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This is for life
Riverside
1 / 1
Thomas Reiter (mail goes via Stefan Schwabe!)
D A D F# A D (Dmaj tuning)
The song is inspired by Paul Hill of the Guildford Four (wrongly
convicted alleged IRA bombers). It's not exactly what Luka plays,
but the sound is close to the original. The "s" in the Bm chord for
the verses means: slide.
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This is for life
"/" or "\" means: slide up or down.
The picking is something like this:
D F#m
D ----0-----0-------+...+---0-----0------+----0-----0-------
A ------0-----0-----+...+-----0-----0----+------0-----0-----
F# ----------------8-+...+----------------+----------------3-
D --------------7---+...+----------------+--------------4---
A --------5---------+...+-------5--------+--------4---------
D --0---------------+...+-0-----------7-\+--4---------------
In the Verse play the Bm like this:
Bm
D --0--0--0----0--0-----0---+
A --0--0--0----0--0-----0---+
F# --8-----7/8----10--8--8---+
D --9-----------------------+
A --9-----------------------+
D --9-----------------------+
D F#m
She met her love in an English prison cell
Bm G
He looked so tired on their wedding day
D F#m
Visitors hours, so the time flew by
Bm G G / A A
Before they parted, heard each other say
tacet D F#m
This is for life, for me
D F#m
This is for life, for me
Bm A G
He said if love walks on beaches
What am I to do ?
Bm A G
If love talks in soft whispers
What am I to do
Bm A G
Lovers gaze at sunsets
G / A
What am I to do
A
What am I to do
tacet D F#m
This is for life, for me
D F#m G A
This is for life, for me
D G
She sends soul kisses to that moonless place
D G
She's a time keeper, she knows he will come home
D G
She's a lighthouse, he looks for her in his mind's eye
A HammerOnTo A4 A
Just to hear her say
This is for life, for me
This is for life, for me
This is for life
This is for life
