Ryan Adams – Strawberry Wine (Guitar)

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G
Last night the street collapsed on itself

C          C/B             Am
In fact it broke right in two

      Em      D/F# G
And I fell in strawberry vines

C               Am
Into a pool of strawberry wine

G     D/F# G     F# G
Strawberry wine inclines

C               C/B     Am
Burning in the desert surrounded by fires

        Em                               D/F#     G
but the stems break beyond more than the morning calls

C                       C/B        Am
Till it's all just the same thing again, oh God

D                                Am          (C/B)
Don't spend too much time on the other side

D                Am
Let the daylight in

G*                                               C        Am
Before you give up and you can't break out of it my old friend

G*
Cause it's getting worse if you want any flowers

    C                      C/B      Am
You better get your seeds into the ground

    D Am          G Gsus G
And I worry about you

D    Am                  G C G
Why? Because you want me to

G
Can you still have any famous last words

C                         Am
If you're somebody nobody knows

        Em
I don't know

G                                      C
Somebody go and ask Claire, she's been dead 20 years just look at her

Am
hair

G          F# G        F# G
Strawberry blonde with curls

              C                                          Am
She gets her hair done then she gossips with the younger waitress

             Em
girls at the bar

 F# G                       C                       Am
The old Irish rose drinking strawberry wine till it comes out her nose

D                               Am
Dont spend too much time on the other side

D                Am
Let the daylight in

G                                                C             Am
Before you give up and you can't break out of it my old friend

G
Cause it's getting worse if you want any flowers

    C                              Am
You better get your seeds into the ground

    D Am          G
And I worry about you

D    Am                  G
Why? Because you want me to

G
Marty was a kid when he learned to sail boats

    C                   Am
His dad was a DJ on the radio

Am C    Em             G
He fell into a life of river boating crime

C                                         Am
Now he's the man you see in prison if you want strawberry wine

G        F# G      F# G
Strawberry wine or smokes

C                                         Am
He sent a letter to his friend explaining one night on coke

       Em                            G
He and Claire jumped right into them strawberry vines

C                               Am
Lord knows you get lost on that strawberry wine

D                                Am
Don't spend too much time on the other side

D                Am
Let the daylight in

G
This fellow downtown he jumped off a bridge

C                                                  Am
He was angry about a letter he received from his friend

Em                                         G
He jumped into the banks of San Francisco Bay

C                                Am
Picking strawberries in the clouds all day

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Cause with nothing left to lose you get screwed

C                                         Am
You sell your apartment before they make you move

Em                                        G
Then you jump straight into the arms of the most beautiful girl

C                                          Am
Who had never ever lived in the history of the world

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And with nothing left to prove you get screwed

C                                         Am
And sell your apartment before they make you move

Em                               G
Gonna jump straight into the darkened bay

C                                 Am
Picking strawberries with strawberry wine all day

D                                                 Am
So don't spend too much time on the other side

D                              A
Dont forget to let the daylight in

G                                                              C   Am
Cause before you get old you better break out of it my old friend

G
Cause it's getting better and if you want any flowers

C                                               Am
You better get your seeds into the ground

D                             Am
Cause I worry about you

D               Am                        Em
Why? Don't bother to ask me why

Am                   C              D
I'll be fine just sitting here laughing

Am        Em7 C          G Em C
Little old me and my strawberry wine

Gmaj7            Em       C
Strawberry wine

Gmaj7            Em       C
Strawberry wine