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This file is part of a collection that (moreso than the rest of the site) are not meant to be detailed or accurate transcriptions of the original recordings. They're just some simple chord charts that I made for my own use, some of them my own arrangements.
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"SUMMER SIDE OF LIFE" by Gordon Lightfoot www.lightfoot.ca
From his 1971 album of the same title
Written by Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr.
Transcribed by T-rev www.t-rev.net

No capo. Can tune drop-D.

 D         G   Gadd9   D         G   Gadd9

 D                      A
   He came down through fields of green
          G              D
   On the summer side of life
 A     G        D
   His love was ripe
 D                 A
   There were no illusions
          G              D
   On the summer side of life
 A      G         D
   Only tenderness

      F#7            Bm  A   G
          And if you saw him now
      F#7              Bm  A  G
          You'd wonder why----- he would cry
                        D
          The whole day long

(D)        G   Gadd9   D         G   Gadd9

 D                       A
   There was young girls everywhere
          G              D
   On the summer side of life
 A      G          D
   They talked all night
 D                  A
   To the young men that they knew
          G              D
   On the summer side of life
 A       G      D
   Goin' off to fight

      F#7            Bm  A    G
          And if you saw them now
      F#7              Bm  A  G
          You'd wonder why----- they would cry
                        D
          The whole day long

(D)        G   Gadd9   D         G   D/F#  Em

 D                      A
   He came down through fields of green
          G              D
   On the summer side of life
 A    G          D
   He prayed all night
 D                  A
   Then he walked into a house
         G                D
   Where love had been misplaced
 A     G         D
   His chance to waste

      F#7            Bm  A   G
          And if you saw him now
      F#7              Bm  A  G
          You'd wonder why----- he would cry
                        D
          The whole day long

(D)        G   Gadd9   D

      F#7            Bm  A   G
          And if you saw him now
      F#7              Bm  A  G
          You'd wonder why.....

Transcribed 2023-05-05 by T-rev
More tab available at www.t-rev.net

xx0232 D
320003 G
320203 Gadd9
x02220 A
242322 F#m
x24432 Bm
200232 D/F#
022000 Em
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