Tuning
1
Difficulty
Beginner 👶
Rate for accuracy
🎸
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Artist - Barclay James Harvest
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Song - Happy Old World
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Album - Once Again (1971)
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Tabbed By - Ayreon77
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Tuning = Standard
VERSE 1
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Am D
Looking like something from out of space we came
Bm Bb C
Nothing much to look at but did he complain
E Am D
He didn`t mind us being here to live in peace and grace
F E
What we`re doing to him now could put us back in space
---------------------- VERSE 2 ******** Am D We`re thinking like some creatures off the ocean floor Bm Bb C Losing sight of what we`ve really come here for E Am D Can I be heard above the sounds of prejudice and hate F E C Take time to look around before it gets too late ---------------------- CHORUS ******* Am C D It`s a happy old world G C#m Give and take a bit that`s what you make of it Am G F#m D A happy old world G E But I`m sorry to be leaving it Am G D It`s a happy old world G E Give and take a bit that`s what you make of it Am D A happy old world G D But I guess I still, I still believe in it E F#m C#m It`s a happy old world ---------------------- VERSE 3 ******** Am D We`re tearing up the rivers and a thousand streams Bm Bb C And highways, they`re in places where they`ve never been E Am D We`re building towers in the sky and racing for the sun F E Oh Lord, any eye can see what harm we`ve done ---------------------- VERSE 4 ******** Am D Need some help to get myself out of this maze Bm Bb C We can both just say goodbye and go our separate ways E Am D My mind`s not on this song I sing, my heart`s not in the lines F E Guess I`ll go and kill myself, so would you kindly close the blinds ---------------------- CHORUS ******* Am C D It`s a happy old world G C#m Give and take a bit that`s what you make of it Am G F#m D A happy old world G E But I`m sorry to be leaving it Am G D It`s a happy old world G E Give and take a bit that`s what you make of it Am D A happy old world G D But I guess, guess I still believe in it E F#m C#m It`s a happy old world ---------------------- ELEC PIANO *********** Am D Bm Bb C E Am D F Am E Am D Bm Bb C E Am Fade Out..........
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