Four Tops – A Simple Game (Guitar)

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Song: A simple game Artist: The Four Tops Composer: Mike Pinder Tabbed by: DJ 15th Aug 2012 Motown cover of the 1968 'Moody Blues' song To hear the song, copy and paste this link: Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo: Em = xx2000 B = x24442 Em/B = x22000 B7 = x24242 or x21202 Em7/D = xx0000 D = xx0232 Am = x02210 G = 320033 C = x32010 D7 = xx0212 D7sus4 = xx0213 Please take a second to just scroll down to the bottom of the page and select a star rating for my tab, thanks. ========================================================== [Intro]
   Em  Em/B  Em  Em/B    Em  Em/B  Em  Em/B
|  /    /    /    /   |   /    /    /    /  |
[Verse 1]
Em           Em7/D        Am             C     B     Em
As time goes by, you will see that we're going to be free,

        Em7/D               Am
You and me, we'll touch the sky,

          C      B           Em               Em/D
Can't you see in your mind's eye, that we are one,

               Am               C      B      Em
We're all the same, and life is just a simple game?

[Chorus]
    Em7/D
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)

Am
Doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)

    B                              B7
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo, doo---!)
[Verse 2]
Em                Em7/D                    Am
    There by your side, (Oh, yeah!) I will be, (Oh, yeah!)

          C     B        Em              Em7/D
When this crazy world is free, free from doubt,

              Am             C          B        Em
When it finds out ...exactly what we're meant to be,

            Em7/D              Am
That we are one, we're all the same,

            C      B      Em
And life is just a simple game

[Chorus]
    Em7/D
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)

    Am
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)

B                              B7
Doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---, doo---!)
[Bridge]
C                        Em       D          C     G
Thoughts of another day, flashing through my head------,

C
Thinking how life could be,

Em         D               C              G    D7   D7sus4 
All of the things that our great men have said-----,

D7 D7sus4   Em                     Em7/D
            Be what we want to be, what we deserve to be,

Am              B    B7       Em
What  ...we are meant   ...to be

[Chorus]
    Em7/D
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)

    Am
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)

     B                             B7
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo, doo---!)
[Verse 3]
Em                Em7/D
     As time goes by,  (Oh, yeah!)

         Am                 C     B     Em
You will see  ...that we're going to be free,

        Em7/D               Am
You and me, we'll touch the sky,

          C      B           Em               Em7/D
Can't you see in your mind's eye, that we are one,

              Am                C      B      Em
We're all the same, and life is just a simple game?

[Chorus]
    Em7/D
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)

Am
Doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)

         B                              B7
Oh - oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo, doo---!)
[Coda]
Em
You and me, (You and me...)

      Em7/D
We'll touch the sky!  (...we'll touch the sky!)

    Am
Oh, can't you see?  (Can't you see?)

    B                             B7
Oh, doo - doo, doo!   (Doo - doo, doo, doo---!)

Em
Doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)

    Em7/D
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)

    Am
Oh, doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo---!)

B                              B7              Em
Doo - doo, doo---! (Doo - doo, doo, doo---!)