Chords for True Companion guitar lesson

_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Howdy, this is for my friend _ Robert Lively.
He just sent me an email and wanted to know how to play True Companion.
I'm in _ a cabin in beautiful Fisher, Texas _ down at the Rice Festival.
It's a wonderful time. _
I just got up this morning and I'll show you how to do this.
It's a drop D _ song.
So I've got the bottom E _ _ _ _ down to a [E] D.
_ [F#] In True Companion, the song opens.
Every time it's an instrumental part, the second chord is different.
It's a D.
When I start singing, the chord changes to an A. _
_ _ So the opening instrumental little finger-picking part is like this.
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ This little B minor chord there. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I go [Gm] to a D chord.
It's kind of a funky D chord.
There's an [A] _ A in the bottom.
And then the rest of the D chord I've got.
_ It's almost like the B minor where I'm holding this F sharp note here on the fourth string,
if you can see that.
So the A is open.
_ _ _ [F#m] F sharp on the D string.
Barring these two [D] here.
So A, D, F sharp, [A] A, [F#m] F sharp, A, D, F sharp.
You see this little shape here.
That's a regular D chord. _
_ That shape is still _ _ right there.
And I've got this.
_ _ _ _ [B] So B minor.
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
So what I'm really doing is [B] dropping those two B's to [A] _
an A inside the chord.
And as soon as I start singing,
_ _ Take the burdens of my day.
_ It's just a regular A chord. _ _
[B] _ All my worries roll [A]
away. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] D, open D.
And I just hit the bottom [D] D string.
And I'm playing that same funky with the F sharp there.
Every day you [F#] are my [G] _
true _ _ _ companion. _
So the G chord, _ _ that's the open A string.
I'm not playing anything on it.
The rest is the G is up here now.
Because I tuned that E string down to a D.
The G that's usually here is now here.
_ And then open [D] D, open G.
[G] Then D and G on the high B and E strings.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ Every day you are [G] my true _ _ companion.
[A] A, _
_ [Bm] _ B minor, _ [A] A.
Like the [D] sun.
_ _ That same funky F sharp there on the D string. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ Like a, what is it?
Like _ the dew [A] on a _ _ rose you make.
[B] That's A, B minor.
_ Beauty [A] shine. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Like the dew on a rose you _ [Bm]
make.
_ _ _ [A] Beauty shine. _ _ Yeah.
[Bm] _ Take the burdens of [A] my day. _ _ _
[B] _ _ All [Bm] my worries roll [A]
away.
_ Here we go again.
[D] _ _ _
Every day [D] you are my, I'll walk up [G] there.
_ True _ [A] companion. _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] Like the sun.
_ When it goes [G] back to the instrumental part [Bm] again.
Yeah.
_ That chord becomes a D [D] again.
_ _ With the A in the bass.
_ [Bm] _ _
_ Yeah.
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ B minor.
_ [D] D.
_ As soon as I start singing again.
_ [Bm] _ Like a bird on [A] the sea you bring. _
Goes back to A chord.
_ Hope to me.
_ So there you go.
That's the whole deal.
You can send me an email if there is something you don't get.
Hope you enjoy