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There Was A Time by Donovan

There Was A Time chords by Donovan

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

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


Verse 1:

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

Chorus 1:

C      Bm
 I was noble personage,
Em       C
 Born to beauti-fy the page.
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  Em   C       Em  C D7
If I used time to set it down.

Verse 2:

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

Chorus 2:

C       Bm
 I was of high lineage,
Em      C
 Cast up in a dreadful age.

Em       C      Em  C D7
 Born to be the hermit of my line.

Bridge 1:

Bm     F#m
 On a windy saturday,
Bm      F#m
 St. Alban's market day.
Em
 Little did I know,
      C
The work I was to do,
    Bm      Em  D7
Or the love I had to show.

Verse 3:

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

Chorus 3:

C       Bm
 I was of high lineage,
Em      C
 Cast up in a dreadful age.

Em       C      Em  C D7
 Born to be the hermit of my line.

Outro:

G G/F# Em


CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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  G   G/F#   Em   C    Bm   D7   F#m

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


Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2006
(clumsyband@hotmail.com)

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