Steven Hull's Ozark Mountain Daredevils Site presents:  

No One Would Believe A Summer Could Be So Cold

(Paul Kennerley)
White Mansions, 1978

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Chords, Guitar Tablature & Lyrics
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I'm going to show you the chords and a couple of tips - you can take it from there. Be sure to visit my tab page in order to understand how I write tablature on the web.

Click here if you want only the lyrics.

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G A C7 G
G A C7 G

(THUNDERSTORM & MUSICAL INTRO)

G A
I've needed you from time to time

C7 G
but never as much as now

G A
I've grabbed some love from the whores in town

C7 G
but it don't satisfy somehow

G A
I still got the letter you sent last summer

C7 G
when I fell at Mechanicsville

G A
I guess you don't know when you'll see me again

C7 G
of if you ever will
 


D C G
it ain't easy, this living off the land

D C G
it ain't easy, oh how I need your hand

C G A C7 G
to hold - God, no one'd believe a summer could be so damn cold
 
 


G A
you may've heard of the cost of the Gettysburg loss

C7 G
well I was there with Lee

G A
and since Vicksburg's gone, it won't take 'em long

C7 G
to capture Tennessee

G A
sometimes I wonder if we're doing right

C7 G
and if we're going to win this war

G A
I start to forget just why we're here

C7 G
and what we're fighting for
 


D C G
it ain't easy, living off the land

D C G
it ain't easy, oh how I need your hand

C G A C7 G
to hold - God, no one'd believe a summer could be so damn cold
 


D G D G
Sweet Polly, I've tried to get back to you

D G C
to be by your side - but I can't leave now

D G
Grant's army's pushing through
 


A Bm E A
A Bm D E
A D
(PIANO & THUNDER)
 


G A
they tell you stories of valour and glory

C7 G
but they ain't near the fact

G A
heroes look bad when all they had

C7 G
bin eaten by the worms and rats

G A
I hear dying men calling with gangrene crawling

C7 G
through their flesh and bones

G A
I've seen thousands pleading as they lie bleeding

C7 G
ain't it time to go back home
 


D C G
it ain't easy, this living off the land

D C G
it ain't easy, oh how I need your hand

C G A C7 G
to hold - God, no one'd believe a summer could be so damn cold


G A C7 G D G

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TIPS:

When you see the G, A, C7, and G chords, you could play the following part to sound like the piano:

      G   A   C7  C6  C   C6   G
1-|| ------------------------------
2-|| -0---2---1---1---1---1----0---
3-|| -0---2---3---2---0---2----0---
4-|| -0---2---2---2---2---2----0---
5-|| -2---0---3---3---3---3----2---
6-|| -3------------------------3---

If you play the C7 chord like this (fingers left, frets right):

      C7
1-|| -----0-----|--0--
2-|| -----1-----|--1--
3-|| -----4-----|--3--
4-|| -----2-----|--2--
5-|| -----3-----|--3--
6-|| -----------|-----

it makes is easier to play the C6 chord like this (fingers left, frets right):

      C6
1-|| -----0-----|--0--
2-|| -----1-----|--1--
3-|| -----2-----|--2--
4-|| -----2-----|--2--
5-|| -----3-----|--3--
6-|| -----------|-----

the key is to use your second finger to press two strings.

 

When you see this:

         D     C              G
it ain't easy, living off the land

The D chord goes between a D and a Dsus4:

  D Dsus4 D
1-|| -2----3----2----
2-|| -3----3----3----
3-|| -2----2----2----
4-|| -0----0----0----
5-|| ----------------
6-|| ----------------

To get to the Dsus4, play a D chord and put your pinkie on the 1st string, 3rd fret.

 

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I hope you enjoyed playing this piece.

Remember, that by learning this song, you are helping to preserve the
music of Paul Kennerley and the White Mansions album!

Thanks for stopping by - steve

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Lyrics & Music: Paul Kennerley
Copyright 1978 Randor Music (London) Ltd.
Controlled in the U.S. & Canada by Irving Music, Inc. (BMI)
chords & music interpreted by Steven Hull
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Created 29 January 2003
Updated 29 January 2003

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