Long Thin Dawn Chords

KeyD Capo4st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays499

Long Thin Dawn by Gordon Lightfoot is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D with a capo on the 4st fret. It uses the chords D, G, Dsus2, E7 and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Intro: D 

 
     G         D 
That long thin dawn  
     G         D 
That long thin dawn  
   Dsus2      D 
Is coming on again 


verse 1: 
                                      G                D 
I've seen the hills of Frisco and the streets of Montreal  
                                E7             A 
In every town I've been to I've had someone to call  
     D                        G             D 
From Winnipeg to Edmonton, Vancouver to St. Paul  
                                 G                  A 
I've had so many good friends, I couldn't miss them all 

 
     G         D 
That long thin dawn  
     G         D 
That long thin dawn  
   Dsus2      D 
Is coming on again 


verse 2: 
                               G                      D 
Last night I came to Denver, beneath the snow  capped ridge  
                                E7                A 
I thought about my darling as I stood beneath the bridge  
    D                                      G                  D 
And there were times I made her cry, but I guess by now she's learned  
                               G             A 
That any time I've wandered, I always have returned 


 
        G         D 
In that long thin dawn  
     G         D 
That long thin dawn  
   Dsus2      D 
Is coming on again 


verse 3: 
                                 G          D 
Right now I'm on a highway, just east of Omaha  
                              E7           A 
Riding shotgun on the biggest rig you ever saw  
     D                            G                D 
With forty tons of pig iron and a trucker known as Bill  
                              G                 A 
All the way to Windsor, we've got some miles to kill 


 
        G         D 
In that long thin dawn  
     G         D 
That long thin dawn  
   Dsus2      D 
Is coming on again 


verse 4: 
                                   G                D 
While climbing up a hillside, Bill drops her down a gear  
                                      E7          A 
And the engine sings so sweetly, 'tis music to my ear  
  D                              G             D 
I tell him how I long to be just like him if I can  
                                 G                   A 
Driving like the restless wind, across this precious land 


        G         D 
In that long thin dawn  
     G         D 
That long thin dawn  
   Dsus2      D 
Is coming on again 


VERSE 5: 
                                             G             D 
Says Bill, "The air is clean tonight," as he puffs a big cigar  
                                   E7                A 
"And if this rig keeps rolling, my boy you'll travel far  
    D                             G          D 
But when you are a trucker you'll come to realize  
                               G                  A 
The only thing a man can do is watch the world go by" 


 
        G         D 
In that long thin dawn  
     G         D 
That long thin dawn  
   Dsus2      D 
Is coming on again 

     G         D 
That long thin dawn  
     G         D 
That long thin dawn  
   Dsus2      D 
Is coming on again  
    	

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