Gordon Lightfoot – Sweet Guinevere (Guitar)

Capo 2
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Chords

[Intro] | D | G | D | A | | G | A | A | D | D [Chorus]
      D                 G          D           A
Sweet Guinevere, you're off to the coal town tonight

         G             D                          A
And your young brother Ernie's up in Pittsburgh, PA

    D           G              D            A
You know mother loves you, and dad's in the mine

   G               A                               D
So don't go to the coal town, Guinevere, if you're kind
[Verse 1]
    D             G          D            A
She loves a young man and he lives in the town

       G                D                       A
And he leaves the house early for he works underground

   D            G          D            A
He makes a good wage for a coal miner's son

    G           A                          D
And she's a bit pretty, just turned twenty-one
[Chorus]
      D                 G          D           A
Sweet Guinevere, you're off to the coal town tonight

         G             D                          A
And your young brother Ernie's up in Pittsburgh, PA

    D           G              D            A
You know mother loves you, and dad's in the mine

   G               A                              D
So don't go to the coal town, Guinevere, shut the blind
[Instrumental] | D | G | D | A | | G | A | A | D | D [Verse 2]
    D              G            D          A
She knows her good mother's not feeling no pain

      G            D                             A
She remembers an explosion and the black falling rain

    D               G           D         A
She paints her thin lips in her dewy-eyed way

         G           A                         D
Then she says to the daughter, dear daughter I pray
[Chorus]
      D                 G          D           A
Sweet Guinevere, you're off to the coal town tonight

         G             D                          A
And your young brother Ernie's up in Pittsburgh, PA

    D           G              D            A
You know mother loves you, and dad's in the mine

   G               A                               D
So don't go to the coal town, Guinevere, if you're kind
[Outro] | D | G | D | A | | G | A | A | D