TWO GALLANTS ?? LONG SUMMER DAY The song is played with capo on 2nd fret. IMPORTANT: - B is played like this (6th to 1st string): x214xx - E6 is a normal E major actually, but you have to add some pull-offs from the 2nd fret on the B string. Like this: e ------0-------| B --------2p0---| G ------------1-| D --2-----------| A --------------| E 0---0---------| E B E6 Well, the summer day make a white man lazy ABE6 A E Well, all I've ever known is poor F#m E Owe my skin to the country store F#m E Don??t own my walls, my roof, my door B But he tells me I'm free A E But I fight the will to live F#m E Hell might take but heaven gives F#m E It's the only one so I'll forgive B And Im not the one to grieve E B E6 And the summer day make a white man lazy E B E6 He sits on his porch killing time A E A I gotta work to feed my wife and baby E B E I work so god damn hard that it's a crime A E Well, I went down to the polling place F#m E The white men there just laughed in my face F#m E Saying boy, this ain??t no nigger's race B You best get on your way A E Sir, I believe I've got the right F#m E Said you ain??t got nothing if you ain??t white F#m E And I thought I said get out of sight B Well, what was I to say? E B E6 And the summer day make a white man lazy E B E6 He sits on his porch killing time A E A I gotta work to feed my wife and baby E B E I work so god damn hard that it's a crime A E When I was 'bout the age of five F#m E Watched my daddy burned alive F#m E They cut him low and they hung him high B Swayin' in the breeze A E The last words I heard him say F#m E Before they stole his life that day F#m E Was forgive them lord, they've gone astray B Now take me to my knees E B E6 And the summer day make a white man lazy E B E6 He sits on his porch killing time Bm F#m A E But the summer day make a nigger feel crazy Bm F#m E B Might make me do something out of line Intermezzo: ABE EBE BFAE BFEB A E Well, I don??t know but I heard tell F#m E Of a furnace below a place called hell F#m E And who would catch me if I fell? B Who would pray for me? A E But one thing I see for sure F#m E It's hot as hell up here I know F#m E And the devil lives right down the road B It's all the same to me A B E And the summer day make a white man lazy E B E6 He sits on his porch killing time Bm F#m A E But the summer day make a nigger feel crazy Bm F#m E B Might make me do something out of line (all in barre chords) C#m A But if you should see my wife E B Tell her that I won??t be home tonight C#m A So don??t leave on the light E A I got a little business down the road C#m A And If I'm dead by sunrise E B Kiss my baby girl for me E A It ain??t life if it ain??t free C#m B E6 I got a mighty burden to unload