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Pastime Paradise

Stevie Wonder

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...PASTIME PARADISE... by Stevie Wonder  from Songs In The Key Of Life
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*CAPO 3rd FRET*

(Original Key: Ab)

Intro:

F  Dm  E7  Am (x3)

Verse 1:

F                      Dm  
 They've been spending most their lives
       E7           Am
Living in a pastime paradise
F                      Dm  
 They've been spending most their lives
       E7           Am
Living in a pastime paradise
F                     Dm 
 They've been wasting most their time
     E7              Am
Glorifying days long gone behind
F                    Dm 
They've been wasting most their days
     E7                     Am
In remembrance of ignorance oldest praise

Chorus 1:

        F      Dm        E7      Am
Tell me who of them will come to be
       F     Dm       E7      Am
How ma-ny of them are you and me

      F      Dm        
Dissi-pation
        E7      Am
Race Re-lations
      F      Dm 
Conso-lation
      E7      Am
Segre-gation
       F           Dm             E7           Am
Dispen-sation, Iso-lation, Exploi-tation, Muti-lation
   F               Dm            E7              Am   
Mu-tations, Miscre-ation, Confir-mation...to the evils of the world


Verse 2:

F                      Dm  
 They've been spending most their lives
       E7            Am
Living in the future paradise
F                      Dm  
 They've been spending most their lives
       E7            Am
Living in the future paradise
F                     Dm 
 They've been looking in their minds
        E7               Am
For the day that sorrows gone from time
F                  Dm 
 They keep telling of the day
         E7                  Am
When the Savior of love will come to stay

Chorus 2:

        F      Dm        E7      Am
Tell me who of them will come to be
       F     Dm       E7      Am
How ma-ny of them are you and me

       F      Dm 
Procla-mation
           E7      Am
of Race Re-lations
      F      Dm 
Conso-lation
     E7      Am  
Inte-gretion
       F               Dm             E7                Am
Verifi-cation, of Reve-lations, Accla-mation, World Sal-vation
   F               Dm             E7              Am
Vi-brations, Stimu-lation, Confir-mation...to the peace of the world

Verse 3:

F                      Dm  
 They've been spending most their lives
       E7           Am
Living in a pastime paradise
F                      Dm  
 They've been spending most their lives
       E7           Am
Living in a pastime paradise
F                      Dm  
 They've been spending most their lives
       E7            Am
Living in the future paradise
F                      Dm  
 They've been spending most their lives
       E7            Am
Living in the future paradise
F                        Dm  
 We've been spending too much of our lives
       E7           Am
Living in a pastime paradise
F            Dm 
 Let's start living our lives
       E7             Am
Living for the future paradise
F       Dm 
 Praise to our lives
       E7             Am
Living for the future paradise
F         Dm 
 Shame to anyones lives
       E7             Am
Living in the pastime paradise

Coda:

F  Dm  E7  Am (Haire Krishna and 'we shall overcome' chants)

(End on F) 


CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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   F       Dm      E7      Am   
 
 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  
 x33210  xx0231  020100  x02210


Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2005 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)

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Pastime Paradise

Stevie Wonder