Time in a Bottle on Ukulele: X-Men and Quicksilver

For me the best bit in the latest X-Men movie was when Quicksilver runs around a room so fast that time appears to stop. The music played over this sequence is the poignant "Time In A Bottle". Which is the perfect choice since the singer Jim Croce had died in the 1973, the year the movie is set, aged only 30 in a plane crash. This song was Number One that year. The movie all about changing the past and so the song is perfect.

The sequence is also visually stunning. See the movie, it's worth is for just this. 

Anyhow, here are the chords. 

I don't strum these but kind of pluck them all at once in a kind of waltz (ONE two three) time. 

It's hard to transcribe, I hope it makes sense. 

By the way, the song also featured in the Muppet Show. Watch the age of the Muppet.

Intro:

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open g,  c and a together 4-5-7-8/10-8-7  

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If I could save time in a bottle

    0201                          A7  1-2-4-7-5-4 on c and a

The first thing that I'd like to do

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Is to save every day till eternity passes away

        Gm              A7

Just to spend them with you.

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If I could make days last forever

    0201                          A7  1-2-4-7-5-4

If words could make wishes come true

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I'd save every day like a treasure and then

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Again, I would spend them with you.

          D              Dmaj7

But there never seems to be enough time

4220                 D                    G       Gmaj7 Em7 A7

To do the things you want to do Once you find them

      D             Dmaj7

I've looked around enough to know

    4220               D  G         Gmaj7 Em7 A7

That you're the one I want to go through time with.

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If I had a box just for wishes

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And dreams that had never come true

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The box would be empty except for the memory

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Of how they were answered by you

          D              Dmaj7

But there never seems to be enough time

4220                 D                    G       Gmaj7 Em7 A7

To do the things you want to do Once you find them

      D             Dmaj7

I've looked around enough to know

    4220               D  G         Gmaj7 Em7 A7

That you're the one I want to go through time with.

2 on C with hammer on 1 E 

2 on C with 5th on E and A

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