Gordon Lightfoot Chords
For Songs On The Acoustic Guitar
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1.Alberta Bound | 2.Carefree Highway | 3.Early Morning Rain
4.If You Could Read My Mind | 5.Race Among The Ruins | 6.Rainy Day People
7.Ribbon Of Darkness | 8.Sundown | 9.Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
Alberta Bound
This was a song that Lightfoot wrote on a bus heading for Calgary after listening to a teenage girl back in 1971. This song is played in drop D tuning with a capo on the 2nd fret.
The chords are D, G and A7.
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Carefree Highway
This song was named after a highway north of Phoenix AZ and became a #1 hit on the Easy Listening chart back in 1974.
The chords you'll need here are D, A, F, Bm, Bm/A, G, A7sus, A7, Esus and a C.
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Early Morning Rain
Ian and Sylvia Tyson were the first artists to record this song. Elvis had a #5 hit back in 1977.
I'm playing this one with a capo on the 3rd in D. G and A7 is also needed and some versions even use an Em.
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If You Could Read My Mind
Many big name artists including Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell and Don Williams all covered Gordon Lightfoot songs, and this song from Lightfoot hit #1 on the Easy Listening chart and was the first song to break into the American music charts in Jan 1971.
With capo on the 2nd Im using a G, FMaj7, G7, C, D, Em, Bnote + Bstring 3rd fret and an Am and D7.
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Race Among The Ruins
Race Among The Ruins was from the Summertime Dream album of 1976. The song wasn't a huge commercial success for Lightfoot.
I play this one with a capo on the 2nd fret using, D, A, G, D/Gb.
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Rainy Day People
Several Of Lightfoots songs hit number 1 on the Easy Listening chart, and this one was his last to peak at #1 back in 1975.
This one I'm playing with a capo on the 4th in G, Am, C and D.
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Ribbon Of Darkness
This song became a #1 hit for Marty Robbins backin 1965 but the song is a Gordon Lightfoot composition.
I play a much faster bluegrass version below in G, C, D, D7 and Am.
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Sundown
Sundown was one of Gordon Lightfoot's most popular songs and was released as a single in the spring of 1974. It was written about his then girlfriend, Cathy Smith and is played in E, B7, A and D.
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The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
A song written about the sinking of the bulk carrier of the same name on Lake Superior, this song peaked at #2 in the US in November 1976.
I have a capo on the 2nd fret using A, Em, G and D. I'm also using an open B string in the A chord.
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