Porch Light Chords

by Aoife O'Donovan
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Based on a YouTube video that displays the chord shapes clearly and shows the capo on 6.Was this info helpful?
Difficulty: intermediate
Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: Db
Capo: 6th fret
Author jb145491 [pro] 48. Last edit on Apr 4, 2021

Chords

G
Fsus2
C
Cmaj7
D
Bm/D
Am7
Dsus2
G/F
F6sus2
G5

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Aoife starts playing Porch Light around 2:57 in this video with Reverb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqecfl5vtoQ
 
Some notes first:
In the video, she's got a capo on the 6th fret, which puts this song in C#/Db, but played it's like it's in G.
Note that all of this is fingerpicked so you might have to get a feel for the fills she uses.
 
She plays two weird types of F suspended here, one in the verse and one in the chorus.
The video finally shows the verse type of Fsus2 at 5:58 in the video.
It's something like, from low pitched to high pitched strings: 1x301x.
She plays the low F with her thumb and keeps it there for most of the song,
and she just hammers over it or doesn't pick that string on the other chords.
 
The other is the F6sus2 in the chorus, which is more like 1x003x.
In the chorus, she plays this and hammers on the G note 3rd on low E   to make the G5.
 
Bm/D is just the D chord but the G string is now fretted on 4.
C/F   is just C, but she frets the low F with her thumb. Sometimes, she frets it, but doesn't play it though.
When transitioning from Am7 to C or C to Am7, she plays a quick B note 2nd on A   before the second chord.
She does the same thing, but with the E note open low E   when going from G to G/F.
Dsus2 is just a D with the G string open instead of fretted at the 2nd fret.
Anytime you play the plain G, make sure it's 32003x. Still a G chord, but highlights that high D note more.
 
[Verse]
    G               Fsus2
The darkest night I ever seen
   C       Cmaj7     G
It was the night you came to me
D       Bm/D  Am7             C
On your knees whispering 'I'm sorry'
G                 Fsus2
Keeping time with your heartbeat
  C       Cmaj7   G
I danced along on two left feet
    D         Bm/D      Am7          C
You kissed my cheek and left me on a city street.
 
[Prechorus]
D                      Dsus2               D           C     Am7  C       Am7
   Tell me where'd you go when you left my home on the bike alone
D                     Dsus2      D                       C        Am7   C     Am7
   There was room for me on your handlebars, we could've seen the stars
 
[Chorus]
G                   G/F     G       G/F
   You wanna live a life of restlessness
G         G/F    G                  G/F
   Wander 'round singin' the blues
         D             Dsus2    F6sus2
You find solace in the bar-room girls
         G5         F6sus2
They got nothing to lose
G                     G/F     G          G/F
   You want to live a life of loneliness
G        G/F   G
   Baby, so do I
        D             Dsus2       D   F6sus2           G5   F6sus2     G5    F6sus2
I wanna sit under the porch light and watch the yellow moon rise
 
 
[Verse]
G            Fsus2
If I were to let you go
    C         Cmaj7     G
How far you'd fall I'll never know
    D         Bm/D     Am7              C
I'd grab your toes and swing you like a circus show
G               Fsus2
Tame the tiger, swallow fire,
C       Cmaj7      G
Tip-toe 'cross the tightrope wire
D   Bm/D    Am7         C
Out there I hear a choir
 
 
 
[Prechorus]
D                    Dsus2        D                   C             Am7  C       Am7
   Would you help me find another stone to grind and another man to mind?
D                 Dsus2             D                        C            Am7  C       Am7
   Would you recognize that I might be a prize, that I might be a prize?
 
[Chorus]
G                   G/F     G       G/F
   You wanna live a life of restlessness
G         G/F    G
   Wander 'round singin' the blues
         D             Dsus2    F6sus2
You find solace in the bar-room girls
         G5         F6sus2
They got nothing to lose
G                     G/F     G          G/F
   You want to live a life of loneliness
G        G/F   G
   Baby, so do I
        D             Dsus2       D   F6sus2           G5   F6sus2     G5    F6sus2
I wanna sit under the porch light and watch the yellow moon rise
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