Summer Wages

A -> G
D -> C
F#m -> Em
E -> D


[Verse 1]
A                             D
Never hit seventeen, when you play 
against the dealer
        A               F#m       
For you know that those odds won't
           E
 ride with you
          A                      
And never leave your woman alone, 
      D
with friends around to steal her
          A           F#m     
Years are gambled and lost like 
         E   A
summer wages

[Verse 2]
A                               D
So we'll keep rollin on, til we get 
to Vancouver
      A            F#m             
And a woman that I love, is living 
E
there
             A                  
Oh it's been six long months and 
 D
more since I've seen her
      A           F#m              
Maybe gambled and lost like summer 
E   A
wages

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[Chorus]
       E                        
And in all the beer parlors, all 
 D       A
down on Young Street
                  F#m         
The dreams of the seasons, all 
 D                   A
spilled down on the floor
        E                       
All the big stands of timber are 
 D         A
ready for falling
                         F#m       
And the hustlers sitting 
          D                 E
watchfully, as they wait there by 
the door

[Verse 3]
        A                          
So I'll work on the towboats, in my
 D
 slippery city shoes
        A         F#m      E
Which I swore I'd never do again
            A                      
Through the gray fog-bound straits,
           D
 where the cedars stand watching
        A           F#m      
I'll be far off and gone, like 
         E   A
summer wages

[Chorus]
       E                        
And in all the beer parlors, all 
 D       A
down on Young Street
                  F#m         
The dreams of the seasons, all 
 D                   A
spilled down on the floor
        E                       
All the big stands of timber are 
 D         A
ready for falling
                         F#m       
And the hustlers sitting 
          D                 E
watchfully, as they wait there by 
the door


[Verse 4]
            A                      
For she’s a woman so fine, I might 
D
never try to find her
        A            F#m      
For the memories are all we had 
  E
before
            A                      
They should never ever be changed, 
               D
'cause they’re all that I’ll take 
with me
         A           F#m          
Now I’ve gambled and lost my 
  E   A
summer wages.

[Verse 5]
A                             D
Never hit seventeen, when you play 
against the dealer
        A               F#m       
For you know that those odds won't
           E
 ride with you
          A                      
And never leave your woman alone, 
      D
with friends around to steal her
          A           F#m     
Years are gambled and lost like 
         E   A   D   A   D   A 
summer wages
  D   A