Hawksley Workman – Battlefords chords

G    Am     C     G

G                           AmAnother summer wasted in the Battlefords
       C                      Gon a banana seat bike with a hockey card in the spokes
G                                                        Ama friend of ours who's stopped his car by said that "he better get home"
                              C                               Ghe said "you're gonna get a beating.  You're going to get the beating of your life"

Em              D          CNutrasweeth and Fresca and popshoppe
                           EM          Amand all the best of what a baby sitter could afford
     Em                         Cwith enough negotiotiaion and a freckled smile

 G                             AmAnother summer wasted in the Battlefords
                Cour dust coated freezie stained lips
     Gand lawn darts in the yard

GAnd the rickedst guy in town drives his new
                         AmLincoln drunk on the old dusty streets
             C                     Gbalancing a snifter of gin on the edge of his knee

Em          D              CRocky road, tiger tail and bubble gum and all the rest of them
                   Am                            Em                  Cthat a baby sitter could afford with the right negotiotiaion and a freckled smile

    G                                   BmThey say that wealth is revealed in the teeth
                             Cthat's we're all wearing braces
             G            Am            Cand dirty fingernails that a good akela wouldn't approve of

G                              BmNot another broken arm in the heat
                                           Che fell bringing pop and chips home one handed
               Gwe weren't invincible
Am                         Cand the sensei said "he'll sit out the summer"

 G                                 AmAnother summer wasted in the Battlefords
               CDad shakes his head at the car that's been
Gsitting on blocks for years
Gand the weird kid who smoked two cigarettes playing bingo
         Amthen his Mom came to the rescue
                  Cshe stood up and chided everyone with her finger outstretched
        Gsaying "you're not the boss of him"

Em         D             CRing pops, banana runts, popeye cigarettes
                                              Amand everything that's best that a baby sitter could afford
          Em                      Cwith the right negotiation and a freckled smile

G                                        BmThey say that wealth is revealed in the teeth
                              Cthat's we're all wearing braces
           G             Am              Cand dirty fingernails that a good akela wouldn't approve of

G                             BmNot another broken arm in the heat
                                           Che fell bringing pop and chips home one handed
               Gwe weren't invincible
Am                          Cand the sensei said "he'll sit out the summer"

Em                            D                             CNobody really asked for this, nobody really asked for this, nobodody really asked for this
Am                            GNobody really asked for this, Nobody really asked fot this
Cthe sensei said "he'll sit out the summer"

Em                            D                             CNobody really asked for this, nobody really asked for this, nobodody really asked for this
Am                            GNobody really asked for this, Nobody really asked fot this
Cthe sensei said "he'll sit out the summer"

G                                        AmAnother summer wasted here, in the Battlefords
            C                 GMom says to go get ouside and don't come back till it's dark

G                                        BmThey say that wealth is revealed in the teeth
                              Cthat's we're all wearing braces
           G             Am              Cand dirty fingernails that a good akela wouldn't approve of

G                             BmNot another broken arm in the heat
                                         Che fell bringing pop and chips home one handed
                G            Amwe weren't invincible
                           C                  Gand the sensei said "he'll sit out the summer"