Level: 2/3
Tuning: Standard

Recorded in one take for the 1969 "Nashville Skyline" album, "Lay Lady Lay" is more "pop" than most Dylan songs, and it has an appealing descending chord progression that sticks in your head. It was the second album Dylan recorded in Nashville, preceded by 1967's "John Wesley Harding." The fingerpicking in this key-of-G version of "Lay Lady Lay" suits the song's unusual rhythm. It features a typical alternating thumb-bass, and the G pull-off fill, a suspended lick, echoes a similar fill that is strummed on the original recording. There are a few up-the-neck chords in the instrumental solo (a partial D chord and a G6, both at the 5th fret), and some moveable chords ascend the fretboard at the end of the tune.