G                    C
I bought you a book on birds in San Francisco
       G                       C
From a couple of older hippies of the bay

D           C9
It was late July
D           C9
Their summer of love
      D            C9       G
Was a winter in La Plata and Hobart

                G
Punchline for a joke
                      C
“We melt apart in the snow, man!”
        G                                     C
But had I been there, this wouldn’t change at all

                               D
‘Cause I was watching from the sides
             C9 (Riff)
Now I’m just trynna figure out
   D                                          
If I had good memory then why would 
          C      G
I write this all down?

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E|------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------|
G|------------7~----------------------------|
D|--5h7h9-7p5-------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------|

         G
It was a long hot summer
     C
In a late December party
        G                           D
And you had a bunch of friends over from school
     G
Your grandma was there too
    C
She gave us cake, then she pushed us in the pool
    G                         D
The taste of vegan appetisers lingered on

G                           C
You told your mother that I played guitar
G                             C
But I never had the chance to prove it because your
D                               C  G
Sister’s boyfriend was needing CPR