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Strawberry Blonde  - Ron Sexsmith
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Transcribed by John Kean & Glenn Pearson.

Capo 2nd fret.

INTRO:(pick melody out from within a G chord)
GG Piano Chord 
                      GG Piano Chord 

4/4 , . , . , . ,   .      , . , . , . ,   .
||---------------------|-----------------------||
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||*-------0---------0--|-0h2---0--------------*||
||*-----------0-0h2----|-----------0-------0--*||
||---------------------|---------------0h2-----||
||--3------------------|-----------------------||

VERSE 1:
AmAm Piano Chord 
               DD Piano Chord 

She was not the girl next door
GG Piano Chord 
                    CC Piano Chord 

But the girl from 'round the corner
AmAm Piano Chord 
                 DD Piano Chord 

S'at the tail end of grade four
GG Piano Chord 
                  CC Piano Chord 

When she came to school one morning
CC Piano Chord 
               DD Piano Chord 
      GG Piano Chord 
       G/F#G/F# Piano Chord 
     EmEm Piano Chord 

All eyes were upon her as she took her seat
CC Piano Chord 
              DD Piano Chord 
     GG Piano Chord 
            G/F#G/F# Piano Chord 
    EmEm Piano Chord 

Her name was Amanda, with pretty eyes of green
CC Piano Chord 
     DD Piano Chord 
            GG Piano Chord 

And hair of blonde, strawberry blonde

VERSE 2:
Springtime and dandelions
And summer 'round the corner
At the tail end of age nine
With a million dreams before her
She lived with her mother in an old decrepit house
If there was trouble at home she kept it to herself
All summer long, the strawberry blonde

CHORUS 1:
EmEm Piano Chord 
          BmBm Piano Chord 
  CC Piano Chord 
             GG Piano Chord 

And by her face there was no way to tell
CC Piano Chord 
               GG Piano Chord 
           DD Piano Chord 
             B7B7 Piano Chord 

It seemed like all was well in her world
EmEm Piano Chord 
                  BmBm Piano Chord 
  CC Piano Chord 
              GG Piano Chord 

But the neighbours said her mother had lost her will
CC Piano Chord 
           GG Piano Chord 

To gin and sleeping pills
DD Piano Chord 
                        GG Piano Chord 

It was no life for a little girl

SOLO: (pick melody out from within chords)
Am7Am7 Piano Chord 
               DD Piano Chord 
                 GG Piano Chord 

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||--------3---------|-2h3-2-0---------|-----------------|
||--1---------------|-------------0h1-|-3-------0h1-3---|
||*-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||*-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|

1.----------------. 2.----------------
CC Piano Chord 
                   CC Piano Chord 
       B7B7 Piano Chord 

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|-0---------------*||-0---------------||
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CHORUS 2:
Still I see her face framed in blue sky
At the top of a slide coming down
And when the sirens wailed her mother had failed to rise
All the neighbours stood outside
As Amanda just stared at the ground

VERSE 3:
Time flies and years are piled
I'd forgotten all about her
When I saw her down the aisle
Of a streetcar with her daughter
Then I heard Amanda say as she got up
"C'mon Samantha, girl this is our stop"
CC Piano Chord 
    DD Piano Chord 
   CC Piano Chord 

And they were gone,
DD Piano Chord 
               GG Piano Chord 
    Gadd2Gadd2 Piano Chord 
 GG Piano Chord 

Two strawberry blondes

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John Kean
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