Strawberry Blonde Chords by Ron Sexsmith

[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Bm] _ She was not [E] the girl next door, [A] but the girl from [D] around the [A] corner
_ [Bm] It's not the [E] telling of grade four when [A] she came to school one [D] _ morning
_ And all eyes [E] were upon [A] her [E] as she took her [F#m] seat
Her [D] _ name [E]
was Amanda, [A] _ _ [E] pretty as [F#m] a green hair [D] _ _ plumb
[E] _ _ Strawberry _ [A] _ plumb, _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ springtime [E] _ _ _ [D] [A] dandelions in summer around [F#m] the corner
_ [Bm] It's not the telling [E] of age [Bm] [A] nine, a million [D] dreams before her
She _ lived [E] with her mother [A] in an [E] old [F#m] decrepit _ house
[D] _ _ If [E] there was trouble at [A] home [E] she kept it to [F#m] herself
For all [Bm] summer _ long, [E] _ _ strawberry _ [A] _ plumb
_ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ And by [C#m] her _ _ [D] face there [A] was no way to [D] tell
It seemed [A] like all was [E] well in the world
_ _ [C#] _ _ [F#m] But the neighbors [C#m] _ said [D] _ _ her mother [A] had lost her [D] will
Gin _
[A] and sleeping pills, it [E] was no life _ for our little [A] girl _
Still _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ [C#] _ _ [F#m] _ _ I [C#m] see her _ _ [D] face _ [A] framed in blue [D] sky
At the [A] top of a [E] slide _ coming down
[C#] And _ [F#m] _ when the [C#m] sirens _ _ [D] wailed, her mother [A] had failed to [D] rise
All the [A] neighbors stood [E] outside and Amanda _ just stared at [A] the ground _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ Nine flies [E] in the pile, [A] I'd forgotten all [D] about [A] her
_ [B] _ [Bm] When I [E] saw her down the [D] aisle [A] of the streetcar with [D] her daughter
_ _ _ Well [E] I heard Amanda [A] _ [E] say she [F#m] got a
_ _ [D] Come _ [E]
on Samantha, [A] _ [E] girl this is our [F#m] stop
Then they [D] were gone, _
[E] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [E] _
to strawberry [A] plumb _ _
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