Donovan – There Was A Time (Guitar)

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From 'A Gift from a Flower to a Garden' (1968) [Verse 1]
G                  G/F#              Em
 There was a time, I thought of mine only.

G                G/F#               Em
 Could it be, oc-curred to me while lonely.
[Chorus 1]
C            Bm         Em             C
 I was noble personage, born to beauti-fy the page.

   Em     C              Em   C  D7
If I used time to set it down.
[Verse 2]
G                  G/F#              Em
 There was a time, I thought of mine only.

G                G/F#               Em
 Could it be, oc-curred to me while lonely.
[Chorus 2]
C              Bm       Em           C
 I was of high lineage, cast up in a dreadful age.

Em              C            Em   C  D7
 Born to be the hermit of my line.
[Bridge 1]
Bm          F#m      Bm           F#m
 On a windy saturday, St. Alban's market day.

Em                            C/G
 Little did I know the work I was to do,

       Bm            Em    D7
Or the love I had to show.
[Verse 3]
G                  G/F#              Em
 There was a time, I thought of mine only.

G                G/F#               Em
 Could it be, oc-curred to me while lonely.
[Chorus 3]
C              Bm       Em           C
 I was of high lineage, cast up in a dreadful age.

Em              C            Em   C  D7
 Born to be the hermit of my line.
[Outro] G G/F# Em