There Was A Time chords by Donovan

Chords with lyrics

...THERE WAS A augmentedA TIME... by Donovan
----------------------...........

*from 'A Gift from a Flower to a Garden' (1968)*


Verse 1:

G+G         G/F#       E minorEm
 There was a time, I thought of mine only.
G+G        G/F#        E minorEm
 Could it be, oc-curred to me while lonely.

Chorus 1:

C majorC      B minorBm
 I was noble personage,
E minorEm       C majorC
 Born to beauti-fy the page.

  E minorEm   C majorC       E minorEm  C majorC D7D7
If I used time to set it down.

Verse 2:

G+G         G/F#       E minorEm
 There was a time, I thought of mine only.
G+G        G/F#        E minorEm
 Could it be, oc-curred to me while lonely.

Chorus 2:

C majorC       B minorBm
 I was of high lineage,
E minorEm      C majorC
 Cast up in a dreadful age.

E minorEm       C majorC      E minorEm  C majorC D7D7
 Born to be the hermit of my line.

Bridge 1:

B minorBm     F# minorF#m
 On a windy saturday,
B minorBm      F# minorF#m
 St. Alban's market day.
E minorEm
 Little did I know,
      C majorC
The work I was to do,
    B minorBm      E minorEm  D7D7
Or the love I had to show.

Verse 3:

G+G         G/F#       E minorEm
 There was a time, I thought of mine only.
G+G        G/F#        E minorEm
 Could it be, oc-curred to me while lonely.

Chorus 3:

C majorC       B minorBm
 I was of high lineage,
E minorEm      C majorC
 Cast up in a dreadful age.

E minorEm       C majorC      E minorEm  C majorC D7D7
 Born to be the hermit of my line.

Outro:

G+G G/F# E minorEm


CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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  G+G   G/F#   E minorEm   C majorC    B minorBm   D7D7   F# minorF#m

 EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
 320003 200033 022000 x32010 x24432 xx0212 244222


Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2006
([email protected])