Chords for How to Play Dimming of the Day - by Richard Thompson

Hi, I just thought I'd do a quick lesson on how to play a simple version of Dimming of the Day by Richard Thompson
[F] This version [Em] is similar to the live version that he plays
In that it's capoed up to the fourth fret
_ I believe in the original and also in the covers like people
such as Alison Krauss [D#] and Bonnie Raitt have done and it's either played open [C] or capoed on the first fret and _
Mr.
Thompson also plays it with a
_ Drop D tuning so that's just the D
[D] tuning of the sixth string, [E] but you can just play it with
the standard tuning chord shapes
_ [Em] _ _ It's a fairly straightforward chord pattern as I say in the drop D
The chord shapes are slightly different, but it gives some nice
resounding [B] bass
notes so you get that nice D on the when you're playing the D chords
so the
_ sequence of [Em] chords for the verse is
[B] beginning on a G and
then traveling [E] via a B diminished [B] chord _ _ to the [F#] D and _ _ [E] then C _ _ _ _ _
and then the descending bass line
[C#] _ [B] _ _ [F#] _
To the D and then [B] back to the G _ [F] and then B [D#] diminished and the [F#] D and _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] then C again and
then [F#] D _ [B] and G
_ And that's it for the verse
_ [Gm] _ so for the
chorus
It goes from a D
_ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [F#] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ To an A ninth and [C#] _ _ _ _ [G#] _
_ [G#m] _ _ [G#] _ _ _ _ _
[D#] then back to the [F#] D and _ _ then [C#] A and _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ that's all the [Em] chords
[N] _ So I'm gonna play the verse through to the chorus and first just the guitar alone and then
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[G#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _
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_ This _ [B] _ old house is falling down [F#] around my _ _
_ _ _ _ I'm [E] drowning [G#m] in the fountain [B] of my
[F#] _ _ Tears
_ _ _ [B] When all my will is gone you [F#] hold me sway _ _
I _ _ [E] need you at the [B] beginning of the day
[F#] _
[B] _ _ _ [F#] You pull me like the moon pulls [C#] on the tide _
You _ _ [F#] know just where I keep my _ _ [C#] bedside
_ [F#]
I _ [E] _ _ _ need _
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[A#] _ _ _ _ [E] _ you [B] at the demand [F#] [B] of the day
_ [C#] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ [B] _ [E] _ _ _
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