Billy Joel - This Is The Time Chords

[Intro]
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| C#m7| D6 | E | % |
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[Verse]
C#m7               D                 E
  We walked on the beach beside that old hotel
C#m7                 D                  E
  They're tearing it down now, but it's just as well
C#m7                  D            E
  I haven't shown you everything a man can do
C#m7              D              E               E E
  So stay with me baby, I've got plans for you (breaks)


[Chorus]
            E/G#      A
This is the time to remember
         D                E
Cause it will not last forever
              E/G#         A
These are the days to hold on to
         D                     E
Cause we won't, although we'll want to
            A
This is the time
G6                  F#7sus4 F#7
  But time is gonna change
                    Faug F6 F6  [ Faug F6 F6   ]
You've given me the best of you
                   A/E  E  E
And now I need the rest of you


[Verse]
C#m7                  D               E
  Did you know that before you came into my life
C#m7                  D            E
  It was some kind of miracle that I survived
C#m7               D                  E
  Some day we will both look back and have to laugh
C#m7                 D                E           E E
  We lived through a lifetime and the aftermath (breaks)


[Chorus]
            E/G#      A
This is the time to remember
         D                E
Cause it will not last forever
              E/G#         A
These are the days to hold on to
         D                     E
Cause we won't, although we'll want to
            A
This is the time
G6                  F#7sus4 F#7
  But time is gonna change
                    Faug F6  F6  [ Faug F6 F6   ]
I know we've got to move somehow
                    A/E  E   E
But I don't want to lose you now


[Middle 8]
C#m7               G#m7
 Sometimes it's so easy
         A           B  Cdim7
To let a day slip on by
C#m7           G#m7                | A | A B |
  Without even seeing each other at all
C#m7              G#m7
  But this is the time you'll turn back
    F#m7    D#m7-5 G#7
And so will I
C#m7                G#m7                | Aadd9 | % |
  And those will be days you can never recall


[Interlude]
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[Verse]
C#m7          D             E
  And so we embrace again behind the dunes
C#m7            D              E
  This beach is cold on winter afternoons
C#m7              D                         E
  But holding you close is like holding the summer sun
C#m7                D         E
  I'm warm from the memory of days to come


[Chorus]
            E/G#      A
This is the time to remember
         D                E
Cause it will not last forever
              E/G#         A
These are the days to hold on to
         D                     E
Cause we won't, although we'll want to
            A
This is the time
G6                  F#7sus4 F#7
  But time is gonna change
                    Faug F6 F6  [ Faug F6 F6   ]
You've given me the best of you
                   A/E  E  E
And now I need the rest of you


[Outro] solo
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(repeat and fade)