Dancing In The Moonlight (It’s Caught Me In It’s Spotlight) chords by Thin Lizzy

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Dancing In The Moonlight (It’s Caught Me In It’s Spotlight) | Chords + Lyrics

Intro

| Em7 | D Bm | C (G/B) | G |
| Em7 | D Bm | C (G/B) | G N.C G | G N.C |

Verse 1

| Em | D | C | G (Gsus4) |
When I passed you in the doorway, well, you took me with a glance.
| Em | D | C | G (C G) |
I should’ve took that last bus home, but I asked you for a dance.
| Em | D | C | G (C G) |
Now we go steady to the pictures, I always get chocolate stains on my pants.
| Em | D | C | G |
And my father, he’s going crazy, he says I’m livin’ in a trance.

Chorus 1

| Em | D | C | G (Gsus4) |
But I’m dancing in the moonlight, it’s caught me in its spotlight (it’s alright, alright).
| Em | D | C | G N.C | N.C |
Dancing in the moonlight, on this long, hot summer night.

Verse 2

| Em | D | C | G (C G) |
It’s three o’clock in the morning, and I’m on the streets again.
| Em | D | C | G (C G) |
I disobeyed another warning, I should’ve been in by ten.
| Em | D | C | G (C G) |
Now I won’t get out until Sunday, I’ll have to say I stayed with friends.
| Em | D | C | G |
Oh, but it’s a habit worth forming, if it means to justify the end.

Chorus 2

| Em | D | C | G |
Dancing in the moonlight, it’s caught me in its spotlight (it’s alright, alright).
| Em | D | C | G N.C | N.C |
Dancing in the moonlight, on this long, hot summer night.

Verse 3

| Em | D | C | G |
And I’m walking home,
| Em | D | C | G |
the last bus has long gone.
| Em | D | C | G | Em | D | C | G N.C | N.C |
But I’m dancing in the moonlight.

Solo

||: Em | D | C | G :|| x4

Chorus 3

| Em | D | C | G |
Dancing in the moonlight, it’s caught me in its spotlight (it’s alright, alright).
| Em | D | C | G |
Dancing in the moonlight, on this long, hot summer night.

Outro

||: Em | D | C | G :|| x6
Dancing in the moonlight (I’m dancing in the moonlight) it’s caught me in its spotlight (it’s caught me in its spotlight).
Dancing in the moonlight (dancing in the moonlight), on this long, hot summer night (it’s got me hot).
Dancing in the moonlight (I’m dancing in the moonlight), it’s caught me in its spotlight (it’s caught me alright, alright, alright…).
Dancing in the moonlight (alright, alright, alright, alright), on this long, hot summer night (got so goddamn hot).
Dancing in the moonlight (I’m dancing), it’s caught me in its spotlight (I’m still dancing).
Dancing in the moonlight (I’m dancing in the moonlight), on this long, hot summer night.

Dancing In The Moonlight (It’s Caught Me In It’s Spotlight) chords and progressions

Thin Lizzy‘s Dancing In The Moonlight is clearly a completely different song to Toploader‘s cover of that old King Harvest hit, Throughout, the chords are almost only VI – V – IV – I.

||: Em | D | C | G :||

I’ve added some more chords for the intro, these basically include the bass line, which may be nice should you play this on your own.

Apart from the intro, the only variation is that over the G chord, you sometimes play Gsus4, or move from G – C/G – G.

I guess there are two questions to answer now if you’re looking for a life as a pro guitarist, which one does the band mean when they say: Let’s play Dancing In The Moonlight!

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Thin Lizzy

Formed by bass player Phil Lynott and drummer Brian Downey in 1969, Irish Thin Lizzy would become world famous.

Their best-known tunes include Whiskey In The Jar, The Boys Are Back In Town, Jailbreak, Don’t Believe A Word, and Dancing In The Moonlight.

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