Lazy Day Chords

KeyGm Capo1st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays472

Lazy Day by Left Banke is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Gm with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords Gm7, Dm, F, Csus4, Bb and Eb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
Gm
Text
16
Speed
  			

CAPO I 

INTRO 
Gm7 

MAIN RIFF (2x, played throughout the verses) 
   Dm      Gm7 
e|------------------| 
B|------------------| 
G|------------------| 
D|----7----5--------| 
A|-5----------7-7br-| 
E|------------------| 

verse 1 
Dm          Gm7          Dm  Gm7 
 My life is one big lazy day 
Dm         Gm7              Dm  Gm7 
 My mother taught me not to pray 
F             Gm7              Dm 
 Find someone else to make you see 
F           Gm7              Dm 
 My life is really not for free 

Csus4         F  
Find someone else to make you 
Bb             Eb             Dm 
See my life is really not for free 

MAIN RIFF 2x 

verse 2 
Dm          Gm7          Dm  Gm7 
 My life is one big lazy day 
Dm               Gm7          Dm          Gm7 
 My friends have funny ways to make me stay 
F                  Gm7                 Dm 
 Well, I just have been something they turn away 
F               Gm7                   Dm 
 You think it's worth it and I say it's okay 

Csus4            F  
 Look around and you have found that 
Bb                  Eb                Dm 
Things are really gray, it's not your day 

MAIN RIFF 2x 

verse 3 (same as verse 1) 
Dm          Gm7          Dm  Gm7 
 My life is one big lazy day 
Dm         Gm7              Dm  Gm7 
 My mother taught me not to pray 
F             Gm7              Dm 
 Find someone else to make you see, yeah 
F           Gm7              Dm 
 My life is really not for free, yeah 

Csus4         F  
Find someone else to make you 
Bb             Eb             Dm 
See my life is really not for free, yeah 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante