Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
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Capo: Fret 2
Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E
Song: Sundown
Artist: Gordon Lightfoot
Composer: Gordon Lightfoot
Album: Sundown
Tabbed by DJ 22nd July 2021
To hear the album track, copy and paste this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv8zyBi4ZXk
Live version with some slight stanza differences:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob6X-PmXoE4
PLAYING INFO:
Apart from the standard D chord, use the index finger for the
partial barres for the other chords. The little finger plays
the 4th fret notes.
For the optional E7 chords, from the E5 just add the ring
finger on the 2nd string/3rd fret. This is an E7(no3),
which you can choose to use ad libbed on the intrumental
break, or the end of verses to change it up slightly.
Gordon just stays on the E5 in these sections, and lets the
lead guitar add bends on sus4's and 7th's.
[A little bass
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e |-----------
B |-----------
G |-----------
D |-----------
A |-0-h2-0----
E |--------4--
run you could add in the breaks]
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CAPO: 2nd fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of F#)
Chords are named relative to the capo.
NOTE: Please IGNORE ANY CHORD DIAGRAMS the website might
automatically suggest, instead use the voicings shown below
in the text column numbers:
= 022400 = x02420 or = x02220
() = 022430 = xx0232
= x24200
Gordon Lightfoot also uses a standard A chord (x02220) in some
of his live performances, so take your personal choice.
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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
I can see her
lying back in
her satin dres
s,
In a room wher
e you do what
you don't conf
ess,
(
Sundo
wn, you better
take care,
If I find you
been creeping
'round my back
stairs,
(
Sundo
wn, you better
take care,
If I find you
been creeping
round my back
stairs
[Verse 2]
She's been loo
king like a qu
een in a sailo
rs dream,
And she don't
always say wha
t she really m
eans,
Sometimes,
I think it's
a shame,
When I get fee
ling better wh
en I'm feeling
no pain,
(
Some
times, I think
it's a shame,
When I get fee
ling better wh
en I'm feeling
no pain
[Verse 3]
I can picture
every move tha
t a man could
make,
Getting lost i
n her loving i
s your first m
istake,
Sundown, y
ou better take
care,
If I find you
been creeping
'round my back
stairs,
Sometimes
, I think it's
a sin,
When I feel li
ke I'm winning
when I'm losi
ng again
[Instrumental break]
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[Verse 4]
I can see her
looking fast i
n her faded je
ans,
She's a hard l
oving woman, g
ot me feeling
mean,
Sometimes,
I think it's
a shame
When I get fee
ling better wh
en I'm feeling
no pain,
Sundown, y
ou better take
care,
If I find you
been creeping
round my back
stairs,
Sundown, y
ou better take
care,
If I find you
been creeping
round my back
stairs
Sometimes,
I think it's
a sin,
When I feel li
ke I'm winning
when I'm losi
ng again
[Coda - repeats and fades]
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[Suggestion for Ending]
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