Summer Wages Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

 Intro C F C G C

 Never hit Cseventeen

 When you play agFainst the dealer

 You knowC that the odds

 Won't ride with you G

 Never leCave your woman alone

 With your friendFs around to steal her

 She'll be gambleCd and gone

 Like summer wages G

And we'll keep rollin on

Till we get to Vancouver

And the lady that I love

Shes living there

Its been six long months

And more since I've seen her

Maybe she's gambled and gone

Like summer wages

 (Chorus)G

In all the beer parlors

  All downF along Main SteeCt

  The dreaCms of the season

  Are spilFled down on the floor G

  All the bigG stands of timber

  WaFit there just for fallin'C

  The hookCers stand watchfully

  WaitiFn by the door G

I'm going to work on them towboats

With my slippery city shoes

Lord I swore I would never do that again

Through the great fog bound straights

Where the cedars stand waitin

I'll be lost and gone

Like summer wages

(Break - fiddle same as verse)

(Chorus)

Never hit seventeen

When you play against the dealer

You know that the odds

Won't ride with you

Never leave your woman alone

With your friends around to steal her

She'll be gambled and gone

Like summer wages

FAnd the years are gambled aCnd lost

 Like summer wages G C G C