BEFORE THIS WORLD/JOLLY SPRINGTIME - JAMES TAYLOR
"Before This World"(2015)
Submitted by ClassicalfreaK
INTRO
Dm Bb C
F Bb C F/A Bb C
Before this world was as we know it now
F Gm Dm Bb C
Before the land and sea were formed at all
F F9 Bb Gm C
Before the stars were made to burn and shine
Dm Gm9 Bb C F/C C
Little love of mine, darling one
F Bb C F/A Bb C
Who can pretend to understand at all
F Dm Gm Bb C
No one can both inside and outside be
F F9 Bb Gm C
Who can suppose he knows the way this goes
Dm Gm Bb Gm7 C F/C C
oh, little lamb, never mind
F Bb C F/A Bb C
So let us love and let us not delay
F Gm Bb Gm7 C
The world is old and it will never last
F F9 Bb Gm7 C
Our share of joy is in this moment past
Dm Gm F/A Bb Gm C F/C C
Will you come away, (come away) come away
F Bb C F/A Bb C
Fall into Jesus baby child
F Dm Gm Bb C
Give up the love that takes and breaks your heart
F F9 Bb Gm7 C
Let go the weight of all that holds you here
Dm Gm F/A Bb Gm C F/C C
Little love of mine, (love of mine) darling one
F F9 Bb Gm C
Dm Gm9 Bb Gm C ||
C F/C G/C C F/A
Bb F/A Bb Dm C F/A Bb
Gm Bb C F/C G/C C
Bb F/A Bb Dm C F/A Bb
Gm Bb C F/C G/C C F/A
Bb Dm G2 F/A Bb Dm Eb F/A
Bb Dm Eb F G2
[faster]
G
Oh the jolly springtime
C D
Oh, in the merry month of May
G C
Oh the heavenly hours
CM7 D G
Oh the come again day
G
Oh the jolly springtime
C D
In the merry month of May
G C
Oh the heavenly hours
CM7 D G
Oh the come again day
Em D/F# G
Let the day run long
G/B CM7 D
Let the river run high
G C
That tomorrow may live
D G
So must yesterday die
Em D/F# G
Let the resin risin’ up in the tree
G/B CM7 D
Make the green leaf bud
G7 G7/B C
The bird and the bee and the fish in the sea
C D G
Feeling it in my blood
G
Oh the jolly springtime
C D
In the merry month of May
G C
Oh the heavenly hours
CM7 D G
Oh the come again day
Em D/F# G
Yes the winter was bitter and long
CM7 D
So the spring’ll be sweet
G C
Come along with a rhythm and a song
C D G
Watch creation repeat
Em D/F# G
Thin, thin, the moment is thin
CM7 D
Ever so narrow the now
G G7/B C
Everybody say, "got to live in today,"
CM7 D G
Don’t nobody know how
G
Oh the jolly springtime
C D
In the merry month of May
G C
Oh the heavenly hours
CM7 D G
Oh the come again day
G
Oh the jolly springtime
C D
In the merry month of May
G C
Oh the heavenly hours
CM7 D G
Oh the come again day
[fade tenor drum]
