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Guitar Chords & Tab: Beside You

 

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Song: Beside You
Artist: Dave Dobbyn
Album: The Islander

Tabbed by Ben Barrett (ben_barrett@hotmail.com)

This version was taken off the live set which Dave did at the Helen Young Studios so all
apologies for any mistakes or differences.

Capo on 1st fret!!


Intro x2             then  

 F?        C                C   F?  G? 
--------3----3----         ---3---3---3---------
-------1-----1----         ---1---1---1---------
----0h2------0----         ---0---2---0---------
-0h3--------2-----         ---2---3---0---------
---------0h3------         -3---0-----2---------
------------------         ---------3-----------
                           (this strum pattern is 
                           used during verses too)


Verse 1

F?             C
Here's to your garden
F?             C
Here's to your kids
  F?                    C
I heard you were in the neighbourhood
           C          F?     G?
I've been a long time on the skids
    F?   C   F?     C
And baby I'm beside you
    F?           C             C        F?   G? 
You run from the river when it long ran over you


Verse 2

F?              C
This is for you standing 
F?                    C
up to a bone chilling wind
F?              C            C         F?      G?
This is for the failures you collected from my sins
F?                   C        F?            C
And this is for your lonesome tears I never dried
F?               C                 C         F?       G?             
This is for your hanging in in the hope that it never dies


Chorus

Dm           Am     G?
And baby I'm beside you
Dm                             Am            G?
You run from the river when it long ran over you- Yeah


Verse 3

F?              C
This is for you waiting up 
F?                    C
though the call never came
F?                    C              C         F?       G?
For the milk of human kindnesses you collected from our dream
F?                   C        F?            C
And this is for your lonesome tears I never dried
F?               C                 C         F?       G?             
This is for your hanging in in the hope that it never dies


Chorus

Dm           Am     G?
And baby I'm beside you
Dm                             Am            G?
You run from the river when it long ran over you- Yeah
    G?         C         Am     G?
And now I'm running here beside you 
    G?         C         Am     G?
And now I'm running here beside you


Verse 4

F?              C
This is for the traveller 
F?                   C
on a blinding desert road
F?                      C           C       F?        G?
Good fortune smile upon you and may love be your only load
F?                       C           
And this is for the only one 
F?                         C
who could quell my burning rage
F?                            C          C        F?     G?
To anyone who's been a broken man and anyone seen better days


Outro

    G?         C         Am     G?
And now I'm running here beside you 
    G?         C         Am     G?
And now I'm running here beside you
    G?         C         Am     G?
And now I'm running here beside you 
    G?         C         Am     G?
And now I'm running here beside you



Chord shapes

 F?   C    G?   Dm   Am
-3----3----3----1----3-----
-1----1----1----3----1-----
-2----0----0----2----2-----
-3----2----0----0----2-----
-0----3----2---------0-----
-----------3---------------


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