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Gordon Lightfoot – Early Morning Rain

Gordon Lightfoot – Early Morning Rain

Gordon Lightfoot – Early Morning Rain
Gordon Lightfoot – Early Morning Rain

Learn how to play Gordon Lightfoot – Early Morning Rain note-for-note on guitar.

Difficulty level: Easy

Barre chords: No

Thumb over chords: No

Playing Style: Strummed. Originally played on a 12-string but taught here on a 6-string.

Tuning: Drop D

The complete file contains a lesson video, a performance play thru video, full tabs, chords and lyrics. You’ll receive an link by email to download the lesson which will download as a zip file of 154 Mb containing all the lesson content.

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  1. chris says

    December 19, 2018 at 8:17 pm

    Early Mornin’ Rain

    I was a teenager when I got his first LP. Still have it. This is a great instruction set Jerry. Many thanks. My guitar is a (Canadian) Norman 12-string and I am dusting it off, and your lesson has helped greatly in bringing it back to life! Darn good cover voice too.

    Lightfoot himself seems to change up the lyrics sometimes.

    However, referring to your PDF, some who covered early on sang it as “Where the pavement never grows”. On his LP I hear it as “with a pain that ever grows” which seems better poetically connected to the preceding “I miss my loved ones so”. I’ve heard that line as “Where the cold wind a-blows”, which is nice too, likely created by a cover artist.

    “She’ll be going down at last”. Original flavor is more like: “Well she’s rollin’ down/now at last,” ie taking off in my interpretation.

    I’ve heard both “silver bird” and “silver wing”.

    Also in your PDF, “There the mornin’ rain don’t fall” more likely is “Where the mornin’ rain don’t fall”, seems to me.

    BBC 1969
    https://youtu.be/ZFJ5Bj_put0

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  2. Jake Mohr says

    October 8, 2018 at 1:45 am

    Found you on YouTube, I appreciate how well you broken this all down. You definitely know what your doing. Thanks for the lesson. Jake in Mississippi, about 60 miles from the “Crossroads”

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  3. Bruce McNaughton says

    June 11, 2018 at 1:27 am

    Bar none, the best lesson format I’ve ever encountered, especially the original voiceover on your playthru. Cool that you cover John Fahey. Any chance of some Leo Kottke? …my all-time guitar hero :)
    Bruce

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  4. jerry smith says

    February 6, 2018 at 4:35 pm

    thanks for the lesson…

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  5. Terry says

    December 8, 2016 at 2:08 am

    OK you win by far one of the best I have seen Hands down can’t wait to look at the rest of the songs you have
    Terry

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  6. Lai hean chai says

    January 8, 2016 at 11:50 am

    I have received your email with the link but I cannot download. Please help.
    I really enjoy your teaching.

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  7. Tom Calvert says

    July 16, 2015 at 1:47 pm

    Hello Jerry,You are “Manner from Heaven”-A last .you explain it all SO well,I’m hooked onto your website Tom in Cumbria Uk

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  8. Rozzi Bazzani says

    July 10, 2015 at 3:08 am

    Jerry just found you on the net. The clarity of your lessons is the best. Lots of material on your list that I want to work through, see you again soon. I am in Melbourne Australia.

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