A Simple Game chords by Four Tops

Chords with lyrics

Artist: The Four Tops
Song: A augmentedA simple game
Tabbed by: DJ
15th Aug 2012

Cover of the 1968 'Moody Blues' song

Tuning: Standard

CAPO: 1st fret (Sounds in key of F minorFm)

Fret positions are relative to capo:
E minorEm  = xx2000  BB   = x24442
Em/B = x22000  B7B7   = x24242 or x21202
Em/DEm/D = xx0000  D MajorD   = xx0232
A minorAm  = x02210  G+G   = 320033
C majorC  = x32010  D7D7   = xx0212
         D7sus4D7sus4 = xx0213

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  E minorEm  Em/B  E minorEm  Em/B  E minorEm  Em/B  E minorEm  Em/B
| /   /   /   /  |  /   /   /   / |

E minorEm     Em/DEm/D     A minorAm         C majorC  BB   E minorEm
As time goes by, you will see...that we're going to be free,
    Em/DEm/D         A minorAm
You and me, we'll touch the sky,
      C majorC   BB     E minorEm        Em/DEm/D
Can't you see in your mind's eye, that we are one,
        A minorAm        C majorC    BB   E minorEm
We're all the same, and life is just a simple game?


  Em/DEm/D
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
A minorAm
Doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
   BB              (B7B7)
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo, doo---!)


E minorEm        Em/DEm/D           A minorAm
  There by your side, (Oh, yeah!) I will be, (Oh, yeah!)
      C majorC   BB    E minorEm
When this crazy world is free,
      Em/DEm/D        A minorAm       C majorC     BB    E minorEm
Free from doubt, when it finds out... exactly what we're meant to be,
      Em/DEm/D        A minorAm        C majorC    BB   E minorEm
That we are one, we're all the same, and life is just a simple game!

  Em/DEm/D
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
  A minorAm
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
 BB               (B7B7)
Doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---, doo---!)


  C majorC            E minorEm    D MajorD    C majorC   G+G
Thoughts of another day, flashing through my head--------,
  C majorC
Thinking how life could be,
E minorEm      D MajorD        C majorC       G+G   D7D7 D7sus4D7sus4  D7D7 D7sus4D7sus4
All of the things that our great men have said------,
E minorEm           Em/DEm/D
Be what we want to be, what we deserve to be,
 A minorAm       BB  B7B7   E minorEm
What...we are meant---- to be,


  Em/DEm/D
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
  A minorAm
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
   BB              (B7B7)
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo, doo---!)


E minorEm       Em/DEm/D           A minorAm         C majorC  BB   E minorEm
  As time goes by,(Oh, yeah!) you will see...that we're going to be free,
    Em/DEm/D         A minorAm
You and me, we'll touch the sky,
      C majorC   BB     E minorEm        Em/DEm/D
Can't you see in your mind's eye, that we are one,
        A minorAm        C majorC    BB   E minorEm
We're all the same, and life is just a simple game?


  Em/DEm/D
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
A minorAm
Doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
     BB              (B7B7)
Oh - oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo, doo---!)


E minorEm                Em/DEm/D
You and me, (You and me...) we'll touch the sky!(...we'll touch the sky!)
   A minorAm
Oh, can't you see? (Can't you see?)
   BB             (B7B7)
Oh, doo - doo, doo! (Doo - doo, doo, doo---!)


E minorEm
Doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
  Em/DEm/D
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
  A minorAm
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
 BB              (B7B7)      E minorEm