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Version 1
            ...PASTIME PARADISE... by Stevie Wonder
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*from 'Songs in the Key of Life' (1976)*
*CAPO 3rd FRET*
(Original Key: Ab)
[Intro]
F  Dm  E7  Am (x3)
[Verse 1]
F                      Dm                       E7           Am
 They've been spending most their lives, living in a Pastime Paradise.
F                      Dm                       E7           Am
 They've been spending most their lives, living in a Pastime Paradise.
F                     Dm                     E7              Am
 They've been wasting most their time, Glori-fying days long gone behind.
F                     Dm
 They've been wasting most their days,
      E7                     Am
In re-membrance of ignorance oldest praise. Tell me...
[Chorus 1]
F       Dm         E7      Am
 Who of them, will come to be?
       F     Dm        E7      Am
How ma-ny of them, are you and me?
      F      Dm       E7      Am
Dissi-pation, race re-lations.
      F      Dm     E7     Am
Conso-lation, segre-gation.
       F           Dm             E7           Dm
Dispen-sation, iso-lation, exploi-tation, muti-lation.
   F               Dm            E7             Am
Mu-tations, miscre-ation, confir-mation, to the evil's of the world.
[Verse 2]
F                      Dm                       E7            Am
 They've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.
F                      Dm                       E7            Am
 They've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.
F                     Dm
 They've been looking in their minds,
        E7                Am
For the day that sorrow's gone from time.
F                  Dm
 They keep telling of the day,
         E7                   Am
When the Saviour of love will come to stay. Tell me...
[Chorus 2]
F       Dm         E7      Am
 Who of them, will come to be?
       F     Dm        E7      Am
How ma-ny of them, are you and me?
       F      Dm          E7      Am
Procla-mation, of Race Re-lations,
      F      Dm    E7      Am
Conso-lation, 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                       E7           Am
 They've been spending most their lives, living in a Pastime Paradise.
F                      Dm                       E7           Am
 They've been spending most their lives, living in a Pastime Paradise.
F                      Dm                       E7            Am
 They've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.
F                      Dm                       E7            Am
 They've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.
F                        Dm                        E7           Am
 We've been spending too much of our lives, living in a Pastime Paradise.
F            Dm                       E7              Am
 Let's start living our lives, living for, the future paradise.
F       Dm                   E7              Am
 Praise to our lives, living for, the future paradise.
F         Dm                     E7             Am
 Shame to anyone's lives, living in the pastime paradise.
Coda: (Hare Krishna and 'We Shall Overcome' chants)
F  Dm  E7  Am
(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, 2004 () 
        
                