From: poirier@bnr.ca (Daniel Poirier)
Subject: Re: Tab for Helene by Roch Voisine seeked.
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:28:40 GMT

In article <C04EJJ.sA@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> lnklam@napier.uwaterloo.ca () writes:
>Anyone knows the tab or cord for Roch Voisine's song "Helene" (with an 
>accent over the last 'e')?  And, yes, I've checked Nevada already.
>
>I don't think Voisine (from Quebec) is famous or even known in the U.S., 
>but supposedly he's a big star in Europe, as in parts of Canada. 
>Fellow Canucks or folks from EC, your help will be much appreciated.
>
>The English version of Helene' starts with something like (I think):
>	Two hundred miles away from home,
>	A million miles from you....
>
>Thanks again, eh.
>-Keith

I used to play this with a band I did substitutes for. I don't know if
this is in the right key, since many of the songs that band did were done
in a different key to accomodate the singer. I'm also not too sure about
the chord progression during the guitar solo at the end of the chorus 
(I was soloing, so didn't play chords) and I don't have a guitar with me
to figure it out now, but you should be able to. The text is a little hard
to read with the proper french accents, but you'll get the idea. Here it is
in Em, as far as I can remember:


Helene, by Rock Voisine
-----------------------

Em          G                    C      D                   Em
Seul sur le sable, les yeux dans l'eau, mon reve etait trop beau
              G             C      D                   Em
L'ete qui s'acheve, tu partiras, a cent mille lieus de moi
             G         C       D                 Em     G    C    D
Comment oublier ton sourire et tellement de souvenirs

Em                G              C        D                   Em
Nos jeux dans les vagues pres du quai, je n'ai vu le temps passer
               G          C        D                 Em
L'amour sur la plage desertee, nos corps brules, enlaces
            G              C         D                Em    G    C    D
Comment t'aimer si tu t'en vas, dans ton pays loin la-bas

G                  C   G                   C
Helene, things you do, make me crazy about you
G                 C        Am                        D7
Pourquoi tu pars, reste ici, j'ai tant besoin d'une amie
G                  C   G                   C
Helene, things you do, make me crazy about you
G                   C          Am                 C  
Pourquoi tu part si loin de moi, la ou le vent te porte
                      G       D     C    Am    G    D    C    Am
Loin de mon coeur qui bat...  (guitar solo)

G                  C   G                   C
Helene, things you do, make me crazy about you
G                 C        Am                D7
Pourquoi tu pars, reste ici encore juste une nuit


Em          G                    C      D                   Em
Seul sur le sable, les yeux dans l'eau, mon reve etait trop beau
              G             C      D                   Em
L'ete qui s'acheve, tu partiras, a cent mille lieus de moi
            G              C         D                Em     G     C
Comment t'aimer si tu t'en vas, dans ton pays loin la-bas
     D                Em    G    C      D                Em
Dans ton pays loin la-bas,         Dans ton pays loin de moi

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