Misc Musicals – Tuck Everlasting - Time (Guitar)

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Ab Fm Ab Fm [Verse 1]
Ab
I had a farmhouse

Fm
With a grandfather clock

Ab                      Fm
Where I would teach time to my son

Ab
Our lessons began

   Fm
At twelve o'clock sharp

         Ab    Db               Eb
When the hands would come in as one
[Verse 2]
             B               Gb
I'd say "The big hands count minutes,

     B          Dbm7
it's so tightly wound

   Gb                                      Ab      Db
It chases the small hand, to make hours go round"
[Pre-chorus]
Ab          Fm
I taught Thomas
Constellations in the sky
        Ab        Db          Eb
To tell a silver maple from a cottonwood

 Ab      Fm
I taught Thomas
To divide and multiply
Ab                  Eb
But what he never understood was
[Chorus]
Gb
Time, as I watched him grow

Db
Time, he would never know

Ab                       Db
Time, where my regret resides

Gb
Time, if I only knew

Db
The what and how and who

                   Eb Cm Ab Fm
That time truly divides
[Verse 3]
Ab
There was a farmhouse

Fm
With a grandfather clock

Ab                       Fm
Where one day I woke up alone

Ab
They feared I was magic

Fm
They feared I was cursed

Ab
But mostly they feared the unknown
[Verse 4]
Bb
The big hand's the father

                     Db
The small hand's the son

          Bb    Bbm    Eb
And there never came a time

                        Ab Fm
When they came back as one

Ab                     Fm
I taught Thomas how to catch a firefly

       Ab              Db              Eb
How to make a pebble skip and rowboat skim

Ab                  Fm
She took Thomas and never said goodbye

Ab                    Db            Eb
The one thing I could never give to him
[Chorus]
    Db   Ab
Was time

Db   Eb
Time

Ab   Bbm  Bb   Eb
I'm left with nothing

            Ab Fm
Nothing but time
Ab Fm