Summertime Dream Chords
Summertime Dream by Gordon Lightfoot is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, A, G and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
D A
Where the road runs down by the butternut grove
D G
To old bill skinners stream
D G
Do tell at the noonday bell
A D
Its time for a summertime dream
In a lunch pail town in a one horse way
You can live like a king and queen
Lets steal away in the noonday sun
Its time for a summertime dream
Bm D
Birds in all creation will be twitterin in the trees
Bm
And down belows a pond I know
G A
You can swim in it if you please
D A
And if you come round when the mill shuts down
D G
You can see what chivalry means
D G
Lets steal away in the noonday sun
A D
Its time for a summertime dream
(Instrumental: D A D G D G A D)
Bm
On a trip on down to wonderland
D
In love among the flowers
Bm
Where time gets lost with no straw boss
G A
Tallyin up the hours
Where the road runs down by the butternut grove
To old bill skinners stream
Do tell at the noonday bell
Its time for a summertime dream
(Instrumental, same as above)
Birds in all creation will be twitterin in the trees
And down belows a pond I know
You can swim in it if you please
And if you come round when the mill shuts down
You can see what chivalry means
Lets steal away in the noonday sun
Its time for a summertime dream
(Repeat instrumental 2x to end on D)