Summer In The City

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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:49:38 -0500
From: Andrew Rogers
Subject: ./l/lovin_spoonful/*

                          "Summer in the City"

Intro:

        organ and electric piano arr. for guitar [3X]
         v   v   v   v
        -----------------| 
        -----------------| 
        -------------x---| 
        -6-------5-------| 
        -----------------| 
        -4-------3-------| 
                     ^ echoed drums

        bass (note intentional G-Ab dissonance on the first beat):
         v   v   v   v
        -----------------| 
        -5-------5-------| 
        -----------------| 
        -----------------| 

Verse 1:

        [Notes: 1) I believe that the guitar is capoed at the third fret,
         in which case the chord progression transposes to the stock folkie
         riff Am-Am/G-D9/F#-Fmaj7-E.  This is further confirmed by the
         voicings of the F and Bb chords in the chorus, which sound like
         root-position D and G capoed up.  2) The electric piano plays a
         variation of the second part of the instrumental break (q.v.) on
         the first four lines of the verse.]

        Cm        Cm/Bb
        Hot town, summer in the city
        F9/A [x03543]           Abmaj7        G
        Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
        Cm         Cm/Bb
        Been down, isn't it a pity
        F9/A                 Abmaj7          G
        Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city

         G          G7/B
        All around, people looking half dead
         Cm                       C
        Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head

Chorus (w/autoharp):

        F                   Bb
        But at night it's a different world
        F          Bb
        Go out and find a girl
        F                   Bb
        Come-on come-on and dance all night
        F                      Bb
        Despite the heat it'll be alright

            Dm               G
        And babe, don't you know it's a pity
                 Dm         G
        That the days can't be like the nights
               Dm              G
        In the summer, in the city
               Dm              G
        In the summer, in the city

Verse 2:

        Cool town, evening in the city
        Dressing so fine and looking so pretty
        Cool cat, looking for a kitty
        Gonna look in every corner of the city
        Till I'm wheezing like a bus stop
        Running up the stairs, gonna meet you on the rooftop

[repeat chorus]

Instrumental break:

        guitar (doubled octave higher w/electric piano) w/sound effects

         Cm               Ab7
         v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v

        organ:

        C (octaves; hold through next section)
        / / / /

        Wurlitzer electric piano arr. for two guitars [2X]

        (Cm)       (/Bb)         (/A)        (/Ab)(Gsus4)
         v     v     v     v       v     v     v     v

                   guitar 3 (2nd time only): Abmaj7  G
         v     v     v     v       v     v     v     v

        2: ^^  1: ^^

[repeat first verse and chorus]

[repeat instrumental break]

[repeat first verse and chorus w/o vocals; fade]

-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers