Late September Dogs chords by Melissa Etheridge

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


[bass intro] :

     ?5string B ----------12--------------
G ----------------------------------------------------------
D --------------------------12------------------------------
A-----------------------------------------------------------
E ----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 G B e
   // C                                      |     x_x________
e-||----------12----------|--------12--------|---  |_|_1_|_|_| 10th fret
B-||.------------(13)-----|-----------13-----|---  |_|_|_|_|_|
G-||.----------------(12)-|--------------12--|---  |_|_|_2_|_3
D-||--10---10-------------|-10--10-----------|---  |_|_|_|_4_|
   \\                                        |     | | | | | |


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



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



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



[chorus]: (strumming)

               Am                     G
come on let it rain, let it ...
                   F                         G
let the rain touch my ...

           [pattern1] C    Csus   C    Csus
let it rain ...



     C                      Csus                       C       Csus
 silence is the steel that ...
in dreams the hand that touches ...


      C                       Csus
cruel is the light, is the ...
  C                       Csus
hours with the devil to ...


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

[chorus]

[bass solo]


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


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

[chorus]

         Am                                 G
oh ho ho let it rain, let the ...
               F                            G
I don't wanna see, no, ...

      [pattern1] C     Csus           C  Csus
let it rain down on ...


[outro]:

C   Csus [pattern1] to fade


Fingering:

Alternative fingering for C and Csus :
    C                  Csus
___________         ___________
|_|_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                                      |     x_____o___o
e-||-----------0----------|---------0--------|---  |_|_|_|_1_|
B-||.-------------(1)-----|------------1-----|---  |_|_|_|_|_|
G-||.-----------------(0)-|---------------0--|---  |_3_4_|_|_|
D-||----------------------|------------------|---  |_|_|_|_|_|
A-||---3----3-------------|--3----3----------|---
  \\

    Csus 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
xx3211 - F
x02210 - Am


comments, improvements, etc. welcome


Nic


Nic.Boulton@cw.mercury.co.uk