Dermot Kennedy – For Island Fires And Family (Guitar Live)

Capo 3 Video Lesson
Key
-
Versions (2)

Auto-scroll

Chords

Capo III (studio version) or or Capo II (https://youtu.be/djhqwLkCt1Y) All chords relative to capo.
[Chords]
Em7     0-2-x-0-3-x
G       3-2-x-0-3-x
Cadd9   x-3-x-0-3-x
G/B     x-2-x-0-3-x
Em7no5  x-x-2-0-3-x
Em9/F#  x-x-4-0-3-x

[Basic Verse Fingerpicking Pattern]
    Em7           G               Cadd9    Riff
e|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
B|--3-----3---3--(3)---3---3---|-(3)----3--0-0h3p0-----------|
G|--0----(0)-(0)-(0)--(0)-(0)--|-(0)---(0)----------0-0h2--0-|
D|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
A|-----------------------------|--3--------------------------|
E|--0-------------3------------|-----------------------------|

[Basic Chorus Fingerpicking Pattern]
    G/B           Cadd9           Em7no5     Em9/F#
e|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
B|-(3)----3--(3)-(3)---3--(3)--|-------3--3------3---3---3---|
G|-(0)---(0)-(0)-(0)--(0)-(0)--|------(0)(0)-----0---0---0---|
D|-----------------------------|--2----------4-----4---4-----|
A|--2-------------3------------|-----------------------------|
E|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
[Verse 1]
Em7            G               Cadd9  Riff
    How it must feel to be a bird

Em7          G         Cadd9
    Roaming lonely over sea air

Em7            G                Cadd9  Riff
    How it must feel to be a bird

Em7         G          Cadd9
    London, Paris underneath, I'll wait on my own here
[Interlude] (Played twice in YouTube versions)
Em7 G Cadd9   Riff
Oooooooooooooh

Em7 G Cadd9
Oooooooooooooh
[Chorus 1]
  G/B   Cadd9                             Em7no5  Em9/F#
And   I   couldn't tell you enough that I'm sorry

  G/B   Cadd9                             Em7no5        Em9/F#
And   no, you couldn't tell me enough that you loved me

                   G/B               Cadd9               Em7no5  Em9/F#
She's bringing the moon and stars to me, damn permanent reverie

                     G/B                Cadd9                           Em7no5    Em9/F#
And even though this life, this love is brief, I've got some people who carry me
[Verse 2]
          Em7                                G
Wasn't it love as soon as we knew each other properly?

             Cadd9
Living 'bout half right, until a certain person got to me

           Em7                                 G
Nothing is secret, everything's sacred, how it ought to be

          Cadd9
Under the moonlight on a clear night on rooftops is where I want to be

    Em7                                      G
Sometimes I'm like a child, it's something I can't release

              Cadd9
Dreams of her coming home, sweet home, I'm telling you home's so sweet

           Em7                                        G
Said you reminded me of the summer times, and I still mean that

     Cadd9
In a full room I'm the only one she's smiling at
[Verse 3]
                Em7                              G
So wouldn't you let me know if you were thinking less of me?

                Cadd9
That's what she asked me, what was promised, what we both agreed

                       Em7                                 G
But truthfully, if you ever go, you'll drop me straight to Hell, the seventh circle

          Cadd9
And I was talking with you earlier, we were open and vulnerable, it was wonderful

Em7   G                               Cadd9      Riff
    I, I used to dream that you would talk to me

Em7   G                               Cadd9
       I used to dream that you would talk to me
[Chorus 2]
  G/B   Cadd9                             Em7no5  Em9/F#
And   I   couldn't tell you enough that I'm sorry

  G/B   Cadd9                             Em7no5        Em9/F#
And   no, you couldn't tell me enough that you loved me

                       G/B               Cadd9               Em7no5  Em9/F#
But she's bringing the moon and stars to me, damn permanent reverie

                     G/B                Cadd9                           Em7no5    Em9/F#
And even though this life, this love is brief, I've got some people who carry me
[Verse 4]
              G/B                                  Cadd9                             Em7no5  Em9/F#
You know that feeling when you think your heart is gonna come right out through your shirt?

           G/B                               Cadd9                          Em7no5  Em9/F#
I get it a couple times a year but I've been getting it more often with her

             G/B                                   Cadd9                            Em7no5  Em9/F#
Now when I'm face to face with death I'll grab his throat and ask him, "how does it hurt?"

            G/B                            Cadd9                           Em7no5  Em9/F#
Up in those golden moments growing old too quickly, was he thinking of her?
[Chorus 3]
                       G/B               Cadd9               Em7no5  Em9/F#
But she's bringing the moon and stars to me, damn permanent reverie

                     G/B                Cadd9                           Em7no5    Em9/F#
And even though this life, this love is brief, I've got some people who carry me