More songs by Gordon Lightfoot

This file is part of a collection that (moreso than the rest of the site) are not meant to be detailed or accurate transcriptions of the original recordings. They're just some simple chord charts that I made for my own use, some of them my own arrangements.
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"SUNDOWN" by Gordon Lightfoot www.lightfoot.ca
From his 1975 album Cold on the Shoulder
Written by Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr.
Transcribed by T-rev www.t-rev.net

Capo 4

Album recording sounds like Lightfoot's 12-string rhythm guitar
is tuned double-drop-D (DADGBD). I'd do this standard-tuned
with a regular capo at the 2nd fret and a partial capo covering
the middle four strings at the 4th fret.

D5   D7

      D5                        %
I can see her lying back in her satin dress
     A                          D5
In a room where you do what you don't confess

 D5            G                                        }
   Sundown you better take care                         } 2×
        C                                D5             }
   If I find you've been creeping 'round my back stairs }


           D5                        %
She's been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream
        A                         D5
And she don't always say what she really means

 D5            G                                        }
   Sometimes I think it's a shame                       } 2×
          C                           D5                }
   When I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain   }


      D5                        %
I can picture every move that a man could make
        A                          D5
Getting lost in her loving is your first mistake

 D5            G
   Sundown you better take care
        C                                D5
   If I find you've been creeping 'round my back stairs

 D5            G
   Sometimes I think it's a sin
          C                              D5
   When I feel like I'm winning when I'm losing again


D5   D7


      D5                          %
I can see her looking fast in her faded jeans
        A                         D5
She's a hard loving woman, got me feeling mean

 D5            G
   Sometimes I think it's a shame
          C                           D5
   When I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain

 D5            G                                        }
   Sundown you better take care                         } 2×
        C                                D5             }
   If I find you've been creeping 'round my back stairs }

D7

 D5            G
   Sometimes I think it's a sin
          C                              D5
   When I feel like I'm winning when I'm losing again

Transcribed 2020-07-02 by T-rev
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xx023x D5
xx021x D7 and xx0212
x02220 A
320003 G
x3201x C

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