Indian Summer chords by Sandy Denny, Strawbs

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Verse 1
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Let's  (E minor) take a look at a typical  (A major) fam (E minor) ily
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living in  (G major) Queen Victori (A minor) a    (E minor) Square.
Major Duval and his wife
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 (A major) and  (E minor) only daughter  (G major) Ju liet live  (E minor) there.
There are souvenirs of old Kashmir
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in  (B major) every corner
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And  (E minor) photographs of the  (B major) family
in Bournemouth
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 (E minor) on their  (B major) holiday last year
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Major  (E minor) Duval served his  (A major) country  (E minor) in India
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for most of his twenty  (G major) army  (E minor) years
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Always said that  (A major) life in the  (E minor) army
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was quite the  (G major) finest of  (B major) careers
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 (E minor) Duval once had the privilege
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to shake the hand of  (B major) Gandhi
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And  (E minor) always said a  (B major) Brahmin friend
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was  (E minor) quite the very  (B major) be
st a man could have
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Duly  (E minor) Duval was at college
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 (A major) in  (E minor) Not tingham,
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studying an (G major) thropology
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 (E minor) She fell in love with a boy
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 (A major) from Cal (E minor) cutta,
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Studying  (G major) So ciology.
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 (E minor)  (B major) She thought  (E minor) Ashok
was the kind of boy
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her father would be  (B major) proud of.
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To have him  (E minor) as  a  (B major) son -in -law
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would  (E minor) make him quite the
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 (B major) happiest of men.
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 (E minor) Ju  nie wrote to her father  (A major) and told  (E minor) him,
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Said she was sure  (G major) he
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would be pleased.  (E minor) 
Ashok's father had served
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in the Indi (A major) an army
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 (E minor) When Hy (G major) derabad was  (E minor) seized.
As he read her letter,
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her father was quite  (B major) horrified.
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My  (E minor) God, what would the  (B major) neighbours say,
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Our  (E minor) daughter married  (B major) to a coloured man?