Ain't No Sunshine
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Ain't No Sunshine
Bill Withers
Basically Am and Em, picking the bass note then a strum for each:
pick, Am, pick, Em, pick 6th string with pinky on third fret, repeat.
I don't have this written in below. The chords listed are transitions
from this pattern.
Intro: Repeat the above pattern a couple of times, then during
verses, starting with the first Am listed below
Ain't no sunshine when she's
Am
gone
Em
Only darkness every
Am
day
Em
Ain't no sunshine when she's
Dm
gone
And this house just ain't no
F
home,
Am
Anytime she goes away.
Wonder this time where she's gone
Wonder if she's gone to stay
Ain't no sunshine when she's
Dm
gone
And this house just ain't no
F
home,
Am
Anytime she goes away.
And I know I know I know
Gm
I
Am
know I know I know I know I
Gm
I
Am
know...
To add fill, every fourth "I know, pound on Gm and slide down two frets to Am (same fingering)
Baby you're leaving me far be
Dm
hind
There ain't sunshine when she's
Am
gone
Repeat 1st verse
This sounds great on a electric, not so great on an acoustic. For
acoustic, I strum continuously between "picks", and for the "I know"
business I pound the strings holding down only the second string
of the first fret, then hammer down onto an Am.
Speed