Minstrel Of The Dawn Chords

Song: Minstrel of the dawn
Artist: Gordon Lightfoot
Composer: Gordon Lightfoot
Album: Sit down young stranger
Tabbed by DJ  3rd Dec 2015
 
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CAPO: 2nd fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of E)
 
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
D     = xx0232    C    = x32010    E7/G# = 4xxxxx
D/F#  = 20023x    A/C# = x4xxxx    Em    = 022000
G     = 320033    D/A  = x0xxxx    Dsus4 = xx0233
A     = x02220    Bm   = x24432    Gsus4 = 320013
Asus4 = x02230    E    = 022100    D6    = xx0432
 
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[Verse 1]
    D               D/F#
The minstrel of the dawn is here,
   G                  A               Asus4  A
To make you laugh and bend your ear,
D                   D/F#
Up the steps you'll hear him climb,
    G                      A               Asus4  A
All full of thoughts, all full of rhymes,
G                 C
    Listen to the pictures flow,
    G                   C                 A  Asus4 A
A - cross the room in - to your mind they go,
A/C#   D         D/A G             Bm
       Listen to the strings, they jangle and dangle,
          E         E7/G#  A
While the old gui - tar    rings
 
[Verse 2]
  D               D/F#
A minstrel of the dawn is he,
G                  A              Asus4  A
Not too wise, but, oh, so free,
      D                D/F#
He'll talk of life out on  the street,
      G                A              Asus4  A
He'll play it sad, and say it sweet,
G                C               G
   Look into his shining face of loneliness,
       C             A       Asus4  A
You'll always find a trace,
A/C#  D            D/A  G
      Just like me and  you,
     Bm                             E     E7/G#  A
He's trying to get into things more happy than   blue
 
[Break]
   Em             A              Em             A
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |
 
[Verse 3]
  D               D/F#
A minstrel of the changing tide,
      G               A                Asus4  A
He'll ask for nothing but his pride,
     D                 D/F#
Just sit him down, u - pon that chair,
   G                    A              Asus4  A
Go fetch some wine, and set it there,
G                 C
    Listen to the pictures flow,
    G          C                  A   Asus4  A
And follow the fingers where they go,
A/C#  D         D/A  G              Bm
      Listen to the  strings, they jangle and dangle,
          E         E7/G#  A      Asus4 A
While the old gui - tar    rings
 
[Verse 4]
  D               D/F#
A minstrel of the dawn is near,
     G              A                 Asus4  A
Just like a 'step'n'fetch it' here,
     D                D/F#
He's like an old time troubadour,
     G                 A              Asus4  A
Just wanting life, and nothing more,
G                 C
    Look into his shining eyes,
     G            C                     A       Asus4  A
And, if you see a ghost, don't be sur - prised,
A/C#  D       D/A  G
      Like me and  you,
     Bm                             E     E7/G#  A
He's trying to get into things more happy than   blue
 
[Verse 5]
A/C#    D                 D/F#
      A minstrel boy will understand,
   G               A              Asus4  A
He holds a promise in his hand,
   D               D/F#
He talks of better days ahead,
    G                A                Asus4  A
And by his word your fortune's read,
G                C                 G
   Listen to the pictures flow a - cross the room,
     C                 A    Asus4  A
In - to your mind they go,
A/C#   D         D/A  G             Bm
       Listen to the  strings, they jangle and dangle,
          E         E7/G#  A      Asus4 A
While the old gui - tar    rings
 
[Verse 6]
A/C#  D               D/F#
The   minstrel of the dawn is gone,
  G                    A               Asus4  A
I hope he'll call be - fore too long,
     D
And, if you meet him,
D/F#            G             A           Asus4  A
You must be the victim of his minstrelsy
 
[Coda]
      G              D      Dsus4 D
He'll sing for you a song,
    G        G4    G           D6    D
The minstrel-----    ...of the dawn------!
 
     A                 D
e |----------------|---2---||
B |--2----2--------|---3---||
G |--2-------------|---2---||
D |-----2----------|---0---||
A |--0-------2--4--|-------||
E |----------------|-------||
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