A Simple Game chords by Four Tops

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

Cover of the 1968 'Moody Blues' song

Tuning: Standard

CAPO: 1st fret (Sounds in key of Fm)

Fret positions are relative to capo:
Em   =  xx2000    B      =  x24442
Em/B =  x22000    B7     =  x24242 or x21202
Em/D =  xx0000    D      =  xx0232
Am   =  x02210    G      =  320033
C    =  x32010    D7     =  xx0212
                  D7sus4 =  xx0213

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   Em   Em/B   Em   Em/B    Em   Em/B   Em   Em/B
|  /     /     /     /   |   /     /     /     /  |


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


    Em/D
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
Am
Doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
     B                            (B7)
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo, doo---!)


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


    Em/D
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
    Am
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
 B                             (B7)
Doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---, doo---!)


   C                        Em       D        C      G
Thoughts of another day, flashing through my head--------,
   C
Thinking how life could be,
Em           D               C             G     D7  D7sus4   D7 D7sus4
All of the things that our great men have said------,
Em                     Em/D
Be what we want to be, what we deserve to be,
 Am             B   B7     Em
What...we are meant---- to be,


    Em/D
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
    Am
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
     B                            (B7)
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo, doo---!)


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


    Em/D
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
Am
Doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
          B                            (B7)
Oh - oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo, doo---!)


Em                                Em/D
You and me, (You and me...) we'll touch the sky!(...we'll touch the sky!)
     Am
Oh, can't you see? (Can't you see?)
     B                         (B7)
Oh, doo - doo, doo! (Doo - doo, doo, doo---!)


Em
Doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
    Em/D
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
    Am
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
 B                            (B7)            Em