Chords for Jim Croce - Time In A Bottle | The Story Behind The Song | Top 2000 a gogo
Tempo:
72.9 bpm
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[D] I'm Jim Croce and I live [G] here.
You know, [Bb] I've spent about 10, 11 [B] years playing in [D] bars, fraternity parties,
doing rock and roll, [F] country and western, [G] bluegrass.
That screaming you're hearing [Bb] back in there is my little boy Adrian [A] James
[D] trying to sing.
Hey, why don't you bring him out?
[Dm] If I could save time [C] in a bottle
It [Gm] was about four [Gbm] o'clock in the morning.
My [A] stepmom called and said
Are you [D] awake?
And I went no, but I've been having this terrible dream that I was trying to reach Jim and I couldn't get him.
[B] And she said there was a plane crash.
And I said and [Db] Jim's dead, right?
[F] And she said yes, and I [Bb] and Mari too?
And she [B] said everyone on the plane died.
And I just the first [Dm] thing that hit me is that AJ wouldn't have a father.
I mean more so than [Gm] me as much as I would miss Jim.
I just [Dm] made me so sad that he [Gm] wouldn't know his dad.
[A] [D] But there never [Gbm] seems to be enough time to do the [D] things you want to [G] do once you find them.
[Em] [G] Looked [A] around enough to know [G] that you're the one I [D] want to go through time [Em] with.
I've always loved my [Dm] father's music and he was always [Am] an influence as a songwriter.
It's new for me to [D] play any of it because [A] most of [Bb] my career I wanted to
[E]
sort of find my own identity and and be able to do my own music and
and so for me it took [Dm] time.
[Em] I went to a doctor to find out if I could get pregnant and
[Ab] after he examined me he told me that I was pregnant.
And I told Jim and Jim had this look of kind of utter fear and [E] excitement
because he knew that if we were going to have a child he needed to become a professional musician and
that night he sat down at the kitchen table and he started to write Time in a Bottle.
Time in a Bottle was so ominous because you hear the opening lines, you hear the opening
piece and it's sort of this iconic piece of music and [D] when I added to that the
thought that it was written for me it had a very strong emotional, I don't know, I was very [G] afraid of it.
[Gm] And then finally [B]
I [A] just decided to learn it one [D] day.
If I [F] could save time in a bottle
[G] [Gm] first thing that I'd like to do [Dm]
is to save every day [Gm] till eternity passes [F] away
just to spend them with you.
[Dm] First [Am] couple times I sang it I was just too [Em] emotional to to be [A] able to
[D] really to perform it well.
[Gb] But it's still whenever I think about it it affects the performance.
I have to set [Fm] that aside and treat it like a piece of music [A] that's another piece of music.
No, not very well.
It's very hard.
It's very hard.
[Em]
The [B] only way that Jim and I really could communicate [Bb] was through our music.
It was the thing that had initially brought us together [Db] at a
at a Hootenanny when he was the judge for the contest that I was in.
[D]
[E] Whenever we sang music it was like making love.
[F]
[C]
[F] Well I think my [C] mom was really very supportive of me playing music.
At six years old he was playing piano and writing his own songs and you know by the [F] time he was 15
he was on the road and performing.
I think she would have liked that I would have you know finished [D] school and gone to college
but I had an opportunity to follow my dream of playing music when I was very very young.
You know he said mom that was [F] my choice should I go out on the road with Ray Charles right now
I can do [Bb] this or should I go to college and I'm like [F] well it's up to you.
[C] She's my life.
[D]
That night right [G] before he got into the [Gm] plane he [Dbm] just wanted to call and I said Jim I can't
[Bb] talk right now I've got to go but please call me back please give me a call and he [D] said Ing I love
you and that was the last thing that Jim [A] ever said to me.
[Gm] [Dm] And not until I [Gm] received the letter that he [G] wrote.
It came after AJ [A] and I had gotten back from the funeral.
[B] It reads, Dear Ing, I know I haven't been very nice to you for some time
[G] and when I get back everything [Bm] will be different.
We're going to have a life together Ing [B] I promise.
I'm going to concentrate on my health.
I'm going to become a public hermit.
I'm going to get my master's degree.
I'm [G] going to write short stories and movie scripts.
Who knows I might even get a tan.
Give [Dm] a kiss to my little man and tell him daddy loves him.
