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 album Last Sessions. The tab is based on Hurts guitar. The guitar is also tuned down a quarter, it is played between F# og G)

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G
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you          be    faith   -   ful    to   me?                      Is      


C                                     G
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your       heart good         and   true?


C                                     G
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While you sow    sorrow,            a - and    in    pain,


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Darling,    I'm    waiting    for    you.                            Because…


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D                                     G
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…give   you   be - fore       I      go



Chords (strumming version):


Waiting For You (I Forgive You Before I Go)

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
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