What A Time chords by David Scobie

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: C majorC

🎸 Intro:

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🎸 Verse:
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In 1965, the year of the U.D.I.
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Now who'd have thought the country
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Would survive or stay alive
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The UN made us outcasts
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And the British said we couldn't last
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That we would fall when the oil did not arrive

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Now, I don't say we were right
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And I don't say we were wrong
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I'm just trying to tell it
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Like it was, in a simple song
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You see when people love their homeland
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They regard it as their own land
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And they fight whether they're right or they are wrong

🎸 Chorus:
C majorC        A minorAm G+G
What a time it was
FF            G+G
With so few friends to turn to
C majorC        A minorAm G+G
What a time it was
FF           G+G
When all we did was wrong
    FF       G+G
We'd broken all our bonds
     C majorC        A minorAm G+G
And the battle plan was drawn
FF
What a time
G+G        C majorC
What a time it was

🎸 Verse:
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In 1966 saw some ocean politics
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When two men climbed the Tiger
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To have talks about the talks
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They talked, and talked, and talked, and talked
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And talked, and talked some more
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The negotiations ended in deadlock

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And in 1970, our republic came to be
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Solution seemed to fly
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A augmentedA little further out of reach
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But the next year through the gloom
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Came Sir Alec Douglas-Home
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And it seemed they found a way across the bridge

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So in early '72, Lord Pearce and his