Ben Howard – Hot Heavy Summer (Guitar)

Half-Step Down (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb)

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Note: The recording is played tuned 1/2 step low. There's a video on YouTube of a live version performed in Sydney that was played 1/2 step higher in standard tuning.

Riff:
     C C  C/D C/E C    F
e |-----------------|--1-----------|
B |-----------------|--1-----------|
G |-----------------|--2-----------|
D |--------0--2-----|--3-----------|
A |--3--3--------3--|--3-----------|
E |-----------------|--1-----------|

|F                |C    C/D C/E C |
 ... Baby wants to dance

|F                      |C            C/D C/E C |
 .. Past the flat-footed charterhouse boys

|F                       |C             C/D C/E C |
 ... From towns where the mothers can't stand

|F                        |C     C/D C/E C |
 .. Mmm, the sight of each other

[Verse 2]

|F                |C   C/D C/E C |
 ... Baby wants to last

|F                      |C        C/D C/E C |
 .. In the hearts of the wild and free

|F                 |C              C/D C/E C |
 ... She knows that time takes all of us

|F                                |C      C/D C/E C | F |
 .. Through every long, hot, heavy summer

[Chorus]

   |Am                G                 |F
And all of them, they talk of national security

    |Am            G               |F
Over garden fences made to buff the bastard breeze

  |C       |F        | C |
Of chance encounters

[Verse 3]

|F                |C    C/D C/E C |
 ... Baby wants to dance

|F                          |C       C/D C/E  C |
 .. Past the Tuesday morning supermarket crowd

|F                  |C                 C/D C/E C
 ... She knows we'll all sleep through the days

       |F                    |C       C/D C/E C |
 And be two-step drip fed our laughter

[Verse 4]

|F                    |C    C/D C/E C |
 ... Says she wants to last

|F                   |C       C/D C/E C |
 .. Mmm, last how you want to

|F                       |C           C/D C/E C |
 ... She's a light in the young boy's eyes

|F                                |C      C/D C/E C | F |
 .. Through every long, hot, heavy summer

[Chorus]

   |Am                G                 |F
And all of them, they talk of national security

    |Am            G               |F
Over garden fences made to buff the bastard breeze

     |Am           G                  |F
Yeah, all of them, shufflin' down that lonely street

   |C         C/D C/E C |
One last gasp

|F                            |C     C/D C/E C | F |
 .. Against a long, hot, heavy summer

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