• Song:

    Used To Be

  • Artist:

    Lost And Found

  • Album:

    Sikkibahm

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 |       "Used to Be" orig. by Stevie Wonder        |
 |           Performed by Lost and Found            |
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 Tabbed by craigfr@craigfr.com


(picking)
G     G/D     G/E      G/D
Superman was killed in Dallas
G     G/D     G/E      G/D
There's no love left in the palace
G     G/D     G/E      G/D      F     D
Someone took the Beatle's lead guitar
G     G/D   G/E     G/D
Have another Chevis Regal
G     G/D         G/E     G/D
Your twelve years old and sex is legal
G     G/D     G/E      G/D               F    D
Your parents don't know where or who you are

C                               G
Used to be the hero of the ball game
C                                  G
Took the time to shake the loser's hand
C               D             Bm              Em
Used to be that failure only meant you didn't try
C                              D walkdown to G
In a world where people gave a damn

G     G/D     G/E      G/D
Great big wars in little places
G     G/D     G/E      G/D
Look at all those frightened faces
G     G/D     G/E      G/D                 F     D
But don't come here we just ain't got the room
G     G/D     G/E      G/D
Love thy neighbor's wife and daughter
G     G/D     G/E      G/D
You cleanse your life with holy water
G     G/D     G/E      G/D           F     D
Hey we don't need to bathe we've got perfume

C                              G
Used to be a knight in shining armor
C                           G
Didn't have to own a shiny car
(strum)
C                D                Bm           Em
'Cuz dignity and courage were the measure of a man
C                                      D    G
And not the drugs he needs to hide his scars

(strum harder)
Bm
And can your teacher read
Bm
And does your preacher pray
              F#m
And does your president have soul
          G                           F#m
Have you heard a real good ethnic joke today
Bm
Mama took her speed
Bm
Daddy ran away
F#m
But you mustn't lose control
            G
You see the kids are wild we just can't tame 'em
    A
Do we have a right to blame 'em

(back to picking)
D     D/C#   D/B   D/C#
We fed them all our indecision
D     D/C#   D/B   D/C#
And raped their minds with television
D     D/C#   D/B   D/C#                     C   A   
But what the hell they're too young to feel pain
G                                 D
But I believe that love will save tomorrow
G                                 D
I believe that truth will make us free

(strum)
 G                   A             F#m           Bm
Someone tried to say it and we nailed him to a cross
G                       A           (picking)D
I guess it's still the way it used to be
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