Saturday Sun

by Nick Drake

Transcribed by Nick Gill (Number6@mindless.com)

6/8 time

Harlan L Thompson's <harlant@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> version (the one I've

seen nearly everywhere) isn't actually

correct. The D7/F# chord is actually an F# diminished (XX1212), and some of the

Fs are really Dm7/F. Pedantic, I know, but it sounds better and is more

accurate. So, the real version goes like this.

"Lead in" | G |

Intro verse | C | G | Am | C |

Verse 1 (as intro verse)

Verse 2 (as intro verse)

Verse 3 (as intro verse)

Verse 4 | C | G | Am | C |

Chorus1 | F | F#o | C | A |

| Dm7 / F | G | C | C7 |

Inter-verse | F | G |

Verse 5 (as intro verse)

Verse 6 (as verse 5)

Chorus2 (as Chorus1)

Rubato chorus | F | F#o | C | A |

| Dm7 / F | G | F | C |

Verse1

Saturday sun came early one morning

In a sky so clear and blue

Verse2

Saturday sun came without warning

So no-one knew what to do.

Verse3

Saturday sun brought people and faces

That didn't seem much in their day

Verse4

But when I remember those people and places

They were really too good in their way

Chorus1

In their way, in their way

But Saturday sun won't come and see me today

Inter-verse

Verse5

Think about stories with reason and rhyme

Circling through your brain

And think about people in their season and time

Returning again and again

Chorus2

And again, and again

But Saturday's sun has turned to Sunday's rain

Rubato chorus

So Sunday sat in the Saturday sun

And wept for a day gone by

As Harlan says, it's played on a piano, glockenspiel, contrebasse and voice with

not a guitar in sight. Nevertheless, it's quite possible to give a fair

rendition of it on a single guitar.

If you have any comments / suggestions / corrections / requests et caetera,

please mail me.

Be seeing you.

Number6@mindless.com