Donovan - There Was A Time Chords & Tabs

...THERE WAS A TIME... by Donovan
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*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.

   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:
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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)