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Day Is Done by Nick Drake
Day Is Done
Tuning: standard capo 5th fret
Main pattern for intro / verses:
|--------0-------|--0-------0-----|----0-----0-----|--------0---------|
|----0h1-----1---|0---0---0---0---|0h1-----1---1---|--0h1p0---3---1---|
|--2-------2---2-|----------------|----------------|-------2----2---2-|
|----------------|------2-------2-|------2-------2-|------------------|
|0-------0---0---|----------------|----------------|------------------|
|----------------|4-------4---4---|3-------3---3---|2-------2-----2---|
|--------0-3-0-----|--------0-------|----------------|----------------|
|--0h1p0-------1---|----0h1-----1---|------0---------|------0---------|
|-------2--------2-|--2-------2-----|----2---2-------|----2---1-------|
|------------------|--------------0-|--0-------1---1-|--2-------2-----|
|------------------|0-------0---0---|----------------|------------2---|
|1-------1---------|----------------|1-----------1---|0---------------|
(h = hammer on, p = pull off)
notes -
1. The picking varies a lot, so e.g. bars 7 and 8 are slightly
different in the intro, but above seems to be the template, and it
seems pointless to try to transcribe exactly which notes are
played for the entire song.
2. The hammers and pulls of bars 4 and 5 tend to get simplified in
the verses to various pickngs of 2x0210 and 1x0210 respectively.
3. Verses 2 and 6 repeat bars 5 and 6
4. Verses 2, 4, 6 have a quicker end, replacing bars 7 and 8 with:
|----------------|
|------0---------|
|----2---2---1---|
|--0h1-----2---2-|
|----------------|
|1-------0-------|
(h - the 1 is hammered on, not picked)
Last verse ends with same bar as for v2,4,6, then:
|------------------
|------3-0-----0---
|----2---------5--- (in free timing)
|--2-------2---2---
|0-------------0---
|------------0-----
When the day is done
Down to earth then sinks the sun
Along with everything that was lost and won
When the day is done.
When the day is done
Hope so much your race will be all run
Then you find you jumped the gun
Have to go back where you began
When the day is done.
When the night is cold
Some get by but some get old
Just to show life's not made of gold
When the night is cold
When the bird has flown
Got no-one to call your own
Got no place to call your home
When the bird has flown.
When the game's been fought
You speed the ball across the court
Lost much sooner than you would have thought
Now the game's been fought.
When the party's through
Seems so very sad for you
Didn't do the things you meant to do
Now there's no time to start anew
Now the party's through.
When the day is done
Down to earth then sinks the sun
Along with everything that was lost and won
When the day is done
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