Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 09:22:39 +1000
From: Mark Ord <ord@yallara.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>
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Subject: Idiot Summer TAB
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ARTIST:Gin Blossoms
TITLE:Idiot Summer (4:10)
      appearing on the 'Follow You Down' Single. Track #4.
WRITTEN BY:Robin Wilson
TRANSCRIBED BY:Mark Ord  (29/4/96)


C (w/Fig. 1)
(w/Riff A)
G             C
I walked home to the sun
F               G
I couldn't ride another one
G               C               F      G
I thought a lot along the lines
G                    C
And I've been fooled about all night
F           G 
Wiped clean always by midnight
G                 C            F       G
Wasn't it like an idiot summer
G                 C            F       G
Wasn't it like an idiot summer
W/Riff A. (slightly different)
C
G                 C
Three, four peaks all I could see
F                     G
In the morning it's a hundred and ten degrees
G              C              F        G            
But I like the goddamn heat
G           C
I lie awake half the night
F                   G
Autumn is coming it seems like it's in sight
G                   C           F      G
All the autumn that you can see
G                   C           F      G
All the autumn that you can see
C (w/Fig. 1)                 G     C G  C G  C G
It's growing darker like the trees
C                           G
But if all the trees should fall
                                    C G  C G  C G
All the bugs would crawl in my sleep
C (w/Fig. 1)
(And then we're out of work)

SOLO:
G - C - F - G
G - C - F - G
G - C - F - G
G - C - F - G

It's growing darker like the trees
But if all the trees should fall
All the bugs would crawl in my sleep
There's no telling I was so confused
I try but I can't help you choose
Tucson is so far away
I lie awake half the night
Autumn is coming it seems like it's in sight
Wasn't it like an idiot summer...

  Fig.1                      Riff A.                  full     half
|-0--0-----0---0-0--0-----0-|-----------------------------------------|
|-1----1-----1-1-1----1-----|-------------------------^---------^-----|
|-0------0-----0-0------0---|-----------------5-3-----3------5--3-----|
|-2------------2-2----------|-3h5-3h5-3h5-3h5-----5-3-----------------|
|-3------------3-3----------|-----------------------------------------|
|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------|

|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------3----5--3-----3-----------------------------------------|
|-------3---5------------5-----5-3------------------------------------|
|-5 3-5----------------------------5-3--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------5-3----------------------------|
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|So remember when those doors swing open |                        Mark Ord
|And and all the drinks are passed around|            Melbourne, Australia
|Anytime the pickins look to easy...     | 
|Hold me down                            | e-mail:ord@yallara.cs.rmit.EDU.AU
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