Stevie Wonder – Pastime Paradise (Guitar)

Capo 3 Video Lesson
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https://open.spotify.com/track/4Gn4b1qJ12rowCNRw5DHM9 from 'Songs in the Key of Life' (1976) Capo III [Intro 1] | N.C. | F | [Intro 2] | F Dm | E Am | | F Dm | E Am | | F Dm | E Am | [Verse 1]
F                       Dm                       E            Am
  They've been spending most their lives, living in a pastime paradise.

F                       Dm                       E            Am
  They've been spending most their lives, living in a pastime paradise.

F                      Dm                     E              Am
  They've been wasting most their time, glorifying days long gone behind.

F                      Dm                   E                      Am
  They've been wasting most their days in remembrance of ignorance oldest praise. Tell me...
[Chorus]
F      Dm        E       Am
Who of them will come to be?

      F     Dm       E       Am
How many of them are you and me?
[Bridge 1]
     F       F        Em/G     Em/G
Dissipation,   race relations,

     F       F      Em/G     Em/G
consolation,   segregation.

      F          Em            Dm          E
Dispensation, isolation, exploitation, mutilation.

  F              Em           Dm             E
Mutations, miscreation, confirmation, to the evils of the world.
[Verse 2]
F                       Dm                       E7            Am
  They've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.

F                       Dm                       E7            Am
  They've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.

F                      Dm                     E7                Am
  They've been looking in their minds for the day that sorrow's gone from time.

F                   Dm                  E7                   Am
  They keep telling of the day when the Saviour of love will come to stay. Tell me...
[Chorus]
F      Dm        E7      Am
Who of them will come to be?

      F     Dm       E7      Am
How many of them are you and me?
[Bridge 2]
      F      F           Em/G     Em/G
Proclamation   of race relations,

     F       F     Em/G   Em/G
consolation,   integration.

      F              Em            Dm               E
Verification, of revelations, acclamation, world salvation.

  F              Em            Dm            E
Vibrations, stimulation, confirmation to the peace of the world.
[Verse 3]
F                       Dm                       E7           Am
  They've been spending most their lives, living in a pastime paradise.

F                       Dm                       E7           Am
  They've been spending most their lives, living in a pastime paradise.

F                       Dm                       E7            Am
  They've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.

F                       Dm                       E7            Am
  They've been spending most their lives, living in the future paradise.

F                         Dm                        E7           Am
  We've been spending too much of our lives, living in a pastime paradise.

F             Dm                       E7             Am
  Let's start living our lives, living for the future paradise.

F        Dm                   E7             Am
  Praise to our lives, living for the future paradise.

F          Dm                     E7             Am
  Shame to anyone's lives, living in the pastime paradise.
[Coda] |(Am) Dm | E Am E Am Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2004 ([email protected])