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From: Idar "Chocolate stains" Wiik (Cheabz) (idarwiik@hotmail.com)
Song: A Song for While I'm away
Artist: Thin Lizzy
Album: Vagabonds of the Western World (released: 9/1973)
Lyrics: Provided by www.sing365.com
Tuning: EADGBe (normal)
Hello all Thin Lizzy fans!
I was sitting in my room with my father's 30 year old acoustic and jamming to Th
A Song for While I'm away came up, and I thought to myself: "I can play this son
Its a good "campfire song", if you know what I mean. Hope you enjoy it!
Btw. If you have any comments or corrections to my tab I wount really care, caus
The song itself is quite easy. The guitarist plays this fingerpicking pattern, b
because it sounds better if you play the chords (if you only got one guitar). Th
with a big orchestra (or so it seems) so they have a full sound, and if you dont
uninteresting and flat. The 2 riffs I have set up is optional. It sounds just a
really played with 1 guitar and 1 bass, and at one place it is played by some so
Riff2 is a riff for the bass guitar, but I like it, so I put it in there.
Intro:
E B D A Am E
e|-----7-----7-5---------5-----5-----4---------|
B|---9-----7-----7-----5-----5-----5---5---5-5-|
G|-9-----8---------7-6-----5-----4-------6-----|
D|---------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------|
Riff1: Riff2:
e|--------------------------|------------------|
B|--------------------------|------------------|
G|-1--2--2/4--2--1--2/4--1--|------------------|
D|-2--4--4/6--4--2--4/6--2--|--2---------------|
A|--------------------------|-----4--2---------|
E|--------------------------|-----------4--0---|
Intro x3
E** B
These words I wrote, play and sing to you
D A**
Do not convey the love I brought and bring to you
Am E*
For this is a song for while I'm away
A* E (Riff1)
To say all the things I'd love to say
A5 G#5 F#5 E5 (Riff2)
You are my life, my everything, you're all I have
C#5 B5 A5
You are my hopes, my dreams, my world come true
F#5 E5 (Riff2)
You're all I have
F#5 G#5 (F#5) E5 (Riff2)
Please heed me now these words I have to say
Intro x3
Now I'm headed for the border
You see this song it ends right at the start
I swore when I was younger
No one would win my heart
Chorus x2
Intro x3
And far away hills look greener still
But soon they'll all slip away
It's then I'll be returning
And I'll be coming home to stay
Fade out while playing chorus.
Chords:
In the verse:
A* x02225
A** 577655
B 799877
D x57775
E 022100
E* 476454
E** x79997
In the chorus:
A5 x022xx
B5 x244xx
C#5 x466xx
E5 x022xx
F#5 244xxx
G#5 466xxx