Summer Wages chords by 
Bobby Bare 
N/A
Key: B major•
Intro 1
G#m
F#
B
E
F#sus4
B
G#m
F#sus4
F#
B
Verse 1
B
Never hit seventeen
E
When you play against the
F#sus4
dealer for you know
B
G#m
F#sus4
F#
The odds won't ride with you
B
Never leave your woman alone
E
B
E
When your friends are out to
B
steal her years again
G#m
F#sus4
F#
B
And lost like summer wages
E
B
And we'll keep rollin' on
E
till we get to Vancouver
B
G#m
And the one that I love
F#sus4
is livin' there
F#
B
It's been six long months
E
and more since I've seen her
B
Never made the gamble
G#m
and gone like summer
F#sus4
F#
B
wages
F#
In all of the beer bars
E
B
down along Main Street
F#
B
G#m
The dreams of the sea son
E
F#sus4
F#
B
are all spilled out on the floor
F#
Are the big stands of timber
E
just wait ing for the fall
B
G#m
And the hookers waiting watch fully
E
B
E
F#
C#m
F#
as they sit there by the door
B
So I'll work on the towboats
E
with my slip pery city shoes on
B
G#m
Which I swore I would never do
F#sus4
F#
again
B
Through the gray fog -bound streets
E
Where the cedars stand waiting
B
G#m
F#sus4
I'll be far off and gone like summer wages
F#
B
F#
G#m
F#
B
E
F#sus4
B
G#m
F#
B
G#m
F#
And all of the beer bars
E
B
down along Main Street
G#m
The dreams of the sea son
E
F#
B
are all spilled out on the floor
F#
By the big stands of timber
E
B
just waiting for the fall
G#m
And the hookers waiting watchfully
E
F#
F#sus4
as they sit there by the door
C#m
F#
B
So I'll work on the towboats
E
with my slip pery city shoes on
B
G#m
Which I swore I would nev
F#sus4
er do again
F#
B
Through the grey fog -bound streets
E
where the cedars stand waiting
B
G#m
I'll be far off and gone like
F#sus4
F#
B
summer wages
E
F#
B
Years I gambled and
G#m
lost like summer wages
F#
B
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ChordsG#m F# B E F#sus4...
G#m
F#
B
E
F#sus4
C#m
Capo: 4
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