Gino Vannelli – Last Days Of Summer (Guitar)

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C4-middle C

    Ebm11     Db/F     Ab     Gb/Ab     Ab
The trees are full and green

    Ebm11   Db/F      Ab  
The garden  sweet and lush

    Ab            Db  Bbm7    Ebm7 Db      Ab
The warmth of the sun      be lies Sep tem ber

  Gm7-5  Gb7-5  Fm7    Bbm7   Ebm7  Db     Ab
A truth  to     which       I must  surren der

    Gbmaj7-5   Fm7   Db/F
The hours are  num   bered

      Bbm7         Db/F  Gbmaj7
These last days of sum   mer

    Ebm11      Db/F          Ab      Gb/Ab
Her sundress,      pink and white

   Ebm11   Db/F        Ab
An orchid       in her hair

   Ab       Db/F  Bbm7    Ebm7  Db  Ab
As lovely a sight      as ever  to  me

     Gm7-5 C7 Fm7   Bbm7  Ebm7  Db      Ab
Were I     a  stran ger   would she woo me

  Ab/Gb          Fm7   Gbmaj7     
I can't help but won   der

      Bbm7         Db/F  Bb6/9
These last days of sum   mer

F9              Bb/F
Thinking the un thinkable

F9                  Bb  F+5/Bb  Bb
Chased   with lemon tea

Ab            Ab/Gb  Db/F
Thoughts that never  crossed my mind

     Abdim     G7     Cadd9
When I     was twenty-three

    Gdim  Gb7   Badd9 Gb/B Badd9
Too busy  being me

  F9                  Bb/F
A ship once hailed un sinkable

   Ab/Gb              Bb  F+5/Bb  Bb 
Is floundering in the deep

  C       C/Bb               F/A  Am7 
A boy who once prayed to his God

Ab7             Db      Gb/Db  Db  Gb/Db Db  Gb/Db Ab/Db
For his soul to keep

      F            G7-9          C      Bbm/C   C
Would settle for a good  night's sleep

   Fm     C7-9          Fm/D   C7-9
My father warned of the waning years                            

     Db    Db9   G7-5       Ab      Db    G7   C
What every man         goes through

  Fm/C        Dbdim        Fm/D         Edim
I thought him weak and too fraught with fear                                   

   Fm/Eb  Fm/D     Db7-5  G7       Ab    Db   G7   C
To see         his tragic point of view

       F/A     Bbm6 
It's a sad cli ché

         F/C                 Bbm6/Db 
But ever since he's passed a way

     Ab/C      Dbdim      Fm/Ab  C/Ab
He's ever more present to me

        Gadd9/D  B7/D 
Looking past my  prime

       Gadd9/D       B7/D 
Waging war on Father Time

      Bb/D         F7/C   B        Bb  Bb-5 
Dad I think I understand,    final ly

Bbm             Cdim        F7/C      Bbm
Strange that my eyes should gain more sight

       Bb7-9    Ebm    Eb7-9     F7/Eb  F7/Db  F7/C   F7
As the days  be gin to lose the  li-    ight 

Bbm    Bb11  Adim  F7/A  Db/Ab 
Winter looms on    my ho rizon

Gb6     Db/F     Ebm7   Dbmaj7
Look at me in my summer wear

Gb6        Gdim  F7
Completely un        pre pared

   Ebm11          Ab
We wrestle in the grass

     Ebm11    Db       Ab
He's grown so tall so quick

  Ab          Db/F Bbm7    Ebm7  Db     Ab
I struggle to get      the bet   ter of him

Gm7-5 Gb7-5   Fm7  Bbm7     Ebm7 Db      Ab
Just  how     much        I tru  ly love him

Ab/Gb          Fm7 
This I've dis  covered

      Bbm7         Db/F  Gbmaj7 
These last days of sum   mer

Gm7-5   Gb9-5  Fm7  Bbm7   Ebm7 Db      Ab
Just    how    much      I tru  ly love them

       Db/F             Gbmaj7
…These last days of sum mer