Pastime Paradise

Stevie Wonder

Tom: C

(Original Key: Ab)

Intro: F  Dm  E7  Am (x3)

Verse 1:

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

F                     Dm
 They've been wasting most their time,
      E7              Am
Glori-fying days long gone behind.
F                     Dm
 They've been wasting most their days,
      E7                     Am
In re-membrance of ignorance oldest praise.
Tell me...

Chorus 1:

F       Dm         E7      Am
 Who of them, will come to be?
       F     Dm        E7      Am
How ma-ny of them, are you and me?

      F      Dm
Dissi-pation,
        E7      Am
Race re-lations.
      F      Dm
Conso-lation,
      E7     Am
Segre-gation.

       F           Dm
Dispen-sation, iso-lation,
       E7           Dm
Exploi-tation, muti-lation.

   F               Dm
Mu-tations, miscre-ation,
       E7             Am
Confir-mation, to the evils of the world.

Verse 2:

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

F                     Dm
 They've been looking in their minds,
        E7               Am
For the day that sorrows gone from time.
F                  Dm
 They keep telling of the day,
         E7                  Am
When the Savior of love will come to stay.
Tell me...

Chorus 2:

F       Dm         E7      Am
 Who of them, will come to be?
       F     Dm        E7      Am
How ma-ny of them, are you and me?

       F      Dm
Procla-mation,
           E7      Am
Of Race Re-lations,
      F      Dm
Conso-lation,
     E7      Am
Inte-gretion.

       F
Verifi-cation,
        Dm
Of Reve-lations,
      E7
Accla-mation,
          Am
World Sal-vation.

   F               Dm
Vi-brations, stimu-lation,
       E7             Am
Confir-mation, to the peace of the world.

Verse 3:

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

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

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

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

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

F         Dm
 Shame to anyone's lives,
       E7             Am
Living in the pastime paradise.

Coda:

(Haire Krishna and,
'We Shall Overcome' chants)

F  Dm  E7  Am

(End on F)