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Song title:      Dimming Of The Day
Original Album:	 Pour Down Like Silver (Richard & Linda Thompson)
Other Album:     Longing In Their Hearts (Bonnie Raitt)

Words and Music by Richard Thompson
Copyright © 1975 Beeswing Music (BMI)
Published by ???

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Guitar1 is a steel-stringed acoustic in standard tuning.
Capo on 1. Chords and tab are relative to capo.


INTRO:

Guitar1:
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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |



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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

                  This old    house

VERSE1:

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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

              is  falling     down              a - round       my


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

      ears;__________________________                       I'm____


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

  ___ drowning            in  a     riv-er          of  my_________


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      tears._______                                        When all


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                  my will is  gone,__           you hold    me


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

  sway_______________________________________________   and then I


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

      need you        at      the   dimming             of      the


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

  day.                                                          You


CHORUS1:

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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

  pulled  me like         the moon          pulls       on      the


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

  tide.______________________________                           You


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

  know    just where      I         keep    my        bet   -   ter


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

      side.______________________________________________________


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

                                                            What days___

VERSE2:

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              have come                 to keep us  far         a -


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

- part,________                                             a


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

      bro  -  ken     prom  - ise       or      a        broken heart?


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                                                            Now all

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              the bonny       birds__           have wheeled    a-


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

 -way,_______________________________________________   and I____


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      need you        at      the   dim - ming          of      the


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

  day.


CHORUS2:
Notes:
Play as for CHORUS1.

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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

  Come    the night,     you're on__________ly          what I


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

  want.______________________________


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

  Come    the night,  you could     be      my         con  -  fi -


  A                                 D               G           C
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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

    - dant.________________________________________________________


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |



VERSE3:

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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

I see         you on the      street         and in com    -    pany.


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

  ____________________________________                      Why____


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

___   don't   you   come      and   case        your mind


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

      with me?_______________________                           I'm


  G
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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

  living              for the night             we  steal       a-


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

 -way._______________________________________________   and I____


  C/G                               G               D
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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

      need you        at      the   dim-ming            of      the


  G                                 C/G
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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

  day.                                          Yes,        I


  G                                 D
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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

  need you                   at the dimming                    of the


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

  day.