Scotty McCreery – Out Of Summertime (Guitar)

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: Kahsm I'm by no means great at tabbing by ear, and this would be the first ever that I post, but this song didn't seem to exist yet and this version worked out for me in impressing a girl who, for some reason, adores Scottie. So I hope someone else might be able to use it too. Use a fast country feeling picking pattern through the verse to get that banjo feel, with a few hammer-ons here and there. I kinda like 5 3 4 2 as a base pattern, but I vary _a lot_ through the song. It should be quite brisk, I get through that 4 times between "Duquoin" to "fair". Actually I just tried it and it's more like... | 5 R 3 2 | h> 4 3 2 | 5 34 [1'3' 2] or [2'4' 3] | very light tap on transitional ' '-ed strings between beats "34" is half notes, hit string 3 then 4 twice as quickly than in the other measures Anyway, just trying to give you an idea of how I try to get the right feel given these chords which may be horribly wrong. Good Luck!
         C
It's the Duquoin, Illinois county fair

                                      F           C
I could still see you standing there   like a dream
Flatbed stage on a little dirt track She was second row, her hair pulled back
         F           C
We were   young and free
G [hit 6th string string once then strum down on "Oh" similar for the F everytime this part happens] Oh, she could've been mine
    F (let ring)              C
But we ran out of summertiiiiiime

        C
Spent a few weeks out on a lake shore beach

                                         F                 C
Carved our names high as we could reach   on an old wooden pier
We made plans we planned to keep
                                  F         C
300 miles from her to me and her   senior year

G
Oh, she could've been mine
F (let ring, then build to chorous with single strums) But we ran out of summertime C [half strum half pick to ge a full sound without losing the twangy feel] And of all the things I let get away
                                      F     C
She's the one that keeps me awake at night
And I've never seen days go by so fast A little more sand falling through the glass
        F                           C
She was hot as July and sweet as sunshine

G
Oh, she could've been mine

    F                        C
But we ran out of summertiiiiiime

       C
If the days had only stayed that long

                                             F
And those autumn leaves didn't have to fall

                      C
Oh, we'd have fell in love
'Cause what we felt on that Ferris wheel
                                       F
Was just too right and just too real

                    C
But just not long enough

G
Oh, she could've been mine
F [let ring, then build to chorous with single strums] But we ran out of summertime
       C
And of all the things I let get away

                                     F       C
She's the one that keeps me awake at night
And I've never seen days go by so fast A little more sand falling through the glass
        F                        C
She was hot as July, sweet as sunshine

G
Oh, she could've been mine

    F                       C
But we ran out of summertiiiiime
C [very clean picking for this section] And of all the things I let get away
                                     F      C
She's the one that keeps me awake at night
And I've never seen days go by so fast A little more sand falling through the glass
      F                    C
               sweet as sunshine
C [back to half and half] And of all the things I let get away
                                     F      C
She's the one that keeps me awake at night
And I've never seen days go by so fast A little more sand falling through the glass
        F                        C
She was hot as July, sweet as sunshine

G
Oh, she could've been mine

    F
But we ran out of summertime
C -Kahsm