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When Day Is Done

Words by G. G. DeSylva, Music by Dr. Robt. Katscher - 1926

Verse:
Gm             Eb	-	Gm           Eb7	-
Gm            Eb7	-	D7	-
Gm	Bb	-               Dm	Bb
Adim	-	D7            G7	C7          F7
Chorus:
Bb	A7	F7	-
-	-	Bb            Dm	Bb
-	G7	C7	-
F7	A7	Bb            C#7	F7
Bb	A7	F7	-
-	-	D7	-
Bb9	Ab           Bb+	Gm	D7
G7             F#7	Eb            F7	Bb	-       (F7 to chorus)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Verse:

Since you've gone away,  One thing is clear to me,

You were dearer than dear to me,  From the moment you came.

Evenings, by your side,  I learn'd to love the night,

But the loveliness of the night is no longer the same.

 

Chorus:

When Day Is Done and shaddows fall,  I dream of you,

When Day Is Done I think of all the joys we knew.

That yearning returning to hold you in my arms,

Won't go love,  I know love without you night has lost its charm.

When Day s Done and grass is wet with twilight's dew,

My lonely heart is sinking like the sun.

Al-though I miss your tender kiss the whole day through,

I miss you most of all When Day Is Done.
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Watch Eddie Davis perform "When Day Is Done" on the tenor banjo (youtube)

 

Watch Sean Moyses play "When Day Is Done" on the plectrum banjo (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com