Song: A simple game
Artist: The Four Tops
Composer: Mike Pinder
Tabbed by: DJ
15th Aug 2012
Motown cover of the 1968 'Moody Blues' song
CAPO: 1st fret (Sounds in key of Fm)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
Em = xx2000 B = x24442
Em/B = x22000 B7 = x24242 or x21202
Em/D = xx0000 D = xx0232
Am = x02210 G = 320033
C = x32010 D7 = xx0212
D7sus4 = xx0213
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[Intro]
Em Em/B Em Em/B Em Em/B Em Em/B
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[Verse 1]
Em Em/D Am C B Em
As time goes by, you will see that we're going to be free,
Em/D Am
You and me, we'll touch the sky,
C B Em Em/D
Can't you see in your mind's eye, that we are one,
Am C B Em
We're all the same, and life is just a simple game?
[Chorus]
Em/D
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
Am
Doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
B B7
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo, doo---!)
[Verse 2]
Em Em/D Am
There by your side, (Oh, yeah!) I will be, (Oh, yeah!)
C B Em Em/D
When this crazy world is free, free from doubt,
Am C B Em
When it finds out ...exactly what we're meant to be,
Em/D Am
That we are one, we're all the same,
C B Em
And life is just a simple game!
[Chorus]
Em/D
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
Am
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
B B7
Doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---, doo---!)
[Bridge]
C Em D C G
Thoughts of another day, flashing through my head------,
C
Thinking how life could be,
Em D C G D7 D7sus4
All of the things that our great men have said-----,
D7 D7sus4 Em Em/D
Be what we want to be, what we deserve to be,
Am B B7 Em
What...we are meant---- to be,
[Chorus]
Em/D
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
Am
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
B B7
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo, doo---!)
[Verse 3]
Em Em/D
As time goes by, (Oh, yeah!)
Am C B Em
You will see ...that we're going to be free,
Em/D Am
You and me, we'll touch the sky,
C B Em Em/D
Can't you see in your mind's eye, that we are one,
Am C B Em
We're all the same, and life is just a simple game?
[Chorus]
Em/D
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
Am
Doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
B B7
Oh - oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo, doo---!)
[Coda]
Em
You and me, (You and me...)
Em/D
We'll touch the sky! (...we'll touch the sky!)
Am
Oh, can't you see? (Can't you see?)
B B7
Oh, doo - doo, doo! (Doo - doo, doo, doo---!)
Em
Doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
Em/D
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
Am
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)
B B7 Em
Doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo, doo---!)
