Lay down your weary tune Chords
by Bob Dylan
Lay down your weary tune by Bob Dylan is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, B, A, G, C, Em and D/A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
(sounding key A major)
The strumming is very square, and only with downstrokes.
D /D /B A G C
. . . : . . .
--2-----------|-3---3---3---3---|-0-----
--3-----------|-0---0---0---0---|-1-----
--2---2---0---|-0---0---0---0---|-0----- etc
--0---0---0-0-|-0---0---0---0---|-2-----
------3---2-0-|-2---2(0)2---2(0)|-3-----
--------------|-3---3(0)3---3(0)|-3-----
Lay down your wea - ry tune . . .
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D /C /B A G C G
Lay down your weary tune, lay down,
Em D
Lay down the song you strum,
/C /B A G D/A G C
And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings
G D /C B G . D
No voice can hope to hum.
/C /B A G C G
Struck by the sounds before the sun,
I knew the night had gone.
The morning breeze like a bugle blew
Against the drums of dawn.
Lay down your weary tune, lay down,
Lay down the song you strum,
And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings
No voice can hope to hum.