Key: G
Introduction:
G
I went to work for her that summer
Em
A teenage kid so far from home
C
She was a lonely widow woman
D
Hell-bent to make it on her own
G
We were a thousand miles from nowhere
Em
Wheat fields as far as I could see
C
Both needing something from each other
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Not knowing yet what that might be
'Til she came to me one evening
G D C
She had a need to feel the thun-der
G
To chase the lightning from the skies
C
To watch a storm with all its wonder
D
Written in her lover's eyes
Em D C
She had to ride the heat of passion
G
Like a comet burning bright
C
Rushing headlong in the wind
D
Now where only dreams have been
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Burning both ends of the night
That summer wind was all around me
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I often think about that summer
The sweat, the moonlight and the lace