James Taylor – Before This Worldjolly Springtime (Guitar)

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"Before This World"(2015) Submitted by ClassicalfreaK INTRO Dm Bb C
F Bb       C       F/A      Bb      C
Before this world was as we know it now

F    Gm             Dm       Bb        C
Before the land and sea were formed at all

F    F9             Bb        Gm       C
Before the stars were made to burn and shine

Dm     Gm9         Bb        C   F/C C
Little love of mine, darling one

F Bb    C         F/A   Bb       C
Who can pretend to understand at all

F  Dm             Gm       Bb      C
No one can both inside and outside be

F  F9           Bb           Gm       C
Who can suppose he knows the way this goes

Dm   Gm     Bb    Gm7      C F/C C
 oh, little lamb, never mind

F Bb C            F/A     Bb    C
So let us love and let us not delay

F    Gm          Bb          Gm7   C
The world is old and it will never last

F   F9              Bb      Gm7    C
Our share of joy is in this moment past

Dm       Gm                F/A Bb Gm    C  F/C C
Will you come away, (come away)    come away

F  Bb C          F/A Bb C
Fall into Jesus baby    child

F      Dm             Gm        Bb          C
Give up the love that takes and breaks your heart

F   F9               Bb       Gm7       C
Let go the weight of all that holds you here

Dm     Gm                     F/A Bb Gm      C F/C C
Little love of mine, (love of mine) darling one
F F9 Bb Gm C Dm Gm9 Bb Gm C || C F/C G/C C F/A Bb F/A Bb Dm C F/A Bb Gm Bb C F/C G/C C Bb F/A Bb Dm C F/A Bb Gm Bb C F/C G/C C F/A Bb Dm G2 F/A Bb Dm Eb F/A Bb Dm Eb F G2 [faster]
G
Oh the jolly springtime

                 C        D
Oh, in the merry month of May

G            C
Oh the heavenly hours

CM7    D          G
Oh the come again day

G
Oh the jolly springtime

             C        D
In the merry month of May

G            C
Oh the heavenly hours

CM7    D          G
Oh the come again day

Em      D/F#    G
Let the day run long

G/B     CM7       D
Let the river run high

G                 C
That tomorrow may live

        D         G
So must yesterday die

Em      D/F#         G
Let the resin risin' up in the tree

G/B      CM7        D
Make the green leaf bud

    G7           G7/B        C
The bird and the bee and the fish in the sea

C          D     G
Feeling it in my blood

G
Oh the jolly springtime

             C        D
In the merry month of May

G            C
Oh the heavenly hours

CM7    D          G
Oh the come again day

Em      D/F#       G
Yes the winter was bitter and long

       CM7          D
So the spring'll be sweet

G                 C
Come along with a rhythm and a song

C     D        G
Watch creation repeat

Em    D/F#      G
Thin, thin, the moment is thin

        CM7        D
Ever so narrow the now

G         G7/B         C
Everybody say, "got to live in today,"

CM7     D         G
Don't nobody know how

G
Oh the jolly springtime

             C        D
In the merry month of May

G            C
Oh the heavenly hours

CM7    D          G
Oh the come again day

G
Oh the jolly springtime

             C        D
In the merry month of May

G            C
Oh the heavenly hours

CM7    D          G
Oh the come again day
[fade tenor drum]