Gordon Lightfoot - Wild Strawberries Ukulele

CAPO: 4th Fret




[VERSE 1:]
C          G       F          C
If I had a dollar, if I had a cent
                  G            F               G
I would play most anywhere, if it would pay my rent 
       F             G           F           G
I'd be living on the downside in my old apartment 
        C    F     G      Em
For the rest of my days
                          F      
People always ask why the world is on the run 
Em                       F    Em
People like you and like me 


[VERSE 2:]
                           F
Is it really true, you can really never win 
G                             Am            G     F
Moving to the upside, tell me when does the fun begin 
C
Deep as the sea and as wild as the weather 
        F                C                F              G
We will go, just you and me, to pick wild strawberries together 
      C
Or be living on our own, in a cabin in a meadow
     F                                        G
Or meandering alone, we can face the world forever or we'll


[CHORUS:]
C       ~        F           G             C
Hit the bounding main, or be on a railroad train 
        ~         F           G              C
Hit the boundless tide, or be on a steamboat ride 
        ~        F           G             C
Hit the bounding main, or be on a midnight plane 
        ~        F           G            C      Em
Hit the pounding tide, or be on a rainbow ride


[VERSE 3:]
                             F                 G
People often ask me just the way it must feel 
                                     F       Em
To be standing up here with you down there 
                                    F          
Let it now be known that throughout all of these years 
G                  Am         G         F   C
I have been wearing polka dot underwear


[VERSE 4:]

Deep as the sea and as wild as the weather 
        F                 C              F             G
We will go, just wait and see, to gather crab-apples together 
       C
And be wandering along toward a cabin in the meadow 
   F                                         G
Or meandering alone, we can face the world together or we'll


[CHORUS:]
C       ~        F           G             C
Hit the bounding main, or be on a railroad train 
        ~         F           G              C
Hit the boundless tide, or be on a steamboat ride 
        ~        F           G             C
Hit the bounding main, or be on a midnight plane 
        ~        F           G            C      Em
Hit the pounding tide, or be on a rainbow ride


[INSTRUMENTAL:] G  C  G  C  G  C  G  C  G  C  G  C  Em


[VERSE 5:]
                          F 
People always ask why the world is on the slide 
Em                       F    Em
People like you and like me 
                                F
Is it really true there will be no place left to hide 
G                     Am             G     F   C
Turning to the upside, when does the fun begin


[VERSE 6:]

Deep as the sea and as wild as the weather 
         F                C                F              G
We might go, just you and me, to pick wild strawberries together 
      C
Or be living on our own, in a cabin in a meadow
        F
And the cows will come home 
                           G
They can face the world forever and we'll 


[CHORUS:]
C       ~        F           G             C
Hit the bounding main, or be on a railroad train 
        ~         F           G              C
Hit the boundless tide, or be on a steamboat ride 
        ~        F           G             C
Hit the bounding main, or be on a midnight plane 
        ~        F           G            C 
Hit the pounding tide, or be on a rainbow ride
        ~        F           G            C 
Hit the bounding main or be on a midnight plane


[OUTRO:] C ~ F  G  C