Strawberry wine
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F
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1. He was working through
college on my grandpa's farm,
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I was thirstin’
for knowledge, and he had a car.
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F
Yeah, and I was caught
somewhere between a woman and a child,
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one
restless summer we found love growing wild,
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on
the banks of the river on a well beaten path,
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funny
how those memories, they last, like ...
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Strawberry wine, seventeen,
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the hot July moon saw everything.
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My first taste of love was bittersweet,
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like green on the vine, like strawberry wine. + F
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2. I still remember when thirty was old,
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my
biggest fear was September when
he had to go.
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A few cards and letters and
one long distance call,
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we
drifted away like the leaves in the fall,
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but
year after year I come back to this place,
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just
to remember the taste of .... + CHORUS
Dm
+ The fields have grown
over now,
Dm
years
since they've seen the plow,
Dm
there's
nothing time hasn't touched.
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Was it really him or the loss
of my innocence
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I’ve been missing so much ? Yea.....h ! + G - Am - F
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Strawberry wine, seventeen,
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the hot July moon saw everything.
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My first taste of love was bittersweet,
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like green on the vine.
C G
Like strawberry wine, seventeen,
Am F
the hot July moon saw everything.
C G
My first taste of love was bittersweet,
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like green on the vine, like strawberry wine.
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G - Am F
+ Strawberry wine. Oh !
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Strawberry wine.
(orig. = capo 1st; midi = no capo) (Deana
Carter)