Soft Blow The Summer Winds chords by
Barry Mcguire
Barry Mcguire

N/A
Key: A major
Verse 1
G
G

C
C

G
G

C
C

We are alone, one hilltop closer to the sun,
G
G

and yet perhaps one moment from eternity.
Quickly almost as in prayer our hands meet,
C
C

G
G

Em
Em

G
G

and yet these hands are not our hands, but
prophets join to oracle the end,
C
C

G
G

and it's almost here.
F
F

Sally, if you must believe while I am gone,
C
C

G
G

believe in rain and children.
C
C

F
F

Name this hillside tomorrow an
C
C

d meet me here in memory.
F
F

Take what remnants of
our dreams are left
C
C

and cherish them for my return.
And last of all,
Sally, for always,
G
G

Cm
Cm

love me.
G
G

Things end.
C
C

G
G

It is the nature of the universe.
Eiffel
C
C

Towers twist and fracture.
Nor is there
G
G

a stay of execution for the leaves
at autumn's end.
She cannot think of him as dead,
and so
she thinks of him as summer.
She will not mourn him.
He is living still.
Ab
Ab

G
G

She will not call him
F
F

dead, nor will she gather small
G
G

mementos and start labeling them him.
C
C

For
Jamie was always
G
G

mourning to her, without its tired grief,
F
F

its acrid taste, and utter lack of reason.
Am
Am

F
F

And she has seen the sun again.
G
G

Ebm
Ebm

It blinds her, though she hides her eyes.
G
G

Now it is
F
F

more as if her flesh were marble,
Ab
Ab

F
F

Ab
Ab

animated by a will to die.
She shall not die,
Ab
Ab

Db
Db

Ebm
Ebm

but will have come to know death better.
Em
Em

B
B

Ebm
Ebm

Db
Db

Ebm
Ebm

Soft blow the sum mer winds, where
B
B

Ebm
Ebm

Jamie lies,
Db
Db

B
B

Ebm
Ebm

Db
Db

he won't have to fight again.
Ebm
Ebm

Db
Db

Ebm
Ebm

Sally, don't you cry
Db
Db

Ebm
Ebm

Fm
Fm

Db
Db

He won't have to fight again
Ebm
Ebm

Db
Db

E
E

Bb
Bb

Bbm
Bbm

Ebm
Ebm

Sally, don't you cry
Db
Db

F
F

Ebm
Ebm

Soft blow the summer winds where
Db
Db

Jamie lies,
Ebm
Ebm

Db
Db

she won't have to fight again,
Ebm
Ebm

Jamie's dead.
F
F

Ab
Ab

Bbm
Bbm

Ebm
Ebm

Db
Db

Sally is dead.
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