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The End of the Summer chords by
Dar Williams
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Key: Bb minor•
Verse 1
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The summer
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G
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ends and we won der where we are
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And there you go, my friends,
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with your boxes in your car
C
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And you both look so young
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And last night was hard, you said
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You packed up every room
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And then you cried and went to bed
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But today you closed the door and said
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"We have to get a move on.
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It's just that time of year when we
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Em
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push ourselves ahead,
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We push ourselves ahead."
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And it was cloudy in the morning And it
Verse 2
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rained as you drove away
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And the same things looked different
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It's the end of the summer
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It's the end of the summer,
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When you move to another place
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And I feel like the neighbor's
Verse 3

girl
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who will never be the same
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She walked alone all spring,
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She had a boy friend
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when the summer came
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And he gave her flowers
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in a lightning storm
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They disappeared at night
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in green fields of silver corn
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And sometime in July she just
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forgot that he was leaving
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So when the fields were dying,
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she held on to his sleeves
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She held on to his sleeves
Verse 4
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And she doesn't want to let

go
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'Cause she won't

know what she's up against
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The classrooms and the smart girls
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It's the end of the summer
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It's the en d of the summer
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When you hang your flowers up to dry
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Verse 5
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Am
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And I had a dream it blows the
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au tumn through my head
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It felt like the first day of school
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But I was going to the moon instead
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And I walked down the hall
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With the notebooks they got for me
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My dad led me through the house
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My mom drank instant coffee
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And I knew that I would crash
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But I didn't want to tell them
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There are just some moments when
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Em
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your family makes sense
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They just make sense
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Em
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So I raised up my arms and my mother
Verse 6


put the sweater on
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We walked out on the dark and frozen
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grass

The end of the summer
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It's the end of the summer
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When you send your children
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to the moon
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Verse 7

The summer ends and we
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won der who we are
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And there you go, my friends,
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G
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with your boxes in your car
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And today I passed the high school,
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the river, the maple tree
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I passed the farms that made it
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G
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Through the last days of the century
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Em
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And I knew that I was go

ing to learn again
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Again, in this less hazy light
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Em
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I saw the fields beyond the fields
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The fields beyond the fields
Verse 8
Dm
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And the colors are much brighter

now
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It's like they really want to tell the truth
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We give our testimony to
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the end of the summer
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It's the end of the summer,
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Tuning:Standard Open Tuner
Chords

  • Am

  • Em

  • G

  • C

  • F

  • Dm

  • Asus4

Capo: 1

Transpose: 0

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The original key of The End of the Summer by Dar Williams is Bb minor.

The primary chords used in The End of the Summer are Bbm, Fm, Ab, Db, Gb, Ebm.

To play in the original key, place your capo on the 1 fret.

Yes, this version uses open chords like Bbm, Fm, Ab, Db, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of The End of the Summer is approximately 39 beats per minute.

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