this song is played live with a capo on 2 however this tab is written to be played without a capo.

Intro:  Just play F# C#7 G#m7 in different orders

          F#5                C#5        F#5
Well, the summer day make a white man lazy
B5                     F#5
 Well, all I've ever known is poor
C#5                   F#5
Owe my skin to the country store
Ab5              F#5
Dont own my walls, my roof, my door
C#5
But he tells me I'm free
B5                F#5
But I fight the will to live
C#5                 F#5
Hell might take but heaven gives
Ab5                  F#5
It's the only one so I'll forgive
C#5                  
And Im not the one to grieve

        F#5                 C#5       F#5
And the summer day make a white man lazy
     F#5          C#5          F#5
He sits on his porch killing time
B5                F#5              Ab5
I gotta work to feed my wife and baby
F#5                  C#5              F#5
I work so god damn hard that it's a crime

B5                        F#5
Well, I went down to the polling place
C#5                       F#5
The white men there just laughed in my face
       Ab5               F#5
Saying boy, this aint no nigger's race
    C#5
You best get on your way
B5                    F#5
Sir, I believe I've got the right
         C#5                  F#5
Said you aint got nothing if you aint white
       Ab5              F#5
And I thought I said get out of sight
      C#5
Well, what was I to say?

        F#5                 C#5       F#5
And the summer day make a white man lazy
     F#5          C#5          F#5
He sits on his porch killing time
B5                F#5              Ab5
I gotta work to feed my wife and baby
F#5                  C#5              F#5
I work so god damn hard that it's a crime

     B5                F#5
When I was 'bout the age of five   
C#5               F#5
Watched my daddy burned alive
Ab5                       F#5
They cut him low and they hung him high
C#5
Swayin' in the breeze
B5                F#5
The last words I heard him say
C#5                   F#5                    
Before they stole his life that day
    Ab5                       F#5
Was forgive them lord, they've gone astray
     C#5
Now take me to my knees

         F#5               C#5        F#5
And the summer day make a white man lazy
F#5             C#5            F#5
He sits on his porch killing time
          F#5           Ab5            B5      F#5      
But the summer day make a nigger feel crazy
F#5                  C#5             F#5
Might make me do something out of line



Solo (figure it out. Same chords...)


B5                    F#5
Well, I dont know but I heard tell
     C#5               F#5
Of a furnace below a place called hell
     Ab5               F#5
And who would catch me if I fell?
C#5
Who would pray for me?
B5              F#5
But one thing I see for sure
     C#5            F#5
It's hot as hell up here I know
         Ab5             F#5
And the devil lives right down the road
C#5
It's all the same to me

         F#5               C#5        F#5
And the summer day make a white man lazy
F#5             C#5            F#5
He sits on his porch killing time
          F#5           Ab5            B5      F#5      
But the summer day make a nigger feel crazy
F#5                  C#5             F#5
Might make me do something out of line

       Eb5               B5 ( E5 barre shape)
But if you should see my wife
                F#5            C#5
Tell her that I wont be home tonight
    Eb5              B5  ( E5 barre shape)
So dont leave on the light
F#5                              Ab5 C#5 
I got a little buisness down the road
    Eb5            B5 ( E5 barre)
And If I'm dead by sunrise
F#5                   C#5
Kiss my baby girl for me
       Eb5               B5 ( E5 barre)
It aint life if it aint free
F#5             C#5        F#5
I got a mighty burden to unload

Outro: Verse Chords + some others.. idk.