Shades Of Gray:The Monkees.
Album - Headquarters - #1 on BB Hot
100 on COLGEMS Records in 1967.
INTRO: G
#1.
C Em F G
When the world and I were young, just yesterday.
C Em F G
Life was such a simple game, a child could play.
C G
It was easy then to tell right from wrong.
Am Em
Easy then to tell weak from strong.
F C Am Dm Em F
When a man should stand and fight, or just go along.
CHORUS:
G F G C Am
But today there is no day or night.
F G C
Today there is no dark or light.
F G C F C G
Today there is no black or white, only shades of gray.
#2.
C Em F G
I remember when the answers seemed so clear.
C Bb F G
We had never lived with doubt or tasted fear.
C G Am
It was easy then to tell truth from lies..selling out
Em
from compromise.
F C Am Dm Em F
Who to love and who to hate, the foolish from the wise.
CHORUS:
G F G C Am
But today there is no day or night.
F G C
Today there is no dark or light.
F G C F C G
Today there is no black or white, only shades of gray.
INTERLUDE: C F G..C F G
#3.
C G Am
It was easy then to know what was fair, when to keep
Em
and when to share.
F C Am Dm Em F
How much to protect your heart and how much to care.
CHORUS:
G F G C Am
But today there is no day or night.
F G C
Today there is no dark or light.
F G C F C G
Today there is no black or white, only shades of gray.
OUTRO:
C G
Only shades of gray..(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
