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Song: Roy Harper "Forever"
[Transcription by Gordon Walker <scogpw@thor.cf.ac.uk>]
This is something I haven't posted before I think - especially for you
finger-picking tab readers. I've never seen Roy play this, and wonder
exactly what he does becuase the way I do this, the harmonics at the end
don't work out (so I've left them out of this!).
I did have a version which was almost impossible to play in G (and you
needed very long fingers for!) for which the harmonics did work bt never
found a compromise. Roy well have played this on open tuning but that
makes it (a) incredibly boring to play and (b) the harmonics still don;t
work!
Gordon
--
Forever
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E|------------0---|2-----2---0-----|----------------|----------------| B|--0---3---------|----------------|3-------3-0-----|----------------| G|2---------------|----------------|----------------|2---------------| D|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-----------| A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| D|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0---4-2-|
We're spin -ning leaves in the flight of a dawn little
just
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| B|----0-3---0-2---|3---------------|0-----0---------|0-----0---------| G|--2-------------|----------------|--2^0-----2^0---|--2^0-----2^0---| D|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---| A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| D|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|
girl passing an et-ternal of
through hori zon
E|----------------|----------------| B|----0-3---0-2---|3---------------| G|--2-------------|----------------| D|----0-------0---|----0-------0---| A|----------------|----------------| D|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|
time
E|----------0-----|2-----------2---|3-----------2---|0---------------| B|--0---3---------|----------------|----------------|------------3---| G|2---------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| D|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---| A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| D|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|
But we sit here I'd like to think that
as
E|0^2---0---------|----------------|----------------|----------------| B|----------3-----|0-----3---0-----|--3-------------|----------------| G|----------------|----------------|2---------------|----------------| D|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-----------| A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| D|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0---4-2-|
all got will be ours for - ev-er
we've
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| B|----0-3---0-2---|3---------------|0-----0---------|0-3-------------| G|--2-------------|----------------|--2^0-----2^0---|----------------| D|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---| A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| D|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|
don't think for-ev-er?
you we're
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| B|----0-3---0-2---|3---------------|0-----0---------|0-3-------------| G|--2-------------|----------------|--2^0-----2^0---|----------------| D|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---| A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| D|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|
don't think for-ev-er?
you we're
E|----------------|----------------| B|----0-3---0-2---|3---------------| G|--2-------------|----------------| D|----0-------0---|----0-------0---| A|----------------|----------------| D|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|
coda
E|5---------5-----|4---------4-----|3---------3-----|2---------3-----| B|--6-------------|--5-------------|--4-------------|--3-------------| G|------5---------|------4---------|------3---------|------2---------| D|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---| A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| D|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|
(F/D) (E/D) (Eb/D) D
E|5---------5-----|4---------4-----|3---------3-----|2---------3-----| B|--6-------------|--5-------------|--4-------------|--3-------------| G|------5---------|------4---------|------3---------|------2---------| D|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---| A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| D|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|
(play each of the next bars twice:)
E|3---------3-----|2---------2-----|----------------|------2---------| B|--4-------------|--3-------------|2-----2---------|--3-----3-----3-| G|------3---------|------2---------|--2-------2-----|2---2-----2-----| D! D|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----2-------2---|----0-------0---| A|----------------|----------------|0---------------|----------------| D|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|--------0-------|0-------0-------|
Don't ever let.. little girl.. ..oh no....
(fit in above "Don't ever let me go little girl.....oh no...." )
last bar may be wrong fingerings - basically this is just D to finish!
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