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Association - Time For Livin guitar chord

"Time For Livin'"

                      (Don Addrisi - Dick Addrisi)

Jim Yester, in the liner notes to the Japanese _From The Original Master

Tapes_ CD (Warner/Pioneer WPCP-3536):

  From the composers of "Never My Love", this is the Addrisi Brothers at

  their fun lovin' best.  This song debuted on "Top Of The Pops" when the

  group was in London.  Unique vocal arrangement drops one half-tone on

  each repeat of the fade.

Intro:

A7sus4 [N.C.]         [A7sus4: 575755]

   /  /  /  /

Bass:

          --3--                   --3--

  v   v   v     v     v   v   v   v

0h2-0h2-------------|-------------------|--

----------4-2-0-----|------------00-0---|-0

----------------2-0-|-------0-2-------2-|--

--------------------|-------------------|--

Verse 1:

D                                        G     A        D

I kicked off my shoes and felt the good earth under my feet

D                                  G             D

I loosened my tie and saw what it feels like to breathe

                       Em   A

I found the secret to life

             Bm

I took some time for livin'

[bass: last bar of intro]

Verse 2:

I took off my watch and found I had all the time in the world

I opened my arms so I could hold life like a beautiful girl

       F#m   F+                   F#m/E     A7/E

I laid down  all of my hangups forever

                Dmaj7

Hey look, I've changed

    Gmaj7             Ebmaj7

My attitude's been rearranged

    Abmaj7

From now on I'm taking some

Chorus:

C   Em         F       G                 C

   Time   for livin', groovin' on everything

Em      F            G

Life is givin', from now on I'm taking

Dbmaj7      Gbmaj7

Time...

    Cbmaj7

For life

[repeat intro]

Verse 3 [chords as per verse 2]:

Too busy to stop and notice the things that are real

Embarassed to talk about all the things that I feel

It's so strange never noticed the world all around me

Hey look, I've changed

My attitude's been rearranged

From now on I'm taking some

Chorus [repeat to fade, half-step lower each time]

C   Em         F       G                 C

   Time   for livin', groovin' on everything

Em      F            G

Life is givin', from now on I'm taking

Dbmaj7      Gbmaj7

Time...

     B

For life

B  D#m   E   F#   B  D#m   E  F#   Cmaj7    Fmaj7

/ / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /

[life]

Bb  Dm   Eb  F    Bb  Dm   Eb  F   Bmaj7    Emaj7

/ / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /

A  C#m   D   E    A  C#m   D   E   Bbmaj7   Ebmaj7

/ / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /

Ab  Cm   Db  Eb   Ab  Cm   Db  Eb  Amaj7    Dmaj7

/ / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /

G   Bm   C   D    G   Bm   C   D  [fade]

/ / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /

-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers

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