Time Tough chords by Toots And The Maytals

Chords with lyrics

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*from 'Funky Kingston' (1973)*


Intro:

C majorC

Verse 1:

    FF          C majorC
I go to bed, but sleep won't come,
       FF             C majorC
Get up in the night, I couldn't fight my feelings.
       FF                C majorC
Early in the morning, it's just the same situ-ation,
        FF                 C majorC
Here comes the landlord, just a-knocking upon my door.
     FF
I've got four hundred/month rent to pay,
          C majorC
And I can't find a job. Let me, let me tell you:

Chorus 1:

   FF
Time tough, (time tough),
                  C majorC
Everything is out of sight, it's so hard, (so hard, so hard, so hard).
   FF
Time tough, (time tough),
                 C majorC
Everything is growing higher and higher, (higher and higher).

Verse 2:

         FF
Sister lee cannot bear it,
             C majorC
And brother Lincoln only stand it, now.
        FF
They're crying night and day, louder and louder,
          C majorC
Nobody to help them make their way.
     FF
I've got four hundred/month rent to pay,
          C majorC
And I can't find a dollar. Let me, let me tell you;

Chorus 2:

   FF
Time tough, (time tough),
                  C majorC
Everything is out of sight, it's so hard, (so hard, so hard, so hard).
   FF
Time hard, (time hard),
                 C majorC
Everything is growing higher and higher, (higher and higher).

Verse 3:

FF
 Good times once lead into bad times,
              C majorC
But now the bad times take over.
          FF
When I was a little boy,
        C majorC
I just keep on feeling it, feeling it, feeling it, feeling it...

(Fade)

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