Dr John – Such a Night (Chords)
Even by the standards of 1968, Dr John’s debut album Gris Gris is a trip into the strange and unnerving. With I Walk on Guilded Splinters being a masterpiece. But I’ve gone with something more uke-suitable to celebrate his life: Such a Night (not to be confused – as Wikipedia does – with the Drifters/Elvis song of the same name.
Suggested Strumming
You can keep the strumming very simple. Either follow the guitar part and do down-strums on the off-beats. Or the organ and do down-strums on every beat. But I like to add a little variety and use this two bar pattern in the verse and chorus:
d – d – d – d –
d – d – d u d u
And then use two down-strums per chord in the middle until the little walk-up at the end where it’s one strum per chord.
Twiddly Bits
This tab combines the chords with the short organ riff at the end of the lines.
Links
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More 70s tabs and chords
Bonus: Dr John – Right Place, Wrong Time
