Lady Day by Lou Reed Lyric and Guitar Chords

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If you are looking for Lady Day guitar chords, you’ve come to the right place.
You can play Lady Day by Lou Reed using guitar or guitar.
This song by Lou Reed can also be played by that instruments.
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Lady Day guitar chords has rhythm and included in Berlin (1973) album.
You can also find another musical genres, including jazz guitar chords, country music guitar chords, pop guitar chords, world music guitar chords, and rock guitar chords here.

Lady Day by Lou Reed Guitar Chords


(verse 1)
When she walked on down the street


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She was like a child staring at her feet


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But when she passed the bar and she


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heard the music play she had to


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go in and sing It had to be that way


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She had to go in and sing it had to be that way


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(chorus)
And I said no, no, no oh, la—–dy Day


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And I said no, no, no oh, la—–dy Day


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(bridge)


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(verse 2)
After the applause had died down


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and the people drifted away


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she climbed down off the bar and went


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out the door to


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the ho—tel that she called “home”.


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it had greenish walls a bathroom in the hall


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(chorus)

If you want to learn Lou Reed Lady Day guitar chords, The 5 chords we’ll look at are the C major, A major, G major, E major, and D major.
The reason we use all major chords is that the minor versions of any of these chords just require tiny adjustments.
Each one of those minor chords is completely based on its major counterpart

The more you practice, the easier guitar will feel to play Lady Day. Guitar is hard to learn in the beginning, but gets easier the longer you stick with it.

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