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
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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!
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/f/four_tops/a_simple_game_crd.html ]
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
Doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo, doo---!)
