...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:

                  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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