Wild Strawberries

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Gordon Lightfoot - Wild Strawberries
C F
## ~ = Walk-Down from to ##
CAPO: 4th Fret
[VERSE 1:]
C G F C
If I had a dollar, if I had a cent
G F G
I would play most anywhere, if it would pay my rent
F G F G
I'd be living on the downside in my old apartment
C F G Em
For the rest of my days
F
People always ask why the world is on the run
Em F Em
People like you and like me
[VERSE 2:]
F
Is it really true, you can really never win
G Am G F
Moving to the upside, tell me when does the fun begin
C
Deep as the sea and as wild as the weather
F C F G
We will go, just you and me, to pick wild strawberries together
C
Or be living on our own, in a cabin in a meadow
F G
Or meandering alone, we can face the world forever or we'll
[CHORUS:]
C F G C
~
Hit the bounding main, or be on a railroad train
F G C
~
Hit the boundless tide, or be on a steamboat ride
F G C
~
Hit the bounding main, or be on a midnight plane
F G C Em
~
Hit the pounding tide, or be on a rainbow ride
[VERSE 3:]
F G
People often ask me just the way it must feel
F Em
To be standing up here with you down there
F
Let it now be known that throughout all of these years
G Am G F C
I have been wearing polka dot underwear
[VERSE 4:]
Deep as the sea and as wild as the weather
F C F G
We will go, just wait and see, to gather crab-apples together
C
And be wandering along toward a cabin in the meadow
F G
Or meandering alone, we can face the world together or we'll
[CHORUS:]
C F G C
~
Hit the bounding main, or be on a railroad train
F G C
~
Hit the boundless tide, or be on a steamboat ride
F G C
~
Hit the bounding main, or be on a midnight plane
F G C Em
~
Hit the pounding tide, or be on a rainbow ride
G C G C G C G C G C G C Em
[INSTRUMENTAL:]
[VERSE 5:]
F
People always ask why the world is on the slide
Em F Em
People like you and like me
F
Is it really true there will be no place left to hide
G Am G F C
Turning to the upside, when does the fun begin
[VERSE 6:]
Deep as the sea and as wild as the weather
F C F G
We might go, just you and me, to pick wild strawberries together
C
Or be living on our own, in a cabin in a meadow
F
And the cows will come home
G
They can face the world forever and we'll
[CHORUS:]
C F G C
~
Hit the bounding main, or be on a railroad train
F G C
~
Hit the boundless tide, or be on a steamboat ride
F G C
~
Hit the bounding main, or be on a midnight plane
F G C
~
Hit the pounding tide, or be on a rainbow ride
F G C
~
Hit the bounding main or be on a midnight plane
C F G C
[OUTRO:] ~

Wild Strawberries chords and lyrics

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Gordon Lightfoot - Wild Strawberries
## ~ = Walk-Down from C to F ##
CAPO: 4th Fret
[VERSE 1:]
[VERSE 2:]
[CHORUS:]
[VERSE 3:]
[VERSE 4:]
Deep as the sea and as wild as the weather 
[CHORUS:]
[INSTRUMENTAL:] G  C  G  C  G  C  G  C  G  C  G  C  Em
[VERSE 5:]
[VERSE 6:]
Deep as the sea and as wild as the weather 
[CHORUS:]
[OUTRO:] C ~ F  G  C

Wild Strawberries Chords by Gordon Lightfoot

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