WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Stevie Wonder - Pastime Paradise Ukulele | Ver. 1
...PASTIME PARADISE... by Stevie Wonder
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*from 'Songs in the Key of Life' (1976)*
*CAPO 3rd FRET*
(Original Key: D#)
Intro:
C Em B7 Em (x3)
Verse 1:
C Em B7 Em
They've been spending most their lives, living in a Pastime Paradise.
C Em B7 Em
They've been spending most their lives, living in a Pastime Paradise.
C Em B7 Em
They've been wasting most their time, Glori-fying days long gone behind.
C Em
They've been wasting most their days,
B7 Em
In re-membrance of ignorance oldest praise. Tell me...
Chorus 1:
C Em B7 Em
Who of them, will come to be?
C Em B7 Em
How ma-ny of them, are you and me?
C Em B7 Em
Dissi-pation, race re-lations.
C Em B7 Em
Conso-lation, segre-gation.
C Em B7 Em
Dispen-sation, iso-lation, exploi-tation, muti-lation.
C Em B7 Em
Mu-tations, miscre-ation, confir-mation, to the evil's of the world.
Verse 2:
C Em B7 Em
They've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.
C Em B7 Em
They've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.
C Em
They've been looking in their minds,
B7 Em
For the day that sorrow's gone from time.
C Em
They keep telling of the day,
B7 Em
When the Saviour of love will come to stay. Tell me...
Chorus 2:
C Em B7 Em
Who of them, will come to be?
C Em B7 Em
How ma-ny of them, are you and me?
C Em B7 Em
Procla-mation, of Race Re-lations,
C Em B7 Em
Conso-lation, inte-gretion.
C Em B7 Em
Verifi-cation, of Reve-lations, accla-mation, world sal-vation.
C Em B7 Em
Vi-brations, stimu-lation, confir-mation, to the peace of the world.
Verse 3:
C Em B7 Em
They've been spending most their lives, living in a Pastime Paradise.
C Em B7 Em
They've been spending most their lives, living in a Pastime Paradise.
C Em B7 Em
They've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.
C Em B7 Em
They've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.
C Em B7 Em
We've been spending too much of our lives, living in a Pastime Paradise.
C Em B7 Em
Let's start living our lives, living for, the future paradise.
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Praise to our lives, living for, the future paradise.
C Em B7 Em
Shame to anyone's lives, living in the pastime paradise.
Coda: (Hare Krishna and 'We Shall Overcome' chants)
C Em B7 Em
(End on C)
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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C Em B7 Em
EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE
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