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Simple Times
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This song is dedicated to Harmony Christian Church in Georgetown Ky. I would like to thank the Director of Worship Ministries at Harmony (Nell Anne Gossett), for her suggestions. Song updated 5/28/10.
After a music layoff, I rediscovered my Fender Strat, purchased a Zoom PS-02 around 2003 to record some cover songs to play along with and help me practice. With help from other musicians in the Zoom PS-02/PS-04 and Fender Discussion Page (FDP) forums, I started putting some of my ideas into songs.
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Genre
Rock • Folk Rock
Charts
#1,227 in subgenre Peak #7
Charts
Peak #108
Author
John Painter
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John Painter
Uploaded
June 09, 2010
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MP3 2.8 MB • 128 kbps • 3:06
Story behind the song
I originally started this song over a year ago but never could come up with lyrics for the last verse. Then I got the urge to go back and look at this song. When I played it again the lyrics for the last verse fell right out and I wondered why it had been so hard. That weekend I went to church and the minister was starting a new sermon series on Simplifying Our Lives. I thought that was ironic that I had just finished this song which fit that theme. I gave the Director of Worship Ministries the lyrics and a CD and told her she was welcome to use it if she wanted to. She said she was looking for a song to open the service with and thought it fit. She asked me to sing it for the other singers at practice but then said she wanted me to do it.
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Simple Times Intro guitar riff Verse 1 Am Used to be so easy to see Am How my days were gonna be G7 The sun came up the sun went down Am Simple times were all around Verse 2 Now the days just disappear The winds of change are blow’in here The moon came up the moon went down Simple times just can’t be found Break 1 G7 Am G7 Am Hmmmm Hmmmm Verse 3 People running everywhere There’s hardly time to breath the air The ebb and flow have been replaced By a crazy hectic pace Verse 4 People find us everywhere On the ground, in the air Cell phones ring’in left and right Thru the day into the night Break 2 Hmmmm Hmmmm Chorus & guitar F G7 Am Is that the way it has to beeeeee F G7 E E7 Is that the way it has to beeeeee Verse 5 Are there things we need to say? Will there be time later today? Are there things we need to do? Does this sound like me and you? Verse 6 Am Now it seems so clear to me Am From everything I hear and see G7 As basic as it may sound Am Simple times are made not found G7 Am Simple times are made not found
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