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Time Tough Chords by Toots And The Maytals

Time Tough chords by Toots And The Maytals

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*from 'Funky Kingston' (1973)*


Intro:

C

Verse 1:

        F                    C
I go to bed, but sleep won't come,
              F                          C
Get up in the night, I couldn't fight my feelings.
             F                                C
Early in the morning, it's just the same situ-ation,
               F                                 C
Here comes the landlord, just a-knocking upon my door.
         F
I've got four hundred/month rent to pay,
                   C
And I can't find a job. Let me, let me tell you:
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Chorus 1:

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

Verse 2:

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

Chorus 2:

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

Verse 3:

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

(Fade)


CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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   C       F

 EADGBE  EADGBE
 x35553  133211
                                    ____
           _             __   __   |  __|  __    __
          | |   _   _   |  \ /  |  | |__   \ \  / /
  _____   | |  | | | |  |       |  |__  |   \ \/ /
 |  ___|  | |  | | | |  | |\_/| |   __| |    \  /
 | |= =   | |  | |_| |  | | = | |  |____|     | |
 | |      | |  |_____|  | |   | |   = = =     | |
 | |___   | |   = = =   | |   | |             | |
 |_____|  | |           |_|   |_|             | |
  = = =   | |_____       =     =    Tabbed by |_|
          |_______|  Joel from cLuMsY, 2009    =

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