Someone To Lay Down Beside Me Acoustic chords by Karla Bonoff

Chords with lyrics

Someone to Lay Down Beside Me
by Karla Bonoff

Intro: A minorAm Asus4Asus4 Asus2Asus2 arpeggio (see picking pattern at bottom)

A minorAm arpeg
There's somebody waiting alone in the street

For someone to walk up and greet?
Dm7Dm7        G+G
 Here you are all alone in the city
?Dm7            G+G
 Where's the love that you took to your side?
Dm7Dm7        G+G               A minorAm arpeg
 Lonely faces will stare through your eyes in the night
?Am arpeg
And they'll say

Woman sweet woman, please come home with me

You're shining and willing and free
?Dm7         G+G
 But your love is a common occurrence
?Dm7          G+G
 Not like love that I feel in my heart?
Dm7Dm7         G+G
 Still you know that may be what I need

       DmDm     G+G   Dm7Dm7 G+G
Is someone to lay down beside me?
     DmDm       G+G  Dm7Dm7 G+G
And even though it's not real
?        DmDm     G+G
Just someone to lay down beside me
?      Dm7Dm7      A minorAm arpeg
You're the story of my life?

inst: like verse (A minorAm arpeg Dm7Dm7 G+G)

      DmDm     G+G   Dm7Dm7 G+G
Someone to lay down beside me?
     DmDm       G+G  Dm7Dm7 G+G
And even though it's not real
?        DmDm     G+G
Just someone to lay down beside me
?      Dm7Dm7      A minorAm arpeg
You're the story of my life?

A minorAm arpeg
The morning is breaking, the street lights are off?

The sun will soon share all the cost
?Dm7         G+G
 Of a world that can be sort of heartless
?Dm7          G+G
 Not like love that I feel in my heart?
Dm7Dm7           G+G
 Still you know that may be all you'll get?

       DmDm     G+G    Dm7Dm7 G+G
Is someone to lay down beside you
     DmDm       G+G  Dm7Dm7 G+G
And even though it's not real
?        DmDm     G+G
Just someone to lay down beside you?
      Dm7Dm7       A minorAm arpeg slow to end
You just can't ask for more

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Tab Playing Notes:
- Capo at 7 for original key
- Chords: A minorAm arpeggio - Am-X02210, Asus4-X02230, Asus2-X02200
     Dm7-XX0211, G-320033, Dm-XX0231
- Using an A minorAm to Asus4Asus4 to Asus2Asus2 arpeggio gives a feel
much more like the piano part
at the beginning of each verse.
It is easiest if you finger pick and use your thumb to
play the first three notes with a downstroke,
play the fourth note with the middle finger upstroke and
play the last three notes with an index finger upstroke.
During the last 4 notes you can work in alternating bass notes on
the A augmentedA and/or D MajorD strings with your thumb.
the A augmentedA and/or D MajorD strings with your thumb.

  A minorAm arpeggio strumming pattern (A minorAm > Asus4Asus4 > A minorAm > Asus2Asus2)
e -----0------------------------------------------|
BB ------3-1-0-------------------------------------|
G+G ---2--------------------------------------------|
D MajorD --2---------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA -0----------------------------------------------|
?E ------------------------------------------------|