Summer in the City

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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:49:38 -0500

From: Andrew Rogers <rogers@hi.com>

Subject: ./l/lovin_spoonful/summer_in_the_city.crd

"Summer in the City"

(John Sebastian - Mark Sebastian - Steve Boone)

Intro:

organ and electric piano arr. for guitar [3X]

v v v v

^ echoed drums

bass (note intentional G-Ab dissonance on the first beat):

v v v v

Verse 1:

[Notes: 1) I believe that the guitar is capoed at the third fret,

in which case the chord progression transposes to the stock folkie

riff Am-Am/G-D9/F#-Fmaj7-E. This is further confirmed by the

voicings of the F and Bb chords in the chorus, which sound like

root-position D and G capoed up. 2) The electric piano plays a

variation of the second part of the instrumental break (q.v.) on

the first four lines of the verse.]

Cm Cm/Bb

Hot town, summer in the city

F9/A [x03543] Abmaj7 G

Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty

Cm Cm/Bb

Been down, isn't it a pity

F9/A Abmaj7 G

Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city

G G7/B

All around, people looking half dead

Cm C

Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head

Chorus (w/autoharp):

F Bb

But at night it's a different world

F Bb

Go out and find a girl

F Bb

Come-on come-on and dance all night

F Bb

Despite the heat it'll be alright

Dm G

And babe, don't you know it's a pity

Dm G

That the days can't be like the nights

Dm G

In the summer, in the city

Dm G

In the summer, in the city

Verse 2:

Cool town, evening in the city

Dressing so fine and looking so pretty

Cool cat, looking for a kitty

Gonna look in every corner of the city

Till I'm wheezing like a bus stop

Running up the stairs, gonna meet you on the rooftop

repeat chorus

Instrumental break:

guitar (doubled octave higher w/electric piano) w/sound effects

Cm Ab7

v v v v v v v v

	-----------------|------------------|
	-----------------|------------------|
	-----------------|------------------|
	-5--3-3-5-3---3--|-6--4-4-6-4---4---|
	-----6------6----|-----6------6-----|
	-----------------|------------------|

organ:

C (octaves; hold through next section)

/ / / /

Wurlitzer electric piano arr. for two guitars [2X]

(Cm) (/Bb) (/A) (/Ab)(Gsus4)

v v v v v v v v

	15----15----1515--15-----|1515--15----1515-15--15--|
	16----16----1516--16-----|1516--16----1615-15--15--|
	17----17----1717--17-----|1717--17----1717-17--17--|
	-------------------------|-------------------------|
	-------------------------|-------------------------|

guitar 3 (2nd time only): Abmaj7 G

v v v v v v v v

	-------------------------|-------------------------|
	-------------------------|-------------------------|
	-------------------------|-------------------------|
	10-10----10--8-------8---|-7--------7--6--------5--|
	-------------------------|-------------------------|
	-8--8-----8--6-------6---|-5--------5--4--------3--|

2: ^^ 1: ^^