Chords for (8) Summer Wages :: J.D. Crowe And The New South

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Never hit seventeen _ _ [E]
when you play against the dealer, _ [B]
for you know _ [G#m] that the odds won't ride [F#] with you.
And _ _ [B] never leave your woman alone _ [E] when your friends are out to steal her, [B] years are gambled and lost like [F#] summer _ _ _ [B] wages. _ _ _
And _ we'll keep a-rollin' on till [E] we get [B] to Vancouver and the woman that I [C#] love is livin' [F#] there. _ _
_ _ It's [B] been six long months _ [E] and more since I've seen her, she [B] may be gambled and [G#m] gone like summer _ [F#] _ _ [B]
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[F#] _ all the beer _ taverns [E] all down _ [B] along Yonge Street, the _ dreams of the [D#m] seasons are [E] all spilled down [B] on the floor.
[F#] All the big stands of timber _ [E]
just waitin' [B] for a _ -fallin', and the hustlers sittin' [D#m] watchfully [E] as they wait there by [F#] the door. _ _
_ _ [B] So I'll work on them towboats in [E] my slippery city _ [B] shoes, which I swore I would never [C#] do again.
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Through [F#] _ _ [B] the grey fog-bound straits where [E] the cedars stand _ watchin', I'll be [B] far off [G#m] and gone like summer [F#] _ _ _
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_ _ _ She's a woman _ so fine, [E] I may never try to [B] find her, for good memories [C#m] are what we had [F#] before. _ _
_ _ They [B] should never be _ changed, [E] for they're all that I'll take with me, [B] now I've _ gambled [G#] and lost my summer [C#] _ _ _ [B]
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_ _ [E] Years [B] are gambled and [G#] lost like [F#] summer _ _ wages. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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