Gordon Lightfoot – Wild Strawberries (Guitar)

Capo 4
Key
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Chords

## ~ = Walk-Down from C to F ## 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
[INSTRUMENTAL:] G C G C G C G C G C G C Em [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
[OUTRO:] C ~ F G C