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Sons Of Summer Tab

by Carly Simon


Sons Of Summer - from Playing Possum 1975


It makes me smile
                      
To think of what we dreamed of

Where are those sons of summer now
With their wild-haired women in their
patchwork gowns
      
Who could laugh the lights away
                            
Nights on the beach and bay



    
The course on farms
 
And the course in the bar
                    
Sweet smokin' in the back of the car
                                                 
Always the first time shines to last like a morning star
              
Like a morning star

                                            
It's been a while since the last time we were dancing
 
Where are those sons of summer now
With their long-limbed ladies who all knew how
      
To chase the blues away
               
I've got the blues today



                            
Your ivy days and your clubhouse ways
                         
Wine mug nights when the music played
                                                
Love that is real will not fade away like a morning star
                     
Like a morning star 

 


Where are those sons of summer now
The winter has come
                            
And you don't know how to turn your
Dreams into coal
                  
Your books won't hold you



          
The woods get cold
        
And I feel too old
                              
I begin to questioning your schoolboy soul
                        
Clever remarks that once won my heart
           
When the fire won't light
            
Will they lose their spark
                                       
And I can't help but get a little bit blue
                                             
Thinking about the precious nothing we once knew