Biography:
Jamaican ska vocal group The Maytals became a reggae band in 1971, renamed Toots and The Maytals with Toots Hibbert (Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert) as front figure. The band won a 2005 Grammy award for the album True Love. Funky Kingston in early 70s is on Rolling Stone's list The Greatest Albums of All Time. The bass line in "54-46" is one of the most covered in pop music. Songs such as "Monkey Man", "Pressure Drop", "Bam Bam", among others, made them favorites for the early skinhead movement of white working-class youth in UK.
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Other songs:
- Monkey Man
- Sweet And Dandy
- Take Me Home Country Roads
- 54 46 Thats My Number
- 54 46 Was My Number
- Celia
- Country Roads
- Dilly Dally
- In The Dark
- It Must Be True Love
- Its You
- Love Gonna Walk Out On Me
- Love Is Gonna Let Me Down
- Pomp And Pride
- Pressure Drop
- Redemption Songs
- Reggae Got Soul
- Sailing On
- Shes My Scorcher
- Still Is Still Moving To Me
- Time Tough
- Walk With Love
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...TIME TOUGH... by Toots and the Maytals
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*from 'Funky Kingston' (1973)*
Intro:
C
Verse 1:
F C
I go to bed, but sleep won't come,
F C
Get up in the night, I couldn't fight my feelings.
F C
Early in the morning, it's just the same situ-ation,
F C
Here comes the landlord, just a-knocking upon my door.
F
I've got four hundred/month rent to pay,
C
And I can't find a job. Let me, let me tell you:
Chorus 1:
F
Time tough, (time tough),
C
Everything is out of sight, it's so hard, (so hard, so hard, so hard).
F
Time tough, (time tough),
C
Everything is growing higher and higher, (higher and higher).
Verse 2:
F
Sister lee cannot bear it,
C
And brother Lincoln only stand it, now.
F
They're crying night and day, louder and louder,
C
Nobody to help them make their way.
F
I've got four hundred/month rent to pay,
C
And I can't find a dollar. Let me, let me tell you;
Chorus 2:
F
Time tough, (time tough),
C
Everything is out of sight, it's so hard, (so hard, so hard, so hard).
F
Time hard, (time hard),
C
Everything is growing higher and higher, (higher and higher).
Verse 3:
F
Good times once lead into bad times,
C
But now the bad times take over.
F
When I was a little boy,
C
I just keep on feeling it, feeling it, feeling it, feeling it...
(Fade)
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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C F
EADGBE EADGBE
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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2009 ([email protected])
----------------.........................
*from 'Funky Kingston' (1973)*
Intro:
C
Verse 1:
F C
I go to bed, but sleep won't come,
F C
Get up in the night, I couldn't fight my feelings.
F C
Early in the morning, it's just the same situ-ation,
F C
Here comes the landlord, just a-knocking upon my door.
F
I've got four hundred/month rent to pay,
C
And I can't find a job. Let me, let me tell you:
Chorus 1:
F
Time tough, (time tough),
C
Everything is out of sight, it's so hard, (so hard, so hard, so hard).
F
Time tough, (time tough),
C
Everything is growing higher and higher, (higher and higher).
Verse 2:
F
Sister lee cannot bear it,
C
And brother Lincoln only stand it, now.
F
They're crying night and day, louder and louder,
C
Nobody to help them make their way.
F
I've got four hundred/month rent to pay,
C
And I can't find a dollar. Let me, let me tell you;
Chorus 2:
F
Time tough, (time tough),
C
Everything is out of sight, it's so hard, (so hard, so hard, so hard).
F
Time hard, (time hard),
C
Everything is growing higher and higher, (higher and higher).
Verse 3:
F
Good times once lead into bad times,
C
But now the bad times take over.
F
When I was a little boy,
C
I just keep on feeling it, feeling it, feeling it, feeling it...
(Fade)
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
---------------
C F
EADGBE EADGBE
x35553 133211
Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2009 ([email protected])
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