...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         Em             C
 I was noble personage, 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       Em           C
 I was of high lineage, cast up in a dreadful age.
Em              C            Em   C  D7
 Born to be the hermit of my line.

Bridge 1:

Bm          F#m      Bm           F#m
 On a windy saturday, St. Alban's market day.
Em                            C
 Little did I know 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       Em           C
 I was of high lineage, 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)