Remember it's the first 60 years that count and I've got 30 to go.
I love you.
Jim.
[E]
You know, [Bb] I've spent about 10, 11 [B] years playing in [D] bars, fraternity parties,
doing rock and roll, [F] country and western, [G] bluegrass.
That screaming you're hearing [Bb] back in there is my little boy Adrian [A] James
[D] trying to sing.
Hey, why don't you bring him out?
[Dm] If I could save time [C] in a bottle
It [Gm] was about four [Gbm] o'clock in the morning.
My [A] stepmom called and said
Are you [D] awake?
And I went no, but I've been having this terrible dream that I was trying to reach Jim and I couldn't get him.
[B] And she said there was a plane crash.
And I said and [Db] Jim's dead, right?
[F] And she said yes, and I [Bb] and Mari too?
And she [B] said everyone on the plane died.
And I just the first [Dm] thing that hit me is that AJ wouldn't have a father.
I mean more so than [Gm] me as much as I would miss Jim.
I just [Dm] made me so sad that he [Gm] wouldn't know his dad.
[A] [D] But there never [Gbm] seems to be enough time to do the [D] things you want to [G] do once you find them.
[Em] [G] Looked [A] around enough to know [G] that you're the one I [D] want to go through time [Em] with.
I've always loved my [Dm] father's music and he was always [Am] an influence as a songwriter.
It's new for me to [D] play any of it because [A] most of [Bb] my career I wanted to
[E]
sort of find my own identity and and be able to do my own music and
and so for me it took [Dm] time.
[Em] I went to a doctor to find out if I could get pregnant and
[Ab] after he examined me he told me that I was pregnant.
And I told Jim and Jim had this look of kind of utter fear and [E] excitement
because he knew that if we were going to have a child he needed to become a professional musician and
that night he sat down at the kitchen table and he started to write Time in a Bottle.
Time in a Bottle was so ominous because you hear the opening lines, you hear the opening
piece and it's sort of this iconic piece of music and [D] when I added to that the
thought that it was written for me it had a very strong emotional, I don't know, I was very [G] afraid of it.
[Gm] And then finally [B]
I [A] just decided to learn it one [D] day.
If I [F] could save time in a bottle
[G] [Gm] first thing that I'd like to do [Dm]
is to save every day [Gm] till eternity passes [F] away
just to spend them with you.
[Dm] First [Am] couple times I sang it I was just too [Em] emotional to to be [A] able to
[D] really to perform it well.
[Gb] But it's still whenever I think about it it affects the performance.
I have to set [Fm] that aside and treat it like a piece of music [A] that's another piece of music.
No, not very well.
It's very hard.
It's very hard.
[Em]
The [B] only way that Jim and I really could communicate [Bb] was through our music.
It was the thing that had initially brought us together [Db] at a
at a Hootenanny when he was the judge for the contest that I was in.
[D]
[E] Whenever we sang music it was like making love.
[F]
[C]
[F] Well I think my [C] mom was really very supportive of me playing music.
At six years old he was playing piano and writing his own songs and you know by the [F] time he was 15
he was on the road and performing.
I think she would have liked that I would have you know finished [D] school and gone to college
but I had an opportunity to follow my dream of playing music when I was very very young.
You know he said mom that was [F] my choice should I go out on the road with Ray Charles right now
I can do [Bb] this or should I go to college and I'm like [F] well it's up to you.
[C] She's my life.
[D]
That night right [G] before he got into the [Gm] plane he [Dbm] just wanted to call and I said Jim I can't
[Bb] talk right now I've got to go but please call me back please give me a call and he [D] said Ing I love
you and that was the last thing that Jim [A] ever said to me.
[Gm] [Dm] And not until I [Gm] received the letter that he [G] wrote.
It came after AJ [A] and I had gotten back from the funeral.
[B] It reads, Dear Ing, I know I haven't been very nice to you for some time
[G] and when I get back everything [Bm] will be different.
We're going to have a life together Ing [B] I promise.
I'm going to concentrate on my health.
I'm going to become a public hermit.
I'm going to get my master's degree.
I'm [G] going to write short stories and movie scripts.
Who knows I might even get a tan.
Give [Dm] a kiss to my little man and tell him daddy loves him.
Remember it's the first 60 years that count and I've got 30 to go.
I love you.
Jim.
[E]
Key:
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_ [D] I'm Jim Croce and I live [G] here.
