Level: 3
Tuning: Standard

Rev. Davis obviously loved playing standards. It seems like he always found the perfect key for his style of fingerpicking. Because it works out of the first position so much, it's very important that the sweetest, most convenient key be chosen. That's not to say that he couldn't play in flat keys, having worked out songs in the recorded keys. He starts out with an introduction that bears some resemblance to his version of Walkin' Dog Blues. It's F to C7 in the first position, first four bars. The following four bars he's up into the second position C7 and F, coming down with A7 forms C and Bb to the C7. This is, basically, repeated.

The song itself, the first melody note, starts on the low F base. The melody is picked up from there on the A, second fret G string. On the third beat of the second bar, he moves his thumb up a fret to the F# and plays the middle F#, with his little finger, fourth fret D string, neatly walking into the G7 chord, thumb now moved to the third fret and the seventh played on the third fret, D string. After the G7, he uses a C7 run to get back to F. After a bar of F he surprisingly walks down to Db, C position. The second time through goes to C on bar four, back to F and D minor. The song resolves from Bb, to C to F