{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2815799,"song":"Long Long Time","artist":"Guy Forsyth","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11639720-long-long-time-chords-by-guy-forsyth/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2815799?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"[Chorus]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nIt's been a long, long, long, long[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nLong, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, time[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nIt's been a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, time[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen I was a kid, I used to draw airplanes, with stars and bars shooting down airplanes,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nadorned with hammers and sickles[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI bought a hundred water guns so I could save the world, saving my lunch money[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n and stealing my father's quarters, dimes, and nickels[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI discovered religion watching Luke Skywalker rescue Princess Leia and destroying the Death Star[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nby letting go and closing his eyes[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I devoured comic books, Greek colored mythologies taught me right and wrong,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nand if you believe, you can fly[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nIt's been a long, long, long, long[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nLong, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, time[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nIt's been a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, time[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI remember listening to songs about trains and feeling the rush of wonder at the possibility that the world[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch]\r\n was infinite and accessible all at the same time.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd then it was songs about highways and born to be wild and little red corvette and the road went on[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nforever in my mind[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut now it's clogged bumper to bumper with stinking SUVs and two-story pickup trucks that can drive[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\n over anything except the two-story pickup truck right in front of it[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nNot even the highways look the same, Starbucks and 711s and Walmarts jam the feeder roads.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\n We don't live around this mess, we live under it[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nIt's been a long, long, long, long[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nLong, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, time[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nIt's been a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, time (Since I felt fine)[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nNow all the songs are about gangsters and guns and the TV speeds by at 100 deaths an hour and[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch]\r\neveryone wants to pull off the crime of the century[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSteal two hundred gazillion dollars, enough to buy myself an island and build a real honest-to-God[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\n train on it for no one but me[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd get away with it. Get away with it. We Americans are freedom-loving people[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nand nothing says freedom like getting away with it[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWe went from Billy the Kid to Richard Nixon, Enron, X-on, O.J. Simpson...[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nWe used to dream about heroes, but now it's just how to beat the system[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nSo where to we go to dream now? Up on the roof of the projects, straining through the city lights to see[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nif they've built golden arches on the moon yet?[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nSelf-medicated, Half-sedated, trying our best to stay distracted, living life according to the TV set[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nCorporations owning nations, telling us \"don't change the station, it's the only safe way to win the human[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]\r\nrace.\"[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI wonder how the world sees us, rich beyond compare, powerful without equal, a spoiled, drunk,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch]\r\n15-year-old waving a gun in their face[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nIt's been a long, long, long, long[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nLong, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, time[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nIt's been a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, time[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nIt's been a long, long, long, long[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nLong, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, time[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nIt's been a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, time (Since I felt fine)[/tab]","plain_text":"[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["E","D","B"],"chord_diagrams":{"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}