You know, [Bb] I've spent about 10, 11 [B] years playing in [D] bars, fraternity parties,
doing rock and roll, [F] country and western, [G] bluegrass.
That screaming you're hearing [Bb] back in there is my little boy Adrian [A] James
[D] trying to sing.
Hey, why don't you bring him out?
[Dm] If I could save time [C] in a bottle
It [Gm] was about four [Gbm] o'clock in the morning.
My [A] stepmom called and said
Are you [D] awake?
And I went no, but I've been having this terrible dream that I was trying to reach Jim and I couldn't get him.
[B] And she said there was a plane crash.
And I said and [Db] Jim's dead, right?
[F] And she said yes, and I [Bb] and Mari too?
And she [B] said everyone on the plane died.
And I just the first [Dm] thing that hit me is that AJ wouldn't have a father.
I mean more so than [Gm] me as much as I would miss Jim.
I just [Dm] made me so sad that he [Gm] wouldn't know his dad.
[A] _ [D] But there never [Gbm] seems to be enough time to do the [D] things you want to [G] do once you find them.
_ [Em] _ _ [G] _ Looked [A] around enough to know [G] that you're the one I [D] want to go through time [Em] with. _
I've always loved my [Dm] father's music and he was always [Am] an influence as a songwriter.
It's new for me to [D] play any of it because [A] most of [Bb] my career I wanted to
_ _ [E]
sort of find my own identity and and be able to do my own music and
_ and so for me it took [Dm] time.
[Em] I went to a doctor to find out if I could get pregnant and
[Ab] after he examined me he told me that I was pregnant.
And I told Jim and Jim had this look of kind of utter fear and [E] excitement
because he knew that if we were going to have a child he needed to become a professional musician and
that night he sat down at the kitchen table and he started to write Time in a Bottle.
Time in a Bottle was so ominous because you hear the opening lines, you hear the opening
piece and it's sort of this iconic piece of music and [D] when I added to that the
thought that it was written for me it had a very strong emotional, _ I don't know, I was very [G] afraid of it.
[Gm] And then finally [B]
I [A] just decided to learn it one [D] day.
If I [F] could save time in a bottle
[G] _ [Gm] first thing that I'd like to do [Dm]
is to save every day [Gm] till eternity passes [F] away
just to spend them with you.
_ _ [Dm] First [Am] couple times I sang it I was just too [Em] emotional to to be [A] able to _ _
[D] really to perform it well.
_ [Gb] But it's still whenever I think about it it affects the performance.
I have to set [Fm] that aside and treat it like a piece of music [A] that's another piece of music.
No, not very well.
It's very hard.
It's very hard.
_ [Em] _
The [B] only way that Jim and I really could communicate [Bb] was through our music.
It was the thing that had initially brought us together [Db] at a
at a Hootenanny when he was the judge for the contest that I was in.
_ [D] _
_ _ [E] Whenever we sang music it was like making love.
[F] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ Well I think my [C] mom was really very supportive of me playing music.
At six years old he was playing piano and writing his own songs and you know by the [F] time he was 15
he was on the road and performing.
I think she would have liked that I would have you know finished [D] school and gone to college
but I had an opportunity to follow my dream of playing music when I was very very young.
You know he said mom that was [F] my choice should I go out on the road with Ray Charles right now
I can do [Bb] this or should I go to college and I'm like [F] well it's up to you.
[C] She's my _ life.
_ _ _ [D] _
That night right [G] before he got into the [Gm] plane he [Dbm] just wanted to call and I said Jim I can't
[Bb] talk right now I've got to go but please call me back please give me a call and he [D] said Ing I love
you and that was the last thing that Jim [A] ever said to me. _ _
[Gm] _ _ [Dm] And not until I [Gm] received the letter _ that he [G] wrote.
It came after AJ [A] and I had gotten back from the funeral.
[B] It reads, Dear Ing, I know I haven't been very nice to you for some time
[G] and when I get back everything [Bm] will be different.
We're going to have a life together Ing [B] I promise.
I'm going to concentrate on my health.
I'm going to become a public hermit.
I'm going to get my master's degree.
I'm [G] going to write short stories and movie scripts.
Who knows I might even get a tan.
Give [Dm] a kiss to my little man and tell him daddy loves him.
Remember it's the first 60 years that count and I've got 30 to go.
I love you.
