...TIME TOUGH... by Toots & The Maytals
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*from 'Funky Kingston' (1973)*


Intro:

C (x32010@1)Verse 1:

        F (133211@1)                  CI (x32010@1)go to bed, but sleep won't come,
              F (133211@1)                        CGet (x32010@1)up in the night, I couldn't fight my feelings.
             F (133211@1)                              CEarly (x32010@1)in the morning, it's just the same situ-ation,
               F (133211@1)                               CHere (x32010@1)comes the landlord, just a-knocking upon my door.
         FI've (133211@1)got four hundred/month rent to pay,
                   CAnd (x32010@1)I can't find a job. Let me, let me tell you:

Chorus 1:

     FTime (133211@1)tough, (time tough),
                                    CEverything (x32010@1)is out of sight, it's so hard, (so hard, so hard, so hard).
     FTime (133211@1)tough, (time tough),
                                 CEverything (x32010@1)is growing higher and higher, (higher and higher).

Verse 2:

                  FSister (133211@1)lee cannot bear it,
                         CAnd (x32010@1)brother Lincoln only stand it, now.
               FThey're (133211@1)crying night and day, louder and louder,
                    CNobody (x32010@1)to help them make their way.
         FI've (133211@1)got four hundred/month rent to pay,
                   CAnd (x32010@1)I can't find a dollar. Let me, let me tell you;

Chorus 2:

     FTime (133211@1)tough, (time tough),
                                    CEverything (x32010@1)is out of sight, it's so hard, (so hard, so hard, so hard).
     FTime (133211@1)hard, (time hard),
                                 CEverything (x32010@1)is growing higher and higher, (higher and higher).

Verse 3:

F (133211@1)Good times once lead into bad times,
                           CBut (x32010@1)now the bad times take over.
                    FWhen (133211@1)I was a little boy,
               CI (x32010@1)just keep on feeling it, feeling it, feeling it, feeling it...

(Fade)


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 |  ___|  | |  | | | |  | |\_/| |   __| |    \  /
 | |= =   | |  | |_| |  | | = | |  |____|     | |
 | |      | |  |_____|  | |   | |   = = =     | |
 | |___   | |   = = =   | |   | |             | |
 |_____|  | |           |_|   |_|             | |
  = = =   | |_____       =     =    Tabbed by |_|
          |_______|  Joel from cLuMsY, 2009    =
           = = = =      (clumsyband@hotmail.com)