WILD STRAWBERRIES
(Gordon Lightfoot)

As recorded Gordon Lightfoot


If I had a dollar, if I had a cent 
I would play most anywhere, if it would pay my rent 
I'd be living on the downside in my old apartment 
For the rest of my days.

People always ask why the world is on the run 
People like you and like me 
Is it really true you can really never win 
Moving to the upside, tell me when does the fun begin.
 
Deep as the sea and as wild as the weather 
We will go just you and me to pick wild strawberries together 
Or be livin' on our own in a cabin in a meadow 
Or meandering alone we can face the world forever or we'll
Hit the bounding main or be on a railroad train 
Hit the boundless tide or be on a steamboat ride 
Hit the bounding main or be on a midnight plane 
Hit the pounding tide or be on a rainbow ride.

People often ask me just the way it must feel 
To be standing up here with you down there 
Let it now be known that throughout all of these years 
I have been wearing polka dot underwear.

Deep as the sea and as wild as the weather 
We will go just wait and see to gather crabapples together 
And be wandering along toward a cabin in the meadow 
Or meandering alone, we can face the world together or we'll 
Hit the bounding main or be on a railroad train 
Hit the boundless tide or be on a steamboat ride 
Hit the bounding main or be on a midnight plane 
Hit the pounding tide or be on a rainbow ride.

(bridge)

People always ask why the world is on the slide 
People like you and like me 
Is it really true there will be no place left to hide 
Turning to the upside, when does the fun begin.

Deep as the sea and as wild as the weather 
We might go just you and me to pick wild strawberries together 
Or be livin' on our own in a cabin in a meadow 
And the cows will come home 
They can face the world forever and we'll 
Hit the bounding main or be on a railroad train 
Hit the boundless tide or be on a steamboat ride 
Hit the bounding main or be on a midnight plane 
Hit the pounding tide or be on a rainbow ride...

Hit the bounding main or be on a midnight plane.



(Transcribed by David Story - March 2013)