Summer Of Drugs
Soul Asylum • Key:
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Summer Of Drugs
Soul Asylum
#From: Denis Jacob <edj1234@umoncton.ca>
#on the Victoria Williams benefit album "Sweet Relief"
Intro:
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Sister got bit by a copperhead snake in the
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woods be
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hind the
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house
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And nobody was home so I grabbed her foot and I
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sucked that
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poison
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out
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Sister got better in a month or two when the swelling it went down
But
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I started off my teenage years with a
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poison
B
in my
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mouth
Chorus:
Chorus
And we were
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too young to be
E
hippies
A
missed out on
E
love
A
Return to our teen in the
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late seventies in a
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summer
B
of the
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drugs
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Mommy and Daddy could never understand that
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life was
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never
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cold
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Their idea of a rollicking town was a
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kitchen
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tap ap
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pall
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Acid, grass, downs and speed, junked us days were made of
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How could they suspect those kids where the
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monsters
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eat their
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makers
Chorus:
And they were
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too young to be
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hippies
A
missed out on
E
love
We
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learned from the teens of the
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late seventies in a
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Summer
B
of the
E
drugs
F#
Boys and girls in
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every town
F#
Sandman spread his
C#
sand around
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Now we are just
B
waking up from a
D
summer
C#
of
B
drugs
Hey
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hey (hey hey), woh
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woh (woh woh), uh-
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huh (uh-huh)
Hey
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yeah (hey yeah), hey
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hey (hey hey), woh
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woh (woh woh)
Oh
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yeah
B
yeah
A
yeah
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Mommies and Daddies are too shy to talk
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about those
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birds and
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bees
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Integrated schools had stopped,
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facts of
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life pl
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ease
A
Girls and boys went away came back, empty after weekend
The
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talk on the phone consisted of a
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hush,
B
voices sp
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eaking
Chorus:
And they were
A
too young to be
E
hippies
A
missed out on
E
love
Re
A
turn to our teen in the
E
late seventies in a
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summer
B
of the
E
drugs
And they were
A
too young (
E
too young)
And they were
A
too fast (
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too fast)
A
E
Oh, the
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summer
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of
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drugs
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E
A
E
A
E
A
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Speed