Absent Friends Chords

by The Fureys
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Difficulty: beginner
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: 2nd fret
Author michael_admond [a] 66.
2 contributors total, last edit on Mar 22, 2024

Chords

G
D
Em
Bm
C

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[Chorus]
G          D                 Em                    Bm
Time heals wounds, they say. Time takes the pain away.
C        D            C           D
I wonder why it never happens for me.
     G               D            Em          Bm
It's years since you went away but I miss you night and day.
C              D       C         G
Why you had to go is a mystery to me.
 
 
[Verse]
G                     D            Em      Bm
What seemed important then becomes trivial when
C              D         C           D
Fate deals the card that forces your hand.
        G           D             Em            Bm
All the places we'd been, all the things we had seen,
   C           D           C         G
No more in the future; it just isn't planned.
 
 
[Verse]
G             D                 Em         Bm
It's all very strange, but when you went, I changed.
C                 D               C               G
It just seemed to happen with the passing of each day.
  G          D            Em        Bm
I don't understand. Is it part of a plan?
     C          D         C             G
Does one person grow when another fades away?
 
 
[Chorus]
G          D                 Em                  Bm
Time heals wounds, they say. Time takes the pain away.
C        D            C           D
I wonder why it never happens for me.
     G               D             Em         Bm
It's years since you went away but I miss you night and day.
C              D       C          G
Why you had to go is a mystery to me.
 
 
[Verse]
G                  D        Em          Bm
Small things you'd do weave pictures of you.
        C           D           C           D
They're printed for life on the back of my mind.
      G         D          Em            Bm
I was always so sure. Your life was so pure.
       C             D           C               G
To the faults and to bad times a loved one stays blind.
 
 
[Instrumental]
 
G  D  Em  Bm  C  D  C  G x2
 
 
[Verse]
G           D           Em           Bm
I always found that when you were around,
C              D             C            D
You helped me with worries and eased all my fears.
G           D            Em           Bm
You always had time for problems of mine,
C            D         C          G
A shoulder to cry on, a listening ear
 
 
[Chorus]
G          D                Em                    Bm
Time heals wounds, they say. Time takes the pain away.
C        D            C           D
I wonder why it never happens for me.
G                    D               Em        Bm
It's years since you went away but I miss you night and day.
C             D       C            G
Why you had to go is a mystery to me.
 
 
[Chorus]
G          D                 Em                    Bm
Time heals wounds, they say. Time takes the pain away.
C        D            C           D
I wonder why it never happens for me.
G                    D              Em         Bm
It's years since you went away but I miss you night and day.
C             D       C            G
Why you had to go is a mystery to me.
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7 comments
irishrm
I absofeckinlutely love this song and it's beautifully performed by the Fureys. Thank you
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bingaling
I play Am instead of the second C in the second line of the verses, "passing", "eased", etc. Both work. Thanks by the way, this is excellent.
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bainzee
on the second line of the chorus/verse should the chords be C,,D,,Am,,D
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