* Song: * Album: * Version: * Interpretation: * Tuning: * Notes: Forgiveness Salty Heaven 1 / 1 Paul Brightbill (pbrightbill@yahoo.com) CGCFGC (DADGAD but tuned a full step lower) 1) During Intro, quiver your left hand to bend the strings and produce the "wavey" sound 2) Basic picking pattern is illustrated below - chord Dm(2). The root note is plucked on a downstroke, all other notes are plucked on upstrokes. 3) During the Chorus (A stor mo chroi, etc) Luka plays the Dsus4 and D(1) by first strumming an upstroke across all 6 strings very close to the bridge of the guitar to produce "tingy" sound.

Forgiveness

 Picking pattern:
C ---12--------12------------12---------12------------
G ------0---------0--------------0---------0----------
F ---------10-------10--------------10---------10-----
C ----------------------0--------------------------0--
G ----------------------------------------------------
C -0-----------------------0--------------------------

Chords:
         C--G--C--F--G--C

Dm(1)    x--x--0-14--0-15
A7sus4   x--0--0-12--0-14
A#6-5    x-13--0--0-13-12
Dm(2)    0--0--0-10--0-12
D7sus2   0--0--0--9--0-10
Db6-3    0--0--0--7--0--8
D(1)     0--5--0--7--0--7
Dsus4    0--5--0--0--0--7
D(2)     0-12--0-11--0--0
D6sus4   0-14--0-12--0--0
Bm7      9--9--9--7--0--0
Aadd11   7--7--7--6--0--0
Gadd9    5--5--5--4--0--0



INTRO:
Dm(1)
---15-------15--------|---15-------14--12----14-|
------0--------0----0-|------0------------------|
--------14------------|--------14---------------|
-0---------------0----|-0-----------------0-----|
----------------------|-------------------------|
----------------------|-------------------------|

A7sus4
---14-------14--------|--14-------14------------|
------0--------0----0-|-----0--------0----------|
--------12-------12---|-------12-------12-------|
----------------------|-------------------0-----|
-0--------------------|-0-----------------------|
----------------------|-------------------------|

A#6-5    
------------0---------|----0------14-14---14----|
------13------13------|------13-----------------|
----0----0-------0----|---------0-------0-------|
--------------------0-|-------------------------|
-13-------------------|-13----------------------|
----------------------|-------------------------|

Dm(2)     
---14------12---------|---12-------12-----------||
------0-------0-------|------0--------0---------||
--------10------10----|--------10-------10-----:||
-------------------0--|--------------------0---:||
----------------------|-------------------------||
-0--------------------|-0-----------------------||

Dm(2)                               D7sus2        
Walking, wounded children lined the roads about the town
Db6-3                            D(1)
Aging little faces full of need
Dm(2)                                    D7sus2
Who never should have suffered from this hunger
Db6-3                                        D(1)
There's a better world to go to, I believed

Before our journey to Canada
My love and I were married in the town
One day of freedom from the anguish 
We sang and danced with friends from all around

Dsus4                         D(1)
A stor mo chroi I'll always love you    (See Note 3)
Dsus4                         D(1)
A stor mo chroi I'll always love you

On an overcrowded ship we crossed the ocean
Many found their graveyard in that sea
Those who set their dreams on a life in Canada
Surrendered to the fate that was to be
Finally my true love's heart was broken
In a fever shed in Canada she died
Though I will assist my fellow countrymen
There is nothing only emptiness inside

A stor mo chroi I'll always love you
A stor mo chroi I'll always love you

All my fear of dying dissipated 
Now I'm simply waiting for the end 
Before I'm laid to rest in Canada 
I'll bring some comfort to my Irish friends 
Talk to them of better days behind us 
Before a brutal power put us down 
I'll sing until the reaper comes to take me 
To the love that lies waiting in the ground

A stor mo chroi I'll always love you
A stor mo chroi I'll always love you
        I'll always love you

TRANSITION - (Fade in D(1) chord full strum)

D(2)        D6sus4    D(2)        D6sus4
I open up my eyes to the sunlight shining new
D(2)        D6sus4        D(2)            D6sus4
In the dream that takes me back a single word rings through
D(2)        D6sus4    D(2)        D6sus4
My memories awaken to the horrors come to pass
D(2)        D6sus4            D(2)        D6sus4
One word in the morning light brings freedom home at last

Bm7    Aadd11    Gadd9        Aadd9
        Forgiveness
Bm7    Aadd11    Gadd9        Aadd9
        Forgiveness

For the ancient wounds still hurting for the wrongs I've never known
For all the children left to die near fields where corn was grown
Like the ones who braved the ocean in the fever sheds to burn
Let all the hatred leave these shores now never to return

        Forgiveness
        Forgiveness