A Song For While I M Away chords by Thin Lizzy

Song: A Song for While I'm away
Artist: Thin Lizzy
Album: Vagabonds of the Western World (released: 9/1973)
Lyrics: Provided by www.sing365.com

Tuning: EADGBe (normal)

Hello all Thin Lizzy fans!

I was sitting in my room with my father's 30 year old acoustic and jamming to Thin Lizzy
(as I often do). A Song for While I'm away came up, and I thought to myself: "I can play
this song!" So I did, and here's the tab. Its a good "campfire song", if you know what I
mean. Hope you enjoy it! Btw. If you have any comments or corrections to my tab I wount
really care, cause I'm gonna play this tab anyway.

The song itself is quite easy. The guitarist plays this fingerpicking pattern, but I
havent bothered to tab it, because it sounds better if you play the chords (if you only
got one guitar). Thin Lizzy plays the whole thing with a big orchestra (or so it seems)
so they have a full sound, and if you dont play the chords, the sound will be uninteresting
and flat. The 2 riffs I have set up is optional. It sounds just a bit cool if you do them.
Riff1 is really played with 1 guitar and 1 bass, and at one place it is played by some
sort of violin (or something like that).

Riff2 is a riff for the bass guitar, but I like it, so I put it in there.

Intro:

    E     B      D    A     Am    E
e|-----7-----7-5---------5-----5-----4---------|
B|---9-----7-----7-----5-----5-----5---5---5-5-|
G|-9-----8---------7-6-----5-----4-------6-----|
D|---------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------|

Riff1:                       Riff2:

e|--------------------------|------------------|
B|--------------------------|------------------|
G|-1--2--2/4--2--1--2/4--1--|------------------|
D|-2--4--4/6--4--2--4/6--2--|--2---------------|
A|--------------------------|-----4--2---------|
E|--------------------------|-----------4--0---|


Intro x3

E**                             B
  These words I wrote, play and sing to you
D                                      A**
  Do not convey the love I brought and bring to you
Am                        E*
  For this is a song for while I'm away
   A*                      E            (Riff1)
To say all the things I'd love to say


            A5       G#5   F#5         E5         (Riff2)
You are my life, my everything, you're all I have
           C#5                  B5         A5
You are my hopes, my dreams, my world come true
F#5   E5          (Riff2)
You're all I have
               F#5       G#5     (F#5)   E5  (Riff2)
Please heed me now these words I have to say

Intro x3

Now I'm headed for the border
You see this song it ends right at the start
I swore when I was younger
No one would win my heart

Chorus x2

Intro x3

And far away hills look greener still
But soon they'll all slip away
It's then I'll be returning
And I'll be coming home to stay

Fade out while playing chorus.

Chords:

In the verse:

A*  x02225
A** 577655
B   799877
D   x57775
E   022100
E*  476454
E** x79997

In the chorus:

A5  x022xx
B5  x244xx
C#5 x466xx
E5  x022xx
F#5 244xxx
G#5 466xxx