Summer Wages By Ian Tyson Intro C F C G C

Never hit ^Cseventeen When you play ag^Fainst the dealer You know^C that the odds Won't ride with you ^G Never le^Cave your woman alone With your friend^Fs around to steal her She'll be gamble^Cd and gone Like summer wages ^G

And we'll keep rollin on Till we get to Vancouver And the lady that I love Shes living there Its been six long months And more since I've seen her Maybe she's gambled and gone Like summer wages (Chorus)G In all the beer parlors

All down^F along Main Stee^Ct The drea^Cms of the season Are spil^Fled down on the floor ^G All the big^G stands of timber Wa^Fit there just for fallin'^C The hook^Cers stand watchfully Waiti^Fn by the door ^G

I'm going to work on them towboats With my slippery city shoes Lord I swore I would never do that again Through the great fog bound straights Where the cedars stand waitin I'll be lost and gone Like summer wages (Break - fiddle same as verse) (Chorus) Never hit seventeen When you play against the dealer You know that the odds Won't ride with you Never leave your woman alone With your friends around to steal her She'll be gambled and gone Like summer wages

^FAnd the years are gambled a^Cnd lost Like summer wages ^G ^C ^G ^C

Ian Tyson - Summer wages