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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.
#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.
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