Time In A Bottle (chromatic)

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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Tab

TIME IN A BOTTLE
By: Jim Croce
Key: F,D

Key: F

-7 -7 -7*   -7   -7 -7* -7 -7 -7
If I could save time in a bot-tle 
-7    7     7    7    7   -7 -7* -7
the first thing that I’d like to do 
-7 -7  -7  -7* -7 -7  
is to save ev-‘ry day 
 -7* -7 8 -7* -7   7  -7 -7* -7  
‘til e-ter-ni-ty pass-es  a-way 
 -7  -7   7    -6   7   -7
just to spend them with you 

Key: D

-7    6   -6* -7  -7   -7 -8 -7 -7    -6*6
But there nev-er seems to be  e-nough time 
-5 -6* -7   -7   -7  -8   -7 -7
to do the things you want to do  
-6*6 -5  -4   -5
once you find them 

 -3    -6*  -7  -7   -7 -8  -7 -6*6
I’ve looked a-round e-nough to know 
 -3    -6*  -7  -7  -7 -8  -7 -6*
that you’re the one I want to go  
 -5  -4    -5
thru time with  

Key: F

-7 -7 -7*   -7   -7  -7*  -7  -7 -7
If I could make days last for-ev-er  
-7   7     7    7     7  -7  -7*  -7 
if words could make wish-es come true 
-7   -7  -7* -7 -7  -7* -7   8   -7* 
I’d save ev-‘ry day like a treas-ure 
-7   7-7 -7 -7 -7  -7     7    -6   7   -7
and then a-gain I would spend them with you

Key: D

-7    6   -6* -7  -7   -7 -8 -7 -7    -6*6
But there nev-er seems to be  e-nough time 
-5 -6* -7   -7   -7  -8   -7 -7
to do the things you want to do  
-6*6 -5  -4   -5
once you find them 

 -3    -6*  -7  -7   -7 -8  -7 -6 6
I’ve looked a-round e-nough to know 
 -3    -6   -7  -7  -7 -8  -7 -6
that you’re the one I want to go  
 -5  -4    -5
thru time with  

Key: F

-7 -7-7* -7 -7  -7* -7   -7  -7
If I had a box just for wish-es 
-7    7     7    7   7  -7 -7*   -7 
and dreams that had nev-er come true 
-7  -7   -7*  -7 -7 -7*
the box would be emp-ty 
-7  8   -7* -7   7   -7
ex-cept for the mem-‘ry 
-7* -7  -7   -7  7    -6   7  -7
of how they were an-swered by you 

Key: D

-7    6   -6* -7  -7   -7 -8 -7 -7    -6*6
But there nev-er seems to be  e-nough time 
-5 -68 -7   -7   -7  -8   -7 -7
to do the things you want to do  
-6*6 -5  -4   -5
once you find them 

 -3    -6*  -7  -7   -7 -8  -7 -6 6
I’ve looked a-round e-nough to know 
 -3    -6   -7  -7  -7 -8  -7 -6
that you’re the one I want to go  
 -5  -4    -5
thru time with

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