Billy Joel - Summer, Highland Falls (PPM arrangement)

This is based on the Peter, Paul, and Mary version, which is in E. Billy Joel’s

is in F.

I play in D

D	D	D	G
			x4

	D	G	D/F#
They say that	these are not the	best of	times

	G	D/F#	Em7	D/F#	A
But t	hey’re the	only	times I’ve ever	known

	D	G	D/F#	G	D/F#
And I be	lieve there is a	time for	medit	ation

	Em7	A	E	A
In cat	hedrals of our	own	→

F#/A#	Bm	Bm/A
Now I have	seen that sad	surrender

	G	G	D/F#
In my	lover’s eyes

	E	E/G#	A
And	I can only	stand apart and	sympathize

	D	Em7	G
For we are	always what our	situations	hand us

	A	G	C	G
It’s either	sadness or eup	horia	→

A	D	C	G	A
Sadness or eu	phoria	→

	D	G	D/F#
And so we’ll	argue and we’ll co	mpromi	se

	G	D/F#	Em7	D	A
And r	eal	ize that n	othing’s really	changed

	D	G	D/F#
For all our m	utual ex	perienc	e

	G	D/F#	Em7	A	E	A
Our	separ	ate conc	lusions are the	same	→

F#/A#	Bm	Bm/A
Now we are	forced to recog	nize our

	G	G	D/F#
Inhu	manity

	E	E/G#	A
Our	reason coex	ists with our in	sanity

	D	Em7	G
And so we c	hoose between re	ality and m	adness

	A	G	C	G
It’s either	sadness or eup	horia	→

If going into a solo here, the F# comes right after the D

A	D
Sadness or eu	phoria

Instrumental if appropriate on chorus chords, with F# leading in

F#	Bm	Bm/A	G	D/F#
→

PPM do a full verse here on “la”

F#/A#	Bm	Bm/A	G	G	D/F#
How thought	lessly we dissi	pate our ener	gies

	E	E/G#	A
Perh	aps we don’	t fulfill each other’s	fantasies

	D	Em7	G
So we	stand upon the	ledges of our liv	es

	A	G	C	G
With our resp	ective simi	larities	→

	A	G
It’s either	sadness or eup	horia

Hanging end on G, I usually stop here

PPM do *another* full verse here on “la”