Waiting For You (I Forgive You Before I Go)
Mississippi John Hurt
tab by Torbjörn Nymo(metonymo @ mail . ru)
Standard tuning
(There are to guitars playing. The tab is based on Hurts guitar. The guitar is tuned
a quarter, between F# og G)
Intro
¾ : . . : . .
|-------3----------|------------------|
|------------------|-------0-----0----|
|---------------0--|-------0-----0----|
|------------------|------------------|
|------------------|------------------|
|-------------3----|-3----------------|
Vers Will
G
: . . : . . : . . : . .
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
|-------0-----0----|-------0-----0----|-------0-----0----|-------0----------|
|-------0-----0----|-------0-----0----|-------0-----0----|-------0----------|
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
|------------------|------------------|------------------|-------------2----|
|-3----------------|-3----------------|-3----------------|-3----------------|
you be faith - ful to me? Is
C G
: . . : . . : . . : . .
|------------------|------------------|-------3----(3)---|-------3----------|
|-------1-----1----|-------1----------|------------------|------------------|
|-------0-----0----|-------0-------0--|----------0-----0-|----------0-------|
|------------------|-------------2----|-------0-----0----|-------0-------0--|
|-3----------------|-3----------------|------------------|-------------2----|
|------------------|------------------|-3----------------|-3----------------|
your heart good and true?
[ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/m/mississippi-john-hurt/163067.html ]
C G
: . . : . . : . . : . .
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
|-------1-----1----|-------1----------|-------0-----0----|-------0-----0----|
|-------0-----0----|-------0-------0--|-------0-----0----|-------0-----0----|
|------------------|-------------2----|------------------|------------------|
|-3----------------|-3----------------|------------------|------------------|
|------------------|------------------|-3----------------|-3----------------|
While you sow sorrow, a - and in pain,
1.__________________________________________________________________________
D
: . . : . . : . . : . . .
|------------------|------------------|-------2-----2----|-1-----0----------|
|-------3-----3----|-------3-----3----|----------3-----3-|----3-------------|
|-------2-----2----|-------2-----2----|-------2-----2----|---------------0--|
|-0----------------|-0----------------|-0----------------|-0-----2s0--------|
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------3-----|
Darling, I'm waiting for you. Because…
2.__________________________________________________________________________
D G
: . . : . . : . . : . .
|------------------|------------------|-------3----------|------------------|
|-------3-----3----|-------3----------|------------------|-------0-----0----|
|-------2-----2----|-------2--------0-|----------0-----0-|-------0-----0----|
|-0----------------|-0-----------0----|-------0-----0----|------------------|
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
|------------------|------------------|-3----------------|-3----------------|
…give you be - fore I go
Chords (strumming version):
Waiting For You (I Forgive You Before I Go)
Mississippi John Hurt
G
Will you be faithful to me?
C G
Is your heart good and true?
C G
While you sow sorrow, and in pain,
D *(riff)
Darling, I'm waiting for you.
G
Because of your cruel ways,
C G
I may never live to know.
C G
In justice to my true love,
D G
I'll forgive you before I go.
rep. 1 & 2
instrumental 1 & 2
If we cannot meet again
Till our troubles all are through,
Beyond the river of Jordan,
I'll still be waiting for you.
rep. 2
instrumental 1 & 2
When you seek my grassy mount,
Then our trouble all is through.
My days have been shortened
Whilst I've been waiting for you.
rep. 2
*riff:
D G
. : . . :
---2--2--2-----1-----0----------|
---3--3--3-----3-----3----------|
---2--2--2----------------------|
---------------0-----2s0---0----|
---------------------------2----|
---------------------------3----|