The Time And The Place

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The Time And The Place
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From the acoustic CD "Subway Songs".  Available from the Levellers Official
website (see links).

Transcribed by Lewis Fogerty (LXF887@bham.ac.uk).  Added 3/2/00.


INTRO:
Am, Asus2, Am,
C,  Cmaj7, C,
G,  (X2)


VERSE 1:
(G),	  Am,	    Asus2, Am,	 C,	    Cmaj7, C,	     G,
There's a man on the corner with somebody's daughter and her closest friend,
	   Am,		Asus2, Am,  C,		Cmaj7, C,  G,
When she's come here to score she's been here before she's got the right change,
Am,		   G,		   Am,	         G,	  Am,		   G,
She's no more than fourteen, she's got a life to lead, a lamb there to the slaughter,
	C,	     G,
For the time and the place that she lives,


repeat INTRO


VERSE 2:
Saw a man on the corner go back to that door where he makes the change,
He's been ten feet tall since he left school and made the grade,
And his friends are five years older, but he's too blind to see, He's a lamb being led to the slaughter,
By the time and the place that he lives,


repeat INTRO


BRIDGE:
       Am,	 G,	 C,
And it looks the same to me,
(C)		      G
This whole wide world over,
Am,	 G,	  C,
Millions on their knees,
    (C)		      G,
But non we're looking over,


VERSE 3:
Run to the door, demanding water, feeling grim,
Man on the corner, while he's up to the fall and the law comes in,
Sitting up in his fortress, it's due to hounding him, by the money I've exploited,
The time and the place that he's in,


VERSE 4:
Well she comes back back for more, she's caught by the law, and she starts to sing,
As the man on the corner, you want her for questioning,
The man up in his fortress, what's happening below him, he knows the law won't touch her,
He's the time and the place that he's in,


repeat INTRO


The man up in his fortress,
What's happening below him,
He knows the law won't touch her,
He's the time and the place that he's in,


repeat INTRO

Am