I'LL FORGET YOU
Written by Lior and Ben Fink
4 beats per chord (swing sixteenths)
` = 2 beats
' = 1 beat
_ = hold Beat-1
Alternate tuning DADABD
Tune down one semitone to match the key of the recording.
Several chords are voiced without thirds. G6 Gmaj7 F6 Em7 Dmaj7 C6/9
String arrangement adds notes. Names reflect overall tonality.
The soundbyte available on this site is an edit of the original recording
slowed down to 75% speed for practising.
INTRO:
Dadd2 Dadd2 Dadd2 Dadd2
I
VERSE:
Dadd2 Dadd2 Dadd2 Dadd2
Left you out in-side my heart how easily this could be the
G6 `Gmaj7 `G6 Dadd2 Dadd2
Start and rip my life apart like a
VERSE:
Dadd2 Dadd2 Dadd2 Dadd2
Bowerbird col-lecting blue see me gather words to let you
G6 `Gmaj7 `G6 Dadd2 `Dadd2 ' 'D6/F#
Know it's hard to let this go
CHORUS-SHORT:
F6 Em7_
But I'm making up my mind I'll forget you in
LINK-1:
Dadd4 Bm7 Dmaj11 Gadd9 Gadd9
Time you
VERSE:
Dadd2 Dadd2
Still make me cry like a song of the east that
Dadd2 Dadd2
Loses its centre but always finds its way back
G6 `Gmaj7 `G6 Dadd2 `Dadd2 ' 'D6/F#
Home oh how this bird has flown
CHORUS:
F6 Em7 `D5 `Dmaj7 `Dsus2 ' 'D/F#
So I'm making up my mind I'm gonna res- cue my-___ self to-night__
F6 Em7_
Yeah I'm making up my mind I'll forget you in
LINK-2:
`C6/9 `Gadd2/B D
Time______________
`C6/9 `Gadd2/B D
Ooh_______________
`C6/9 Gmaj7/B
(2/4 bar) I am
BRIDGE: (2 beats per chord)
D D/C# D/B D/A
Leaving you you are leaving me we've
D D/C# D/B D/A
Sung our song and we chose to roll on al-
D D/C# D/B D/A
though this love never fades it's time
D D/C# D11/C G/B
To for-get the road
Gm/Bb Gm(9)/Bb D/A 'A7sus4 'A7 D ' 'D6/F#
We_____________ never tra- velled a-long
CHORUS:
F6 Em7 `D5 `Dmaj7 `Dsus2 ' 'D/F#
So I've made up my mind I'm gonna res- cue my-___ self to-night__
F6 Em7_
Yeah I've made my mind I'll forget you in
CODA: (three times)
`C6/9 `Gadd2/B D
Time______________
ENDING:
`C6/9 `Gadd2/B ' Bb(#4) D_
Time_______________________
(---five beats---)