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Sundown
Gordon Lightfoot
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00:00 Song Demo
01:04 Lesson Intro
01:43 Chords E B7 A D
04:29 Improve your strumming technique!
05:10 Strumming Pattern
06:15 Add a little bass line...
10:48 Lesson Outro

It's not WHAT you strum...

...But HOW you strum it!

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CAPO 2 

 

[BASS LINE]

  E

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*use video lesson to help with this bass run.

 

 

[VERSE 1]

     E

I can see her lyin' back in her satin dress

    B7                       E

In a room where ya do what ya don't confess

 

[CHORUS]

E             A

  Sundown ya better take care

    D                                E

If I find you've been creepin' 'round my back stairs

E             A

  Sundown ya better take care

    D                                E

If I find you've been creepin' 'round my back stairs

 

[VERSE 2]

           E

She's been lookin' like a queen in a sailor's dream

        B7                        E

And she don't always say what she really means

 

[CHORUS]

E              A

  Sometimes I think it's a shame

       D                           E

When I get feelin' better when I'm feelin' no pain

E              A

  Sometimes I think it's a shame

       D                           E

When I get feelin' better when I'm feelin' no pain

 

[INTERLUDE]

| E  | E   | E   |

 

[VERSE 3]

     E

I can picture every move that a man could make

        B7                         E

Getting lost in her lovin' is your first mistake

 

[CHORUS]

E             A

  Sundown ya better take care

    D                                E

If I find you've been creepin' 'round my back stairs

E              A

  Sometimes I think it's a sin

       D                              E

When I feel like I'm winnin' when I'm losin' again

 

[INTERLUDE]

| E  | E   | E   | E  | (repeat)

 

[VERSE 4]

     E

I can see her lookin' fast in her faded jeans

        B7                        E

She's a hard lovin' woman, got me feelin' mean

 

[CHORUS]

E              A

  Sometimes I think it's a shame

       D                           E

When I get feelin' better when I'm feelin' no pain

E             A

  Sundown ya better take care

    D                                E

If I find you've been creepin' 'round my back stairs

E             A

  Sundown ya better take care

    D                                E

If I find you've been creepin' 'round my back stairs

E              A

  Sometimes I think it's a sin

       D                              E

When I feel like I'm winnin' when I'm losin' again

 

[OUTRO]

| E  | E   | E   | E  | (repeat)