this song is played live with a capo on 2 however this tab is written to be played without a capo.
Intro: Just play F# C#7 G#m7 in different orders
Well, the summer day make a white man lazy
Well, all I've ever known is poor
Owe my skin to the country store
Dont own my walls, my roof, my door
But he tells me I'm free
But I fight the will to live
Hell might take but heaven gives
It's the only one so I'll forgive
And Im not the one to grieve
And the summer day make a white man lazy
He sits on his porch killing time
I gotta work to feed my wife and baby
I work so god damn hard that it's a crime
Well, I went down to the polling place
The white men there just laughed in my face
Saying boy, this aint no nigger's race
You best get on your way
Sir, I believe I've got the right
Said you aint got nothing if you aint white
And I thought I said get out of sight
Well, what was I to say?
And the summer day make a white man lazy
He sits on his porch killing time
I gotta work to feed my wife and baby
I work so god damn hard that it's a crime
When I was 'bout the age of five
Watched my daddy burned alive
They cut him low and they hung him high
Swayin' in the breeze
The last words I heard him say
Before they stole his life that day
Was forgive them lord, they've gone astray
Now take me to my knees
And the summer day make a white man lazy
He sits on his porch killing time
But the summer day make a nigger feel crazy
Might make me do something out of line
Solo (figure it out. Same chords...)
Well, I dont know but I heard tell
Of a furnace below a place called hell
And who would catch me if I fell?
Who would pray for me?
But one thing I see for sure
It's hot as hell up here I know
And the devil lives right down the road
It's all the same to me
And the summer day make a white man lazy
He sits on his porch killing time
But the summer day make a nigger feel crazy
Might make me do something out of line
( barre shape)
But if you should see my wife
Tell her that I wont be home tonight
( barre shape)
So dont leave on the light
I got a little buisness down the road
( barre)
And If I'm dead by sunrise
Kiss my baby girl for me
( barre)
It aint life if it aint free
I got a mighty burden to unload
Outro: Verse Chords + some others.. idk.