Song: The minstrel of the dawn
Artist: Gordon Lightfoot
Composer: Gordon Lightfoot
Album: Sit down young stranger
Tabbed by DJ
3rd Dec 2015
CAPO: 2nd fret (Sounds in the key of E)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
D = xx0232 C = x32010 E7/G# = 4xxxxx
D/F# = 20023x A/C# = x4xxxx Em = 022000
G = 320033 D/A = x0xxxx Dsus4 = xx0233
A = x02220 Bm = x24432 Gsus4 = 320013
Asus4 = x02230 E = 022100 D6 = xx0432
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[Verse 1]
D D/F#
The minstrel of the dawn is here,
G A Asus4 A
To make you laugh and bend your ear,
D D/F#
Up the steps you'll hear him climb,
G A Asus4 A
All full of thoughts, all full of rhymes,
G C
Listen to the pictures flow,
G C A Asus4 A
A - cross the room in - to your mind they go,
A/C# D D/A G Bm
Listen to the strings, they jangle and dangle,
E E7/G# A
While the old gui - tar rings!
[Verse 2]
D D/F#
A minstrel of the dawn is he,
G A Asus4 A
Not too wise, but, oh, so free,
D D/F#
He'll talk of life out on the street,
G A Asus4 A
He'll play it sad, and say it sweet,
G C G
Look into his shining face of loneliness,
C A Asus4 A
You'll always find a trace,
A/C# D D/A G
Just like me and you,
Bm E E7/G# A
He's trying to get into things more happy than blue!
[Break]
Em A Em A
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[Verse 3]
D D/F#
A minstrel of the changing tide,
G A Asus4 A
He'll ask for nothing but his pride,
D D/F#
Just sit him down, u - pon that chair,
G A Asus4 A
Go fetch some wine, and set it there,
G C
Listen to the pictures flow,
G C A Asus4 A
And follow the fingers where they go,
A/C# D D/A G Bm
Listen to the strings, they jangle and dangle,
E E7/G# A Asus4 A
While the old gui - tar rings!
[Verse 4]
D D/F#
A minstrel of the dawn is near,
G A Asus4 A
Just like a 'step'n'fetch it' here,
D D/F#
He's like an old time troubadour,
G A Asus4 A
Just wanting life, and nothing more,
G C
Look into his shining eyes,
G C A Asus4 A
And, if you see a ghost, don't be sur - prised,
A/C# D D/A G
Like me and you,
Bm E E7/G# A
He's trying to get into things more happy than blue!
[Verse 5]
A/C# D D/F#
A minstrel boy will understand,
G A Asus4 A
He holds a promise in his hand,
D D/F#
He talks of better days ahead,
G A Asus4 A
And by his word your fortune's read,
G C G
Listen to the pictures flow a - cross the room,
C A Asus4 A
In - to your mind they go,
A/C# D D/A G Bm
Listen to the strings, they jangle and dangle,
E E7/G# A Asus4 A
While the old gui - tar rings!
[Verse 6]
A/C# D D/F#
The minstrel of the dawn is gone,
G A Asus4 A
I hope he'll call be - fore too long,
D
And, if you meet him,
D/F# G A Asus4 A
You must be the victim of his minstrelsy!
[Coda]
G D Dsus4 D
He'll sing for you a song,
G G4 G D6 D
The minstrel----- ...of the dawn------!
A D
e |----------------|---2---||
B |--2----2--------|---3---||
G |--2-------------|---2---||
D |-----2----------|---0---||
A |--0-------2--4--|-------||
E |----------------|-------||
