Summer Wages:Ian And Sylvia.
Album - So Much For Dreaming - on
VANGUARD Records in 1967. First released
in 1962.

INTRO: E A G Gbm

#1.
A     D             Em       G
Never hit seventeen when you play against the 
                D             B                    A
dealer, for you know that the odds won't ride with you.
C     D          A      D              G
Never leave your woman alone when your friends are out

to steal her.
          D                            A    D
Years are gambled and gone like summer wa...ges.

#2.
Bm        D    A       D         G
And we'll keep rollin' on til we get to Vancouver and the 
D            Bm                 A
woman that I love, she?s living there.
          D                   G
It's been six long months and more since I've seen her.
            D                            A   D
Maybe she?s gambled and gone like summer wa..ges.

CHORUS:
   A                    G              D
In all the beer parlors all down along Main Street,
                  Gbm             G                   A
the dreams of the seasons get all spilled down on the floor.
        A                         G           D
All the big stands of timber just waiting for falling,
                         Bm         G              A
and the hookers standing watchfully waiting by the door.

#3.
Bm       D                    Gbm     G
So, I'll work on the towboats with my slippery city shoes..
        D             Bm        A
Lord, I swore I would never do again.
Bm          D                     Em        G
Through the gray fogbound straits where the Cedars stand 
                  D                            A   D
watchin', I'll be far off and gone like summer wa..ges.

CHORUS:
   A                    G              D
In all the beer parlors all down along Main Street,
                  Gbm             G                   A
the dreams of the seasons get all spilled down on the floor.
        A                         G           D
All the big stands of timber just waiting for falling,
                         Bm         G              A   G Gbm Em
and the hookers standing watchfully waiting by the door.

#4.
Em    D             A        G
Never hit seventeen when you play against the 
                D             B                    A
dealer, for you know that the odds won't ride with you.
C     D          A      D              G
Never leave your woman alone when your friends are out

to steal her.
          D                            A   D
Years are gambled and lost like summer wa..ges.

OUTRO:    
G         D           Bm               A   D   A D
Years are gambled and lost like summer wa..ges.



A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.