...PASTIME PARADISE... by Stevie Wonder ----------------------................. *from 'Songs In The Key Of Life' (1976)* *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 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 Dissi-pation, E7 Am Race re-lations. F Dm Conso-lation, E7 Am Segre-gation. F Dm Dispen-sation, iso-lation, E7 Dm Exploi-tation, muti-lation. F Dm Mu-tations, miscre-ation, E7 Am Confir-mation, to the evil's 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 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 Procla-mation, E7 Am Of Race Re-lations, F Dm Conso-lation, E7 Am Inte-gretion. F Verifi-cation, Dm Of Reve-lations, E7 Accla-mation, Am World Sal-vation. F Dm Vi-brations, stimu-lation, E7 Am 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 anyone's lives, E7 Am Living in the pastime paradise. Coda: (Haire Krishna and 'We Shall Overcome' chants) F Dm E7 Am (End on F) CHORD DIAGRAMS: --------------- F Dm E7 Am EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE x33210 xx0231 020100 x02210 Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2004 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)