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Forty days of rain - Roddy Frame
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Tabbed by: Robert McMillan
E-mail: mcmillan_ra (at) hotmail.com
Tuning: Standard
Capo Fret 1, Everything relative to that
See the end for meaning of the [*] below.
Intro
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C F Am
C F Am
Verse
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C
In the spring, when this thing began,
I was down, a dying man
F
And as I died and decayed, I pushed her away
Am
saying "why don’t you stay"?
Verse
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C
Days turned to dust and my heart ran dry,
A compromise was a tooth for an eye,
F
I was under a spell, how could I tell,
Am
The truth from the lies.
Bridge
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F Am
And could this wretch really be restored,
F Em G7
I went out west, and the rain it poured
F
And there appeared a king,
G G7
And he held his sword, over me.
Chorus
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Am
40 days of rain
F C
Washed it away, Washed it away
G Am
I knew I'd never be the same again
F
I was lost, but I'm found,
C
lost but I'm found
G7 Am
And until I felt the joy and the pain
F
I used to pray for the sun
C
to turn the night into day
G7 G#dim* Am
And now I kneel and feel the frost on the ground
F
And I rise and I pray,
C G G7
Rise and I pray, Rise and I pray
Harmonica solo (same as intro)
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C F Am
C F Am
Verse
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C
I kinda had a bad idea,
I slipped into my deepest fear
F
My room one oh one, the end of the run
Am
The worst thing I'd ever done
Verse
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C
I couldn’t get the pin back in
CMaj7 **
Where did it end and where did I begin
F
I tried to call it a day, day after day
Am
Bridge
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F Am
And could this wretch, really be restored
F Em G7
I went out west seeking for the sun and the rain in poured
F
And there appeared a king,
G G7
and he held his sword over me.
Chorus
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Am
40 days of rain
F C
Washed it away, Washed it away
G Am
I knew I'd never be the same again
F
I was lost, but I'm found,
C
lost but I'm found
G7 Am
And until I felt the joy and the pain
F
I used to pray for the sun
C
to turn the night into day
G7 G#dim* Am***
I found forgiveness on the back of a bay
And I rise and I pray,
Rise and I pray, Rise and I pray
Outro
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F
Rise and Pray, Rise and Pray,
C G7
And I fall and I pray, I Rise and Pray,
Am
And I fall and I pray,
F C
'Cause I was lost but Im found, Lost but I'm found,
G7 Am
Lost but I'm found, I was lost but I'm found,
F C
Lost but I'm found, Lost but I'm found,
G7 C
Lost but I'm found, I was lost but I'm found.
Notes:
[*] G#dim played after G7, use the chords:
G7: 353433
G#dim: 456464
I am not 100% sure that's what it is - but it sounds OK - it seems what he plays
watching youtube vids of it.
You can just stick with G7 and it sounds OK too.
[**] He certainly does this live
[***] Let ring, then no chord or repeat the F, C, G
Am sequence (he does that live).
