'The Night Comes Down' by Queen - Guitar Tutorial

            

THE NIGHT COMES DOWN
 (Freddie Mercury/Queen.  From the 1st, self-titled albumn.)
 
 The real intro is some wild stuff around an Em that is well
 beyond my abilities.  After enough Em improv it crashes into a B7
 (I think).  Then the intro below.  Most of the verse material is
 light chops down (/).
 
 Chords:  C# = xx4121, C#7 = x4342x, Dmaj7 = xx0222
 
 
 Intro:  Am  Em   D  C#  A    Dmaj7 / / / / / / /
 
 Dmaj7      D7       G       D         G             C           D
 When I was young it came to me, and I could see the sun breaking
 Dmaj7    D7         G     Bm  Am        D           C#7      A7
 Lucy was high, and so was I,  dazzling, holding the world inside
 Dmaj     D7        G          Gm             D  
 Once I believed in everyone, everyone and anyone can see
 
 [Chorus:]
 G   A    D     G     D     Bm  F#m     G        F#m       D7
 Oh   the night comes down, and I get afraid, of losing my way
 G   A    D     G     D   F#m,G,F#m,Em7         A7         
 Oh the night comes down, Oh           and it`s dark again
 
 Dmaj7 
 
 
 Once I could laugh with everyone, once I could see the good in me
 The black and the white distinctively, coloring, holding the
      world inside
 Now all the world is grey to me, nobody can see 
 (you gotta believe it)
 
 [Chorus, ending:]
 
 Em7        A7
   and it`s dark again
 Em7        A7         Em  (more ad-libbing,
   and it`s dark again      blending into "Good King Rat")
 
 
 submitted by:
 Ted Hermary
 czth@musica.mcgill.ca