Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot

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Capo: Fret 2
Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E

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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
   (
e |-----------
B |-----------
G |-----------
D |-----------
A |-0-h2-0----
E |--------4--

 run you could add in the breaks]
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---|  h = Hammer-on note
0--|

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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