Can I Forgive Him Chords & Lyrics Artist: Paul Simon

       E A D G B e
D/C#:  x 4 0 2 2 x
Abdim: x x 0 1 0 1
Fm6:   x x 3 1 3 1
E:     0 2 2 1 0 0
D#m:   x 6 8 8 7 6
D#(b9):x 6 8 9 8 6
 
INTRO
Bb
 
VERSE 1
Bb           F   Gm   Dm Dmmaj7
   I am esmeraa-lda agron
  Dm7  Dm6
Seno - ra
G                Dmaj  D/C#     Bm7  Cmaj7
  I know I've no ri  - ght to speak
Gmaj7        F#m            Bm7
  My son is not the savage boy you see
E                  Em  Bm7
  The cape, the sneer
D                 Dm
  The slicked-back hair
   Bbmaj              A7         Dm  Dmmaj7
It hides the child i nursed and bathed
  Dm7  Dm6
Seno - ra
 G                     Dmaj D/C#
Please don't turn your eyes
     Bm7 Cmaj7
From me
Gmaj         F#m              Bm7          B7sus
  Your son, gone to god, and mine to blame
E           Em  Bm7
  My fated son
D            Dm
  He too is gone
     Bbmaj             A7         Dm  Dmmaj7
The state will see to that, i am sure
Dm7   Dm6
 Senora
     Bb                C       F
The state will see to that, i am sure
 
BREAK
F Fm Ab
 
BRIDGE
Abdim
      You spanish people, you come to this country
 Cm7                             Bbm
Nothing here changes your lives
Fm                        Fm7
  Ungrateful immigrants asking for pity
     Abdim
When all of your answers are knives
Fm6                         D#m        D#(b9)
  This city makes a cartoon of a crime
 G#m7                     Abdim           Cm
Capes and umbrellas the glorification of slime
Bbm                    D#       D#aug
  I have to face this horror, senora
G#7         G#
My religion
Fm7          Faug        D#/Bb
Asks me to pray for the murderer's soul
C#                   D#
  But i think you'd have to be
C#       D#
  Jesus on the cross
C#                               G#
  To open your heart after such a loss
 
CHORUS
C#         D#
  Can i forgive him?
C#         D#
  Can i forgive him?
C#       G#
No, i cannot
C#         D#
  Can i forgive him
 C#      G#
No, i cannot
 
BRIDGE
G#7             G#
Friends become strangers
   Fm7          Faug   D#
Compassion is hard to express in words
C#                D#
  The trembling flowers they bring
C#          D#
  Fear in the roots and the stem
C#                D#       C#
  What happened to me they know could
 G#
Happen to them
 
CHORUS
C#         D#
  Can i forgive him?
C#       G#
No, i cannot
C#         D#
  Can i forgive him
 C#      G#
No, i cannot
 
VERSE 2
C/G     Gm              D
   Only god can say 'forgive'
Gm7                          D
   His son too received the knife
Gm7                          D#
   But we go on, we have to live
Bb            Bb7           D#      B
   With this cross we call our life
G#7
Feels like a bomb fell
     Fm7        Faug     Bbm             D#
And wave after wave come the aftershocks
 
[2nd mother]
C#            D#
  You can't believe that it's true
C#               D#
  There must be some mistake
C#
  You drift through this nightmare from which you can't wake
 
CHORUS
C#         D#
  Can i forgive him?
C#         D#
  Can i forgive him
 C#      G#
No, i cannot
 
OUTRO
C#         D#
  Can i forgive him?
C#         D#
  Can i forgive him
 C#      G#
No, i cannot
C#         D#
  Can i forgive him?
C#         D#
  Can i forgive him
 C#      G#
No, i cannot
C#         D#
  Can i forgive him?
C#         D#
  Can i forgive him
 C#      G#
No, i cannot