Summer Of '88 chords by
John Koerner

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Was the summer of 88
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on the great midwestern plains
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The heat rolled on
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and the rain did not rain
Was election year
and the candidates were
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cranking up a storm
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They were talkin' through their hats
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and blowin' hot air,
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and they weren't even gettin' warm
It's all around the countryside
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and the cities and the towns
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The price was goin' up
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and the quality was goin' down
Everywhere you'd look, yes,
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and everywhere you'd go
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Those liberal conservative
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left -right wingers
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were jawin' to the bone
And the moon hangs low
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and the moon hangs high
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And the good old earth hangs in the sky
The sun never rises
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and the sun it never sets
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And you know it ain't
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over yet
Down at the local waterhole
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some fools were hanging around
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And they were talking about this
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and talking about that
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And the air was getting brown
When somebody would come
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walking through the door
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They'd look them up
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and they'd look them down
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And they would not look no more
Their heads was full of sugar plums
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And fears of the enemy
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And the good and the bad and the ugly
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And some other fantasies
Yeah, time was passing
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And the weather was waiting outside
for many a soul
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the waterhole was a good place to hide
and the moon hangs low
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and the moon hangs high
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and the good old earth hangs in the sky
the sun never rises
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and the sun it never sets
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And you know it ain't over yet
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Meanwhile around the world
The money boys were
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workin' on their game
Goin' for the money
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like they didn't have no shame
And the nasty boys around the world
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Were workin' on their game
They had drums and guns
and sticks and stones
And they call each other names
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Verse 2

All the science boys and the

medicine boys

Were working on their

Verse 3

game

Verse 4

Changing the theories all around

Verse 5

And they'd change them around again

Verse 6

Yeah, the religion boys around the world

Were working on their

Verse 7

game

Verse 8

Trying to deny that God is

God the same

Verse 9

And the average boys around the world

Were working on their

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game

Lettin' those other boys tell them

how the game is played

Verse 11
Now if men will be boys
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and wo men will be girls
Tell me what in the world
is gonna happen
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To this old world

Verse 12
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Yeah, back at the local waterhole,
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some folks were hangin' around.
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They were talkin' to some
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other folks
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That were there from out of town

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Was Buffalo Joe and Lou his girl

They just getting back

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from a trip around the world

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Bill said to Joe, what was it like

Verse 16

Yeah, so what was it like,

said Barbecue Mike

Verse 17

Well, I saw some things

I had never seen before

And I'll never be the

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same again,
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I never know when
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Yeah, down in the city, out on the plains
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The wind does blow and it blows the same
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It blows the leaves, it blows the dust
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And it blows on them and it blows on us
A red -tailed hawk when he's
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a -flyin' up high
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Can see a little bitty snake
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with his razor -sharp eye
And an eight -hooter owl
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with her sensitive eye
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Can see a hundred thousand stars
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more than you and I
If anybody asked you
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who sang this song
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Tell them it was some fool
that had been here and gone
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If anybody asks you where did he go
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It's far, far away
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where the cool breezes blow
And the moon hangs low,
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the moon hangs high
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And the good old earth hangs in the sky
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The sun never rises
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and the sun never sets
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And you know it ain't over yet
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Yeah, the fat lady sang,
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and it ain't over yet
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