...TIME TOUGH... by Toots & 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:
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:
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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)
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