TWO GALLANTS – LONG SUMMER DAY
The song is played with capo on 2nd fret.
IMPORTANT:
- B is played like this (6th to 1st string): x214xx
- E6 is a normal E major actually, but you have to add some pull-offs from the
2nd fret on the B string. Like this:
e ------0-------|
B --------2p0---|
G ------------1-|
D --2-----------|
A --------------|
E 0---0---------|
E B E6
Well, the summer day make a white man lazy
A B E6
A E
Well, all I've ever known is poor
F#m E
Owe my skin to the country store
F#m E
Don’t own my walls, my roof, my door
B
But he tells me I'm free
A E
But I fight the will to live
F#m E
Hell might take but heaven gives
F#m E
It's the only one so I'll forgive
B
And Im not the one to grieve
E B E6
And the summer day make a white man lazy
E B E6
He sits on his porch killing time
A E A
I gotta work to feed my wife and baby
E B E
I work so god damn hard that it's a crime
A E
Well, I went down to the polling place
F#m E
The white men there just laughed in my face
F#m E
Saying boy, this ain’t no nigger's race
B
You best get on your way
A E
Sir, I believe I've got the right
F#m E
Said you ain’t got nothing if you ain’t white
F#m E
And I thought I said get out of sight
B
Well, what was I to say?
E B E6
And the summer day make a white man lazy
E B E6
He sits on his porch killing time
A E A
I gotta work to feed my wife and baby
E B E
I work so god damn hard that it's a crime
A E
When I was 'bout the age of five
F#m E
Watched my daddy burned alive
F#m E
They cut him low and they hung him high
B
Swayin' in the breeze
A E
The last words I heard him say
F#m E
Before they stole his life that day
F#m E
Was forgive them lord, they've gone astray
B
Now take me to my knees
E B E6
And the summer day make a white man lazy
E B E6
He sits on his porch killing time
Bm F#m A E
But the summer day make a nigger feel crazy
Bm F#m E B
Might make me do something out of line
Intermezzo:
A B E
E B E
Bm F#m A E
Bm F#m E B
A E
Well, I don’t know but I heard tell
F#m E
Of a furnace below a place called hell
F#m E
And who would catch me if I fell?
B
Who would pray for me?
A E
But one thing I see for sure
F#m E
It's hot as hell up here I know
F#m E
And the devil lives right down the road
B
It's all the same to me
A B E
And the summer day make a white man lazy
E B E6
He sits on his porch killing time
Bm F#m A E
But the summer day make a nigger feel crazy
Bm F#m E B
Might make me do something out of line
(all in barre chords)
C#m A
But if you should see my wife
E B
Tell her that I won’t be home tonight
C#m A
So don’t leave on the light
E A
I got a little business down the road
C#m A
And If I'm dead by sunrise
E B
Kiss my baby girl for me
E A
It ain’t life if it ain’t free
C#m B E6
I got a mighty burden to unload
