Toots and the Maytals, originalmente llamados simplemente The Maytals, es un influyente grupo jamaicano de música ska y reggae.
Su líder, Frederick "Toots" Hibbert, nació en May Pen, Clarendon, Jamaica en 1945. Creció cantando música gospel en el coro de una iglesia, pero se trasladó a Kingston en 1961, donde conoció a Henry "Raleigh" Gordon y a Nathaniel "Jerry" McCarthy. Juntos formaron el trío vocal The Maytals. En 1962-63 grabaron el álbum "Never Grow Old - presenting the Maytals"
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...TIME TOUGH... by Toots and the Maytals ----------------.........................
*from 'Funky Kingston' (1973)*
Intro:
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Verse 1:
FC I go to bed, but sleep won't come, FC Get up in the night, I couldn't fight my feelings. FC Early in the morning, it's just the same situ-ation, FC 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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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2009 ([email protected])