All for the best (video) (midi)

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1. When you feel sad or under a curse,

D D7

your life is bad, your prospects are worse,

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your wife is sighing, crying, and your olive tree is dying,

C B7

temples are greying and teeth are decaying and

D7 G

creditors weighing your purse !

C

2. Your mood and your robe are both a deep blue,

D Dm

you'd bet that job had nothing on you.

F Fm

Don't forget that when you get to

C G#

Heaven, you'll be blessed,

D G C

yes, it's all for the best.

+ G - C - G

C

3. Some men are born to live at ease,

doing what they please, richer than the bees are in honey,

D7

never growing old, never feeling cold, pulling pots of gold from the air.

G7

The best in ev'ry town, best at shaking down,

best at making mountains of money,

C B7 D7 G7

they can't take it with them, but what do they care?

C

4. They get the centre of the meat,

cushions on their seat, houses on a street where it's sunny,

D7

summers at the sea, winters warm and free.

Dm

All of this and we get the rest, but :

F Fm C G#

Who is the land for, the sun and the sand for ?

D7 G7 C

You guessed it's all for the best.

+ repeat verses 1 & 2 + G - C - G (mixed with lyrics from verses 3 & 4)

+ repeat verses 1 & 2 (mixed with lyrics from verses 3 & 4)

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You must never be distressed!

F G C

Yes, it's all for the …. all your wrongs will be redressed !

F G C

Yes, it's all for the …. someone's got to be oppressed !

F G7 C

Yes, it's all for the best !

(Stephen Schwartz, from “Godspell”, 1971.