End Of The Summer chords by Dar Williams

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
Am  Am  Em  G  x2

Verse 1:
Am            Am          Em              G
   The summer ends and we wonder where we are
    Am               Am                 Em            G
And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car
        C            C
And you both look so young
    G              G
And last night was hard, you said
    Am              Am
You packed up every room
             Em                G
And then you cried and went to bed
      Am                 Am
But today you closed the door
             Em            Em
And said "We have to get a move on
     Fmaj7             Fmaj7
It's just that time of year
        G               G
When we push ourselves ahead
   Am              Am      Am
We push ourselves ahead."
           Dm            Dm
And it was cloudy in the morning
       Em            Em
And it rained as you drove away
        Dm                 Dm
And the same things looked different
         Em         Em
It's the end of the summer
         Fmaj7      Fmaj7
It's the end of the summer
         Em9      Em9
When you move to another place

Verse 2:
      Am            Am                       Em           G
And I feel like the neighbor's girl who will never be the same
    Am               Am                Em                 G
She walked alone all spring, she had a boyfriend when the summer came
    C           C            G         G
And he gave her flowers in a lightning storm
     Am             Am       Em              G
They disappeared at night in green fields of silver corn
    Am            Am             Em              Em
And sometime in July she just forgot that he was leaving
   Fmaj7                Fmaj7      G              Em
So when the fields were dying, she held on to his sleeves
    Am             Am        Am
She held on to his sleeves
        Dm              Dm
And she doesn't want to let go
           Em                    Em
'Cause she won't know what she's up against
    Dm                 Dm
The classrooms and the smart girls
         Em         Em
It's the end of the summer
         Fmaj7      Fmaj7
It's the end of the summer
         Em9               Em9
When you hang your flowers up to dry

Instrumental:
Am  Am  Em  G  x2

Verse 3:
Am          Am                  Em                G
And I had a dream, it blows the autumn through my head
   Am                  Am                       Em           G
It felt like the first day of school, but I was going to the moon instead
      C               C
And I walked down the hall
         G              G
With the notebooks they got for me
   Am         Am
My dad led me through the house
   Em                G
My mom drank instant coffee
      Am                Am
And I knew that I would crash
      Em             Em
But I didn't want to tell them
          Fmaj7             Fmaj7           Fmaj7        Fmaj7
There are just some moments       when your family makes sense
     Am        Am    Am
They just make sense
     Dm           Dm          Em             Em
So I raised up my arms and my mother put the sweater on
   Dm                Dm              Em
We walked out on the dark and frozen grass
               Em
The end of the summer
         Em         Em
It's the end of the summer
         Em9                       Em9
When you send your children to the moon

Verse 4:
Am            Am          Em            G
   The summer ends and we wonder who we are
    Am               Am                 Em            G
And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car
      C                C                G          G
And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree
  Am                    Am
I passed the farms that made it
            Em               G
Through the last days of the century
      Am              Em              Em
And I knew that I was going to learn again
 Em            Fmaj7     Fmaj7
Again, in this last hazy light
          G                 Em
I saw the fields beyond the fields
    Am                Am       Am
The fields beyond the fields
        Dm              Dm
And the colors are much brighter now
               Em             Em
It's like they really want to tell the truth
   Dm            Dm          Em         Em
We give our testimony to the end of the summer
         F          F
It's the end of the summer
        Em9               Em9
You can spin the light to gold