Late September Dogs chords by Melissa Etheridge

Chords with lyrics

Late September Dogs
 -------------------
>From Melissa Etheridge's first album.


[bass intro] :

   ?5string BB ----------12--------------
G+G ----------------------------------------------------------
D MajorD --------------------------12------------------------------
A-----------------------------------------------------------
E MajorE ----15(16)-\6-----4-------------7-----4\2--------2b4------
   |_________|     |_________|   ^     ^
 fret at 15, pick &     ^     slide   bend if you
 quickly bend to 16   {harmonics}       can (ouch),
then slide down to 6              otherwise slide

[intro/first lines of verse]- picking pattern 1
                            D MajorD G+G BB e
  // C majorC                   |   x_x________
e-||----------12----------|--------12--------|--- |_|_1_|_|_| 10th fret
B-||.------------(13)-----|-----------13-----|--- |_|_|_|_|_|
G-||.----------------(12)-|--------------12--|--- |_|_|_2_|_3
D-||--10---10-------------|-10--10-----------|--- |_|_|_|_4_|
  \\                    |   | | | | | |


   CsusCsus                  \\  x_x________
e-------------13----------|--------13---------||- |_|_1_|_|_| 10
B----------------(13)-----|-----------13-----.||- |_|_|_|_|_|
G-------------------(12)--|--------------12--.||- |_|_|_2_|_3
D-----10---10-------------|-10--10------------||- |_|_|_|_4_4
                       //  | | | | | |


 C majorC            CsusCsus           C majorC    CsusCsus
Just outside my window I hear ...
   C majorC            CsusCsus         C majorC   CsusCsus
and I understand their ...
 C majorC        CsusCsus         C majorC    CsusCsus
Since you left, I feel a ...
   C majorC           CsusCsus         C majorC    CsusCsus
and night after night, I'm ...


[prechorus]:
   C majorC            CsusCsus
so I wake in the street ...
    C majorC       F(strum)
and I shout ...

[chorus]: (strumming)

        A minorAm           G+G
come on let it rain, let it ...
          FF             G+G
let the rain touch my ...

      [pattern1] C majorC  CsusCsus  C majorC  CsusCsus
let it rain ...


   C majorC           CsusCsus            C majorC    CsusCsus
 silence is the steel that ...
in dreams the hand that touches ...


   C majorC            CsusCsus
cruel is the light, is the ...
 C majorC            CsusCsus
hours with the devil to ...


[pre-chorus], 2nd line "..rain fill my eyes.."

[chorus]

[bass solo]


[pattern1]
C majorC              CsusCsus           C majorC   CsusCsus
Just inside the distance, I hear ...
I so I beg for sleep, the child ...


C majorC          CsusCsus              C majorC   CsusCsus
damn my soul that remembers ...
   C majorC          F[strum]
the spear in your side is ...

[chorus]

     A minorAm                 G+G
oh ho ho let it rain, let the ...
        FF              G+G
I don't wanna see, no, ...

   [pattern1] C majorC   CsusCsus      C majorC CsusCsus
let it rain down on ...


[outro]:

C majorC  CsusCsus [pattern1] to fade


Fingering:

Alternative fingering for C majorC and CsusCsus :
  C majorC         CsusCsus
___________     ___________
|_|_1_1_1_1 10th  |_|_1_1_1_1 10th fret
|_|_|_|_|_|     |_|_|_|_|_|
|_|_|_3_3_3     |_|_|_3_3_3
|_|_|_|_4_|     |_|_|_|_4_4


If the C,Csus at the 10th fret is too trebly or hard on the fingers, it
also works playing C,Csus at the nut (or possibly C,F {bracketed}) like
this:

  // C majorC                   |   x_____o___o
e-||-----------0----------|---------0--------|--- |_|_|_|_1_|
B-||.-------------(1)-----|------------1-----|--- |_|_|_|_|_|
G-||.-----------------(0)-|---------------0--|--- |_3_4_|_|_|
D-||----------------------|------------------|--- |_|_|_|_|_|
A-||---3----3-------------|--3----3----------|---
 \\

  CsusCsus or {F}               \\  x_____o____
e--------------1----------|---------1---------||- |_|_|_|_1_1
B-----------------(1)-----|------------1-----.||- |_|_|_|_|_|
G---------------------(0)-|---------------0--.||- |_3_4_|_|_|
D-----{3}--{3}------------|-{3}--{3}----------||- |_|_|_|_|_|
A------3----3-------------|--3----3-----------||-
                       //


Arrangement:

If you don't have loads of bass guitar in the back, it might be better to
strum C,Csus or even C,F at the prechorus, rather than continuing picking
pattern 1.


EADGBe
320003 - G+G
xx3211 - FF
x02210 - A minorAm


comments, improvements, etc. welcome


Nic


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