A Long Time Ago

by Jim Croce

Chords

4.6 (36)

intermediate Tuning: E A D G B E

Version:

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Capo

None

Size

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[Intro]
  [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]Em[/ch]
e|3-----------2-----------|0--------------3--2-----|
B|------0-----------3-----|------0--------------3--|
G|---0-----0-----2-----2--|---0-----0--------------|
D|------------0-----------|------------2-----0-----|
A|------------------3-----|------------------------|
E|3-----------------------|0-----------------------|

  [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G/B[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]
e|0-----------------0-----|2--0-----3--------------|
B|------1-----3-----------|3--3-----0--------------|
G|---0-----0-----0-----0--|---------------------0--|
D|------------------------|0-----------------0h2---|
A|3-----------2-----------|---3-----------0h2------|
E|------------------------|---------3--------------|

Verse

Seems like such a

long time a

I was

walking on a

lone

road

Getting tired of

dreamin' a

lone

Like all the

lonely people

had

known

Seems like such a

long time a

There was

no one who would

song

I was just a

boy far from

home

And I be

came a man when

you

came a

long

Chorus

spent the

whole

night tal

king

You

said you'd

like to

see the

sun

rise

But

in the

gold

of mor

ning

There was nothing

that I

had not

seen in

your

eyes

mm-hm

Bridge

I was so af

raid to touch you

Thought you were too y

oung to know

I just watched you

sleeping

Then you woke and

said to me

The

night is cold, it

frightens me

I could sleep so

easy next to

you

Verse

Wasn't very

long a

You said that

you would like to

road

Then you started

singing my

song

Bridge

You

said so many nigh

ts are waiting

Let's not spend the m

oments wasting

time

'Cause we have

very far to

I will go if

you will take me

I have never

had a lover

I am young but

I am so a

lon