Biography:
Ron Sexsmith is a Canadian from St. Catharines, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. He is known as a songwriter's songwriter, with a gift for melody, insightful and understated lyrics, and an expressive, affecting voice.
Sexsmith started his first band at 14. After moving to Toronto he formed the Uncool and released his cassette Out of the Duff, and a year later, There's a Way. Meanwhile, he worked as a courier, and released Grand Opera Lane in 1991.
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Other songs:
- All In Good Time
- A Kiss For Luck
- All In Good Times
- Almost Always
- Brandy Alexander
- Cant Get My Act Together
- Chased By Love
- Cheap Hotel
- Dandelion Wine
- Dont Ask Why
- Evergreen
- Eye Candy
- Feel For You
- Former Glory
- From Now On
- Get In Line
- Getaway Car
- Gold In Them Hills
- Hands Of Time
- Hard Bargain
- Hard Time
- Heavenly
- Idiot Boy
- Im Alone But Thats Okay
- Imaginary Friends
- Impossible World
- It Wont Last For Long
- Jazz At The Bookstore
- Just My Heart Talkin
- Late Bloomer
- Least That I Can Do
- Lebanon Tennessee
- Lord Knows
- Love Shines
- Lucky Penny
- Maybe This Christmas
- Miracle In Itself
- Never Been Done
- No Help At All
- Nothing Good
- Nowhere To Go
- One Last Round
- One More Colour
- Only Trouble Is
- Radio
- Right About Now
- Riverbed
- Secret Heart
- Seem To Recall
- She Does My Heart Good
- Shoreline
- Sneak Out The Back Door
- Snow Angel
- Still Time
- Strawberry Blonde
- Tears Behind The Shades
- The Reason Why
- Theres A Rhythm
- These Days
- Thinking Out Loud
- This Is How I Know
- This Song
- Tomorrow In Her Eyes
- Too Late
- Traveling Alone
- Tumbling Sky
- Whatever It Takes
- While Youre Waiting
- Who We Are Right Now
- Wishing Wells
- Worried Song
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Strawberry Blonde - Ron Sexsmith
Transcribed by John Kean & Glenn Pearson.
Capo 2nd fret.
[Intro] (pick melody out from within a G chord)
G G
4/4 , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
||---------------------|-----------------------||
||---------------------|-----------------------||
||*-------0---------0--|-0h2---0--------------*||
||*-----------0-0h2----|-----------0-------0--*||
||---------------------|---------------0h2-----||
||--3------------------|-----------------------||
[Verse 1]
Am D
She was not the girl next door
G C
But the girl from 'round the corner
Am D
S'at the tail end of grade four
G C
When she came to school one morning
C D G G/F# Em
All eyes were upon her as she took her seat
C D G G/F# Em
Her name was Amanda, with pretty eyes of green
C D G
And hair of blonde, strawberry blonde
[Verse 2]
Springtime and dandelions
And summer 'round the corner
At the tail end of age nine
With a million dreams before her
She lived with her mother in an old decrepit house
If there was trouble at home she kept it to herself
All summer long, the strawberry blonde
[Chorus]
Em Bm C G
And by her face there was no way to tell
C G D B7
It seemed like all was well in her world
Em Bm C G
But the neighbours said her mother had lost her will
C G
To gin and sleeping pills
D G
It was no life for a little girl
[Solo] (pick melody out from within chords)
Am7 D G
, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
||--------3---------|-2h3-2-0---------|-----------------|
||--1---------------|-------------0h1-|-3-------0h1-3---|
||*-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||*-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|
1.----------------. 2.----------------
C C B7
, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
|------------------||-----------------||
|------------------||-----------------||
|-0---------------*||-0---------------||
|-----------------*||-----------------||
|------------------||-----------------||
|------------------||-----------------||
[Chorus]
Still I see her face framed in blue sky
At the top of a slide coming down
And when the sirens wailed her mother had failed to rise
All the neighbours stood outside
As Amanda just stared at the ground
[Verse 3]
Time flies and years are piled
I'd forgotten all about her
When I saw her down the aisle
Of a streetcar with her daughter
Then I heard Amanda say as she got up
"C'mon Samantha, girl this is our stop"
C D C
And they were gone,
D G Gadd2 G
Two strawberry blondes
Transcribed by John Kean & Glenn Pearson.
Capo 2nd fret.
[Intro] (pick melody out from within a G chord)
G G
4/4 , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
||---------------------|-----------------------||
||---------------------|-----------------------||
||*-------0---------0--|-0h2---0--------------*||
||*-----------0-0h2----|-----------0-------0--*||
||---------------------|---------------0h2-----||
||--3------------------|-----------------------||
[Verse 1]
Am D
She was not the girl next door
G C
But the girl from 'round the corner
Am D
S'at the tail end of grade four
G C
When she came to school one morning
C D G G/F# Em
All eyes were upon her as she took her seat
C D G G/F# Em
Her name was Amanda, with pretty eyes of green
C D G
And hair of blonde, strawberry blonde
[Verse 2]
Springtime and dandelions
And summer 'round the corner
At the tail end of age nine
With a million dreams before her
She lived with her mother in an old decrepit house
If there was trouble at home she kept it to herself
All summer long, the strawberry blonde
[Chorus]
Em Bm C G
And by her face there was no way to tell
C G D B7
It seemed like all was well in her world
Em Bm C G
But the neighbours said her mother had lost her will
C G
To gin and sleeping pills
D G
It was no life for a little girl
[Solo] (pick melody out from within chords)
Am7 D G
, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
||--------3---------|-2h3-2-0---------|-----------------|
||--1---------------|-------------0h1-|-3-------0h1-3---|
||*-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||*-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|
1.----------------. 2.----------------
C C B7
, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
|------------------||-----------------||
|------------------||-----------------||
|-0---------------*||-0---------------||
|-----------------*||-----------------||
|------------------||-----------------||
|------------------||-----------------||
[Chorus]
Still I see her face framed in blue sky
At the top of a slide coming down
And when the sirens wailed her mother had failed to rise
All the neighbours stood outside
As Amanda just stared at the ground
[Verse 3]
Time flies and years are piled
I'd forgotten all about her
When I saw her down the aisle
Of a streetcar with her daughter
Then I heard Amanda say as she got up
"C'mon Samantha, girl this is our stop"
C D C
And they were gone,
D G Gadd2 G
Two strawberry blondes
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