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Forty Days Of Rain

Biography:

Roddy Frame (born January 29, 1964 in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland) is the founder of the 1980s Scottish indie band, Aztec Camera. They released their first album, High Land, Hard Rain, when Frame was aged nineteen. It spawned the hit single Oblivious, and Aztec Camera were recognised as one of the key acts on Glasgow's Postcard record label, along with Orange Juice and Josef K.

Frame later signed to Rough Trade. Aztec Camera's biggest hit was 1987's Somewhere In My Heart

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Forty days of rain - Roddy Frame
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Tabbed by: Robert McMillan
E-mail: mcmillan_ra (at) hotmail.com

Tuning: Standard

Capo Fret 1, Everything relative to that

See the end for meaning of the [*] below.

Intro
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C F Am
C F Am

Verse
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C
In the spring, when this thing began,
I was down, a dying man
F
And as I died and decayed, I pushed her away
Am
saying "why don’t you stay"?

Verse
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C
Days turned to dust and my heart ran dry,
A compromise was a tooth for an eye,
F
I was under a spell, how could I tell,
Am
The truth from the lies.

Bridge
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F Am
And could this wretch really be restored,
F Em G7
I went out west, and the rain it poured
F
And there appeared a king,
G G7
And he held his sword, over me.

Chorus
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Am
40 days of rain
F C
Washed it away, Washed it away
G Am
I knew I'd never be the same again
F
I was lost, but I'm found,
C
lost but I'm found
G7 Am
And until I felt the joy and the pain
F
I used to pray for the sun
C
to turn the night into day
G7 G#dim* Am
And now I kneel and feel the frost on the ground
F
And I rise and I pray,
C G G7
Rise and I pray, Rise and I pray

Harmonica solo (same as intro)
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C F Am
C F Am

Verse
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C
I kinda had a bad idea,
I slipped into my deepest fear
F
My room one oh one, the end of the run
Am
The worst thing I'd ever done

Verse
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C
I couldn’t get the pin back in
CMaj7 **
Where did it end and where did I begin
F
I tried to call it a day, day after day
Am

Bridge
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F Am
And could this wretch, really be restored
F Em G7
I went out west seeking for the sun and the rain in poured
F
And there appeared a king,
G G7
and he held his sword over me.

Chorus
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Am
40 days of rain
F C
Washed it away, Washed it away
G Am
I knew I'd never be the same again
F
I was lost, but I'm found,
C
lost but I'm found
G7 Am
And until I felt the joy and the pain
F
I used to pray for the sun
C
to turn the night into day
G7 G#dim* Am***
I found forgiveness on the back of a bay

And I rise and I pray,

Rise and I pray, Rise and I pray

Outro
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F
Rise and Pray, Rise and Pray,
C G7
And I fall and I pray, I Rise and Pray,
Am
And I fall and I pray,
F C
'Cause I was lost but Im found, Lost but I'm found,
G7 Am
Lost but I'm found, I was lost but I'm found,
F C
Lost but I'm found, Lost but I'm found,
G7 C
Lost but I'm found, I was lost but I'm found.

Notes:

[*] G#dim played after G7, use the chords:

G7: 353433
G#dim: 456464

I am not 100% sure that's what it is - but it sounds OK - it seems what he plays
watching youtube vids of it.

You can just stick with G7 and it sounds OK too.

[**] He certainly does this live

[***] Let ring, then no chord or repeat the F, C, G
Am sequence (he does that live).