Unforgiven Chords

KeyG CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays546

Unforgiven by Bap Kennedy is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Bap Kennedy- acoustic guitar, vocals 
Roy M. Huskey Jr.- upright bass 
Peter Rowan- mandolin, classical guitar 
Jerry Douglas- dobro 
Steve Earle- 12 string guitar 
Larry Atamanuik- drums 
Michael Smotherman- Hammond B-3 
 
I'm not sure the lyrics in the first line are correct. 
 
The rhythm of this song is a repeated  
G   D C G   D C  
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4  
 
Time:44 Capo-2 
 
Intro 
 G   D C  G   D C 
         X4 
 
G              D  C       G      D  C 
A train pulls in off the street	 
G             D     C        G        D  C 
Soft and low like a mother's heartbeat 
G           D             C         G      D  C 
I've been trying to get my mind off me 
G                 D         C              G      D  C 
But I'm more self conscious than I've ever been 
 
       G    D  C 
By the time 
        G    D  C 
You get this 
         G    D  C 
I'll be long gone 
             G    D  C 
God's my witness 
 
 G   D C  G   D C 
         
 
It's all there in black and white 
It's just the story of my life 
Well, you get it or you don't 
You're the only one I've ever told 
 
G    D  C 
By the time 
        G    D  C 
You get this 
         G    D  C 
I'll be long gone 
             G    D  C 
God's my witness 
           G    D  C 
And it's hard 
          G    D  C 
To keep living 
           G    D  C 
When I know I'm, 
         G    D  C 
not forgiven 
 
Still it comes, still it comes 
There's nothing else I could've done 
Not with the cards they've given me 
Do you think you'll ever forgive me? 
 
By the time 
You get this 
I'll be long gone 
God's my witness 
It's so hard  
to keep living  
when I know I'm 
not forgiven 
 
Hey 
I'm forgiven 
I'm forgiven 
I'm forgiven 
I'm forgiven 
 
(fade) 
 
 

    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante