• Song:

    A Simple Game

  • Artist:

    Moody Blues

  • Album:

    Prelude

Artist: The Moody Blues
Song: A simple game
Tabbed by: DJ
15th Aug 2012

1968 B-side of 'Ride my see-saw'
Available on the album 'Prelude'

Tuning: Standard

CAPO: 2nd fret (Sounds in key of Bm)

Fret positions are relative to capo:
Asus2 = x02200    F  =  133211
Am   =  x02210    E  =  022100
Am/E =  022100    E7 =  022130
Am/G =  302210    G  =  320033
Dm   =  x00321    C  =  x32010

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  Asus2 Am    (Am/E)  Asus2 Am    (Am/E)
e|-------------------|-------------------|
B|--0---h1--1--------|--0---h1--1--------|
G|--2-------------2--|--2-------------2--|
D|-------------------|-------------------|
A|--0----------------|--0----------------|
E|-------------0-----|-------------0-----|  (Twice)


Am          Am/G          Dm                 F   E      Am
As time goes by, you will see...that we're going to be free,
       Am/G                 Dm
You and me, we'll touch the sky,
         F      E          Am               Am/G
Can you see in your mind's eye, that we are one,
               Dm                F       E     Am
We're all the same, and life is just a simple game?
 Am/G                Dm                   E                  E7
(Doo - doo, doo---!  Doo - doo, doo---!  Doo - doo, doo---!)


Am              Am/G         Dm              F     E       Am
There...by your side, I will be, when this crazy world is free,
           Am/G                Dm             F          E       Am
Free from doubt, when it finds out...exactly what we're meant to be,
            Am/G                Dm                F       E     Am
That we are one, we're all the same, and life is just a simple game!
 Am/G                Dm                   E                  E7
(Doo - doo, doo---!  Doo - doo, doo---!  Doo - doo, doo---!)


   F                        Am       G        F      C
Thoughts of another day, flashing through my head--------,
   F
Thinking how life could be,
Am           G               F             C     G7
All of the things that our great men have said--------,
Am                     Am/G
Be what we want to be, what we deserve to be,
 Dm             E   E7     Am
What...we are meant---- to be,
 Am/G                Dm                   E                  E7
(Doo - doo, doo---!  Doo - doo, doo---!  Doo - doo, doo---!)


Am           Am/G         Dm                 F   E      Am
As time goes by, you will see...that we're going to be free,
        Am/G                Dm
You and me, we'll touch the sky,
         F      E          Am               Am/G
Can you see in your mind's eye, that we are one,
               Dm                F       E     Am
We're all the same, and life is just a simple game?
 Am/G                Dm                   E                  E7
(Doo - doo, doo---!  Doo - doo, doo---!  Doo - doo, doo---!)


Am   C   D                    Am
             When we all a - gree!
                             (Doo - doo, doo---!)
 Am/G                Dm                   E                  E7
(Doo - doo, doo---!  Doo - doo, doo---!  Doo - doo, doo---!)

      Am                 Am/G
||:  (Doo - doo, doo---!  Doo - doo, doo---)

      Dm                  E                   E7
     (Doo - doo, doo---! Doo - doo, doo---!)      :|| (3 times, end on Am)
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