Jim. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
You know, [Bb] I've spent about 10, 11 [B] years playing in [D] bars, fraternity parties,
doing rock and roll, [F] country and western, [G] bluegrass.
That screaming you're hearing [Bb] back in there is my little boy Adrian [A] James
[D] trying to sing.
Hey, why don't you bring him out?
[Dm] If I could save time [C] in a bottle
It [Gm] was about four [Gbm] o'clock in the morning.
My [A] stepmom called and said
Are you [D] awake?
And I went no, but I've been having this terrible dream that I was trying to reach Jim and I couldn't get him.
[B] And she said there was a plane crash.
And I said and [Db] Jim's dead, right?
[F] And she said yes, and I [Bb] and Mari too?
And she [B] said everyone on the plane died.
And I just the first [Dm] thing that hit me is that AJ wouldn't have a father.
I mean more so than [Gm] me as much as I would miss Jim.
I just [Dm] made me so sad that he [Gm] wouldn't know his dad.
[A] _ [D] But there never [Gbm] seems to be enough time to do the [D] things you want to [G] do once you find them.
_ [Em] _ _ [G] _ Looked [A] around enough to know [G] that you're the one I [D] want to go through time [Em] with. _
I've always loved my [Dm] father's music and he was always [Am] an influence as a songwriter.
It's new for me to [D] play any of it because [A] most of [Bb] my career I wanted to
_ _ [E]
sort of find my own identity and and be able to do my own music and
_ and so for me it took [Dm] time.
[Em] I went to a doctor to find out if I could get pregnant and
[Ab] after he examined me he told me that I was pregnant.
And I told Jim and Jim had this look of kind of utter fear and [E] excitement
because he knew that if we were going to have a child he needed to become a professional musician and
that night he sat down at the kitchen table and he started to write Time in a Bottle.
Time in a Bottle was so ominous because you hear the opening lines, you hear the opening
piece and it's sort of this iconic piece of music and [D] when I added to that the
thought that it was written for me it had a very strong emotional, _ I don't know, I was very [G] afraid of it.
[Gm] And then finally [B]
I [A] just decided to learn it one [D] day.
If I [F] could save time in a bottle
[G] _ [Gm] first thing that I'd like to do [Dm]
is to save every day [Gm] till eternity passes [F] away
just to spend them with you.
_ _ [Dm] First [Am] couple times I sang it I was just too [Em] emotional to to be [A] able to _ _
[D] really to perform it well.
_ [Gb] But it's still whenever I think about it it affects the performance.
I have to set [Fm] that aside and treat it like a piece of music [A] that's another piece of music.
No, not very well.
It's very hard.
It's very hard.
_ [Em] _
The [B] only way that Jim and I really could communicate [Bb] was through our music.
It was the thing that had initially brought us together [Db] at a
at a Hootenanny when he was the judge for the contest that I was in.
_ [D] _
_ _ [E] Whenever we sang music it was like making love.
[F] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ Well I think my [C] mom was really very supportive of me playing music.
At six years old he was playing piano and writing his own songs and you know by the [F] time he was 15
he was on the road and performing.
I think she would have liked that I would have you know finished [D] school and gone to college
but I had an opportunity to follow my dream of playing music when I was very very young.
You know he said mom that was [F] my choice should I go out on the road with Ray Charles right now
I can do [Bb] this or should I go to college and I'm like [F] well it's up to you.
[C] She's my _ life.
_ _ _ [D] _
That night right [G] before he got into the [Gm] plane he [Dbm] just wanted to call and I said Jim I can't
[Bb] talk right now I've got to go but please call me back please give me a call and he [D] said Ing I love
you and that was the last thing that Jim [A] ever said to me. _ _
[Gm] _ _ [Dm] And not until I [Gm] received the letter _ that he [G] wrote.
It came after AJ [A] and I had gotten back from the funeral.
[B] It reads, Dear Ing, I know I haven't been very nice to you for some time
[G] and when I get back everything [Bm] will be different.
We're going to have a life together Ing [B] I promise.
I'm going to concentrate on my health.
I'm going to become a public hermit.
I'm going to get my master's degree.
I'm [G] going to write short stories and movie scripts.
Who knows I might even get a tan.
Give [Dm] a kiss to my little man and tell him daddy loves him.
Remember it's the first 60 years that count and I've got 30 to go.
I love you.
Jim. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _