Ben Harper - Waiting For An Angel
MP3
Intro
C Amin7
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Verse:
3 Times... ...�
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Waiting.... on..... an angel.........
One...... to carry me... home..........
Hope you come and see.... me soon Cos I
Repeat... ...�
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don't wanna go alone
There isn't a chorus after the first first, so you just loop back to start
the next verse:
Now angel, won't you come round here
Angel hear my plea
Take my hand and lift me up
So that I can fly with thee
The guitar part for the last line is sightly different, to lead into the
chorus:
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I can fly with thee
Chorus:
4 Times... ...�
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Waiting on an angel And I
know it won't be long To
find myself a resting place
In my angel's arms
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In my angel's arms
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-Intro/Verse-play 3x then variation in veerses
Bb A/Bb maj7 Gm F
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This is another Ben Harper song. It is in the key of G minor.
For lead I would follow then pentatonic, adding the 2nd, which is the A.
This song is in � time, which gives it that waltz feel.
Here is both the tab and the chord progression. The tab is
the way to play the progression. Here is the tab.
Figure I
Bb A/Bbmaj7 Gmin F
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1 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 3 +
Figure II
Beginning of
Figure 1
Gmin A/Dmin Bb
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1 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 3 +
The intro is Figure 1, and so is the verse, this song doesnt
really have a chorus. It changes to Figure II on the last line
of every stanza, which is the fifth line.
Figure I
Waiting on an angel
Figure I
One to carry me home
Figure I
Hope you come to see me soon
Figure I
Cause I don't want to go alone
Figure II
I don't want to go alone
With the chord changes the words look like this:
Bb A/Bbmaj7 Gmin F
Now angel won't you come by me
Bb A/Bbmaj7 Gmin F
Angel hear my plea
Bb A/Bbmaj7 Gmin F
Take my hand lift me up
Bb A/Bbmaj7 Gmin F
So that I can fly with thee
Gmin A/Dmin Bb
So that I can fly with thee
That is the song.
See you next week.
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Waiting on an angel, one to carry me home, hope you come to see me soon cause
I don't want to go alone I don't want to go alone
Now angel won't you come by me angel hear my plea take my hand lift
me up so that I can fly with thee so that I can fly with thee
And I'm waiting on an angel and I know it won't be long to find myself
a resting place in my angel's arms in my angel's arms
So speak kind to a stranger cause you'll never know it just might
be an angel come knockin' at your door knockin' at your door
And I'm waiting on an angel and I know it won't be long to find myself
a resting place in my angel's arms in my angel's arms
Waiting on an angel one to carry me home hope you come to see me soon
cause I don't want to go alone I don't want to go alone don't want to go
I don't want to go alone