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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# C#7 F#7
Well, the summer day make a white man lazy
B F#
Well, all I've ever known is poor
C#7 F#
Owe my skin to the country store
Abm7 F#7
Dont own my walls, my roof, my door
C#7
But he tells me I'm free
B F#
But I fight the will to live
C#7 F#
Hell might take but heaven gives
Abm7 F#7
It's the only one so I'll forgive
C#7
And Im not the one to grieve
F# C#7 F#7
And the summer day make a white man lazy
F# C#7 F#7
He sits on his porch killing time
B F# Abm7
I gotta work to feed my wife and baby
F# C#7 F#7
I work so god damn hard that it's a crime
B F#
Well, I went down to the polling place
C#7 F#
The white men there just laughed in my face
Abm7 F#
Saying boy, this aint no nigger's race
C#7
You best get on your way
B F#
Sir, I believe I've got the right
C#7 F#
Said you aint got nothing if you aint white
Abm7 F#
And I thought I said get out of sight
C#7
Well, what was I to say?
F# C#7 F#7
And the summer day make a white man lazy
F# C#7 F#7
He sits on his porch killing time
B F# Abm7
I gotta work to feed my wife and baby
F# C#7 F#7
I work so god damn hard that it's a crime
B F#
When I was 'bout the age of five
C#7 F#
Watched my daddy burned alive
Abm7 F#
They cut him low and they hung him high
C#7
Swayin' in the breeze
B F#
The last words I heard him say
C#7 F#
Before they stole his life that day
Abm7 F#
Was forgive them lord, they've gone astray
C#7
Now take me to my knees
F# C#7 F#7
And the summer day make a white man lazy
F# C#7 F#7
He sits on his porch killing time
F# Abm7 B F#
But the summer day make a nigger feel crazy
F# C#7 F#7
Might make me do something out of line
Solo (figure it out. Same chords...)
B F#
Well, I dont know but I heard tell
C#7 F#
Of a furnace below a place called hell
Abm7 F#
And who would catch me if I fell?
C#7
Who would pray for me?
B F#
But one thing I see for sure
C#7 F#
It's hot as hell up here I know
Abm7 F#
And the devil lives right down the road
C#7
It's all the same to me
F# C#7 F#7
And the summer day make a white man lazy
F# C#7 F#7
He sits on his porch killing time
F# Abm7 B F#
But the summer day make a nigger feel crazy
F# C#7 F#7
Might make me do something out of line
Ebm B (E barre shape)
But if you should see my wife
F# C#7
Tell her that I wont be home tonight
Ebm B (E barre shape)
So dont leave on the light
F# Abm7 C#7
I got a little buisness down the road
Ebm B (E barre)
And If I'm dead by sunrise
F# C#7
Kiss my baby girl for me
Ebm B (E barre)
It aint life if it aint free
F# C#7 F#
I got a mighty burden to unload
Outro: Verse Chords + some others.. idk.
