em9Em9
When you send your children to the moon

Verse 4:
A minorAm      A minorAm     E minorEm      G+G
  The summer ends and we wonder who we are
  A minorAm        A minorAm         E minorEm      G+G
And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car
   C majorC        C majorC        G+G     G+G
And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree
 A minorAm          A minorAm
I passed the farms that made it
      E minorEm        G+G
Through the last days of the century
   A minorAm       E minorEm       E minorEm
And I knew that I was going to learn again
 E minorEm      Fmaj7Fmaj7   Fmaj7Fmaj7
Again, in this last hazy light
     G+G         E minorEm
I saw the fields beyond the fields
  A minorAm        A minorAm    A minorAm
The fields beyond the fields
    DmDm       DmDm
And the colors are much brighter now
        E minorEm       E minorEm
It's like they really want to tell the truth
  DmDm      DmDm     E minorEm     E minorEm
We give our testimony to the end of the summer
     FF     FF
It's the end of the summer
    Em9Em9        Em9Em9
You can spin the light to gold