Key: G
Introduction:
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Last night the street collapsed on itself
C C/B Am
In fact it broke right in two
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And I fell in strawberry vines
C Am
Into a pool of strawberry wine
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Strawberry wine inclines
C C/B Am
Burning in the desert surrounded by fires
Em D/F# G
but the stems break beyond more than the morning calls
C C/B Am
Till its all just the same thing again oh god
D Am
Dont spend too much time on the other side
D Am
Let the daylight in
G C Am
Before you give up and you cant break out of it my old friend
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Cause its getting worse if you want any flowers
C C/B Am
You better get your seeds into the ground
D Am G G4 G
And I worry about you
D Am G C G
Why? Because you want me to
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Can you still have any famous last words
C Am
If youre somebody nobody knows
Em
I don't know
G C
Somebody go and ask Claire, she's been dead 20 years just look at her
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hair
G F#
Strawberry blonde with curls
C Am
She gets her hair done then she gossips with the younger waitress
Em
girls at the bar
F# C Am
The old irish rose drinking strawberry wine till it comes out her
nose
D Am
Dont spend too much time on the other side
D Am
Let the daylight in
G C Am
Before you give up and you cant break out of it my old friend
G
Cause its getting worse if you want any flowers
C Am
You better get your seeds into the ground
D Am G
And I worry about you
D Am G
Why? Because you want me to
G
Marty was a kid when he learned to sail boats
C Am
His dad was a DJ on the radio
Em G
He fell into a life of river boating crime
C Am
Now he's the man you see in prison if you want strawberry wine
G F#
Strawberry wine or smokes
C Am
He sent a letter to his friend explaining one night on coke
Em G
He and Claire jumped right into them strawberry vines
C Am
Lord knows you get lost on that strawberry wine
D Am
Dont spend too much time on the other side
D Am
Let the daylight in
G
This fellow downtown he jumped off a bridge
C Am
He was angry about a letter he received from his friend
Em G
He jumped into the banks of San Francisco Bay
C Am
Picking strawberries in the clouds all day
G F#
Cause with nothing left to lose you get screwed
C Am
You sell your apartment before they make you move
Em G
Then you jump straight into the arms of the most beautiful girl
C Am
Who had never ever lived in the history of the world
G F#
And with nothing left to prove you get screwed
C Am
And sell your apartment before they make you move
Em G
Gonna jump straight into the darkened bay
C Am
Picking strawberries with strawberry wine all day
D Am
So don't spend too much time on the other side
D A
Dont forget to let the daylight in
G C Am
Cause before you get old you better break out of it my old friend
G
Cause its getting better and if you want any flowers
C Am
You better get your seeds into the ground
D Am
Cause I worry about you
D Am Em
Why? Dont bother to ask me why
Am C D
I'll be fine just sitting here laughing
Am Em7 G Em
Little old me and my strawberry wine
G7+ Em C
Strawberry wine
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Strawberry wine