Dawns Early Light chords by Yonder Mountain String Band

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)


Verse 1:
E minorEm               D MajorD
That old prairie wind is blowing
   E minorEm        D MajorD
I can feel it on my face
    E minorEm               D MajorD
As the land, it rolls out before me
  D MajorD           E minorEm
Everything is in it's place

Verse 2:
   E minorEm        D MajorD
My old home, I'll never go to
    E minorEm        D MajorD
My old home, I'll never see
      E minorEm           D MajorD
For I must ride now across these flatlands
 D MajorD              E minorEm
Fleein' the man who murdered me

Chorus 1:
    E minorEm        D MajorD
By the dawn's early light
    E minorEm          D MajorD
Oh now, I must saddle up and ride
    E minorEm        D MajorD
By the dawn's early light
    C majorC        D MajorD
Oh now, ride through the night
     D MajorD       E minorEm
Into the dawn's early light

Verse 3:
    E minorEm     D MajorD
In the state of Indiana
     E minorEm         D MajorD
Lived the man who killed my son
      E minorEm        D MajorD
I shot him dead, now I did it indeed
   D MajorD           E minorEm
After ten long years on the run

Verse 4:
     E minorEm        D MajorD
But that man, he was not a loner
    E minorEm         D MajorD
Had two brothers, Lord, you see
        E minorEm      D MajorD
They flipped a coin to let fate decide
    D MajorD            E minorEm
Which one would come and murder me

Verse 5:
     E minorEm        D MajorD
Sun comes up, down in the valley
    E minorEm         D MajorD
In the air, sensation over me
    E minorEm            D MajorD
When I see comin' up around the corner
      D MajorD                 E minorEm
Both of the Brothers riding right in front of me

Verse 6:
      E minorEm           D MajorD
Down in the valley it's two against one
    E minorEm         D MajorD
All men reaching for their guns
      E minorEm           D MajorD
Three shots fired down deep in the valley
    D MajorD          E minorEm
Two men dying in the morning sun

Chorus 2:
    E minorEm       D MajorD
By the dawn's early light
     E minorEm       D MajorD
My boy's kneelin' by my side
    E minorEm       D MajorD
By the dawn's early light
   C majorC       D MajorD
As I lay me down to die
     D MajorD      E minorEm
Into the dawn's early light

Chorus 3:
    E minorEm       D MajorD
By the dawn's early light
    E minorEm          D MajorD
Oh now, I must saddle up and ride
    E minorEm        D MajorD
By the dawn's early light
    C majorC        D MajorD
Oh now, ride through the night
     D MajorD      E minorEm
Into the dawn's early light

Verse 7:
    E minorEm       D MajorD
Riding along into the night
    E minorEm       D MajorD
Riding along into the night
           E minorEm        D MajorD
Well, it must've been five, six years ago
     D MajorD       E minorEm
Under the dawn's early light

Verse 8:
        E minorEm               D MajorD
Well, I led my darling down the old vermillion way
      E minorEm       D MajorD
Well, I led her down to the riverside
         E minorEm       D MajorD
And we said our vows in the moonlight that night
       C majorC       D MajorD
And we knew from that day we'd never be apart
        D MajorD             E minorEm
But then it all changed in the blink of an eye