It's About Time

Words by John Denver
Music by John Denver & Glen Hardin
from It's About Time (1983)



Am    Em     F         C/G           G
   
	   C
There's a full moon over India
     F
And Gandhi lives again
  G       F/A     G/B
Who's to say you have to lose
     C               G(no 5th)
For someone else to win
       C
In the eyes of all the people
     F
The look is much the same
	 G       F/A        G/B
For the first is just the last one 
	   C            C7
When you play a deadly game

	    F          G
It's about time we realize it
      C
We're all in this together
	    F        G
It's about time we find out
      C            C7
It's all of us or none
	    F            G
It's about time we recognize it
	C      G/B         Am
These changes in the weather
C/G         F                 Dm7
It's about time, it's about changes
    G7          C
And it's about time

	   C       
There's a light in the Vatican window
    F
For all the world to see
       G          F/A     G/B
And a voice cries in the wilderness
     C                   G(no 5th)
Sometimes he speaks for me
      C           
I suppose I love him most of all
	  F
When he kneels to kiss the land
	  G             G/B
With his lips upon our Mother's breast
    C                    C7
He makes his strongest stand
		  
	    F                G
It's about time we start to see it
     C
The earth is our only home
	    F                G
It's about time we start to face it
	  C                 C7
We can't make it here all alone
	    F                G
It's about time we start to listen
	C     G/B     Am
To the voices in the wind
C/G         F                    Dm7
It's about time and it's about changes
    G7          C
And it's about time

Am       Em      F             C/G              G

	   C
There's a man who is my brother
   F
I just don't know his name
	G       F/A      G/B
But I know his home and family
	    C               G(no 5th)
Because I know we feel the same
	C
And it hurts me when he's hungry
      F
And when his children cry
G
I too, am a father
      C             C7
That little one is mine

	    F         G
It's about time we begin it
    C
To turn the world around
	    F                G
It's about time we start to make it
      C                  C7
The dream we've always known
	    F                G
It's about time we start to live it
     C   C/B   Am
The family of man
C/G         F                 Dm7
It's about time, it's about changes
    G7          C
And it's about time
	    F                     G
It's about peace and it's about plenty
    G7          C
And it's about time
	    F            G
It's about you and me together
    G7          C
And it's about time