How to Play a G Shape in Folky Songs

I first heard it too many years ago that I care to remember. When it first came out via Carol King on the tapestry album and at that time I thought it was a fantastic piece of music then. You just call that wonderful settle down onto a major seventh, which was absolutely taboo in folky circles at the beginning of the seventies. The other minor chord, another minor chord, and then here it comes. Soon I will be there. And you're down... Settle back and nothing's going right and then again that change. It's just a superb change.