From: Chris Walker [email protected]
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I was in your presence for an hour or so
D G
Or was it a day? I truly don’t know
G C
Where the sun never set, where the trees hung low
D G
By the soft and shining sea
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Did you respect me for what I did or for what I did’nt do
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Or for keepin’ it hid?
G C
Did I lose my mind the night I tried toget rid
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Of everything you see
CHORUS G C
In the summertime
D G
Ah In the summertime
G C
In the summertime
D G
When you were with me
G C
I got the heart and you got the blood,
D G
We can cut through iron, we can cut through mud.
G C
Then came the warnin’ that was before the flood
D G
That set everybody free
G C
Fools they made a mock of sin
D G
Our loyalty they tried to win
G C
But you were closer to me than my next of kin
D G
They didn’t want to know or see CHORUS
G C
Strangers, they meddled in our affairs,
D G
Poverty and shame was theirs.
G C
But all that sufferin’ was not to be compered
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With the glory that is to be
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And I’m still carrying the gift you gave;
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It’s a part of me now it’s been cherished and saved
G C
It’ll be with me un-til the grave
D G
Then unto eternit-y CHORUS
