Sweet Forgiveness Chords by Susan Tedeschi

[N] _ [Gb] All right, this next one is a song [Ab] _ on [Em] this new record I did.
I did all sorts of great songwriters.
[Eb] Some living, some dead, some new, some old.
And this one is by [Ab] a girl who's still out there.
She's a pretty young girl.
Her name's Iris DeMent,
and she wrote this song called Sweet Forgiveness.
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_ Sweet _ [Ab] forgiveness _ _ _ _ ♪
♪ That's what [Eb] you give to me _ _ ♪
♪ When [Ab] you hold me _ _ _ close and just say that's [Db] all alright _
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♪ You [Ab] won't go looking [Gm] _
_ [Fm] back _ [Eb] ♪
♪ You don't [Db] hold the cause [Fm] to [Bbm] your side _ [Ab] ♪
♪ [Eb] You mean what you say _ _ _ _ ♪
_ _ ♪ _ Sweet _ _ [Bbm] _
_ _ [Ab] _ forgiveness ♪
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♪ Oh [Eb] yeah, let me _ see _ _ _ ♪
♪ I'm [Ab] not near as _ bad _ as [Cm] I sometimes [Db] appear to be _ _ [Dbm] _ _ ♪
♪ [Ab] When you hold me [Gm] _
_ _ [Fm] close, [Eb] you say that's [Db] all [Cm] over ♪
[Bbm] _ _ [Eb] ♪ And I [Ab] still love you _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Db] ♪
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_ _ _ _ ♪ [Db] There's no way that I could make up _ [Ab] for those angry _ words you said _ _ ♪
[Db] ♪ Sometimes _ it gets [Cm] too hurting _ _ [Bbm] and the pain goes to [Eb] my _ head ♪
♪ Sweet _
_ _ [Ab] _ forgiveness, _
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_ _ [Eb] take care of her _ _ _ ♪
♪ I [Ab] said we are, _ we are the devotees of _ _ [Db] that _ kind of [Dbm] love ♪
♪ Somebody [Ab] _ _ hold [Gm] onto [Fm] your hand, [Eb] whisper [Db] _ I [Cm] understand _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Eb] ♪
♪ And I [Ab] still love you _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Db] _
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_ _ [Ebm] _ _ [Ab] Oh, there's [Db] no way that I could make up for [Ab] those _ angry words I said _ _ ♪
♪ [Db] Sometimes _ _ it gets [Cm] too hurting _ _ [Bbm] and the pain goes to [Eb] my _ head ♪
♪ Sweet _
_ _ [Ab] forgiveness, _ _
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_ [Ebm] _ _ take [Eb]
care of her ♪
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♪ I said _ _ we are, we are the [Cm] devotees of _ [Db] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dbm] that kind of love ♪
♪ _ [Ab] Somebody hold _ _ [Fm] onto your [Ab] hand, whisper [Db] I [Cm] understand _ _ [Bbm] ♪
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And I [Ab] still love you, _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Db] _
_ oh [Ab] _ yeah, _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Db] _
I [Ab] still love you _ ♪
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Yeah, [F] thank you so much.
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[E] How about it for this band everybody? _ _
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Back there on the drums, that's Aaron Turner. _ _
[Bb] _ _ On the bass guitar, that's Ron Perry. _ _ _ _
_ _ On the tenor saxophone, Ron [G] Holloway.
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On [Ab] guitar, _ [D] special appearance tonight, _ Doyle Vramhall.
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And on the B3 organ and piano and vocals, [E] that's William Green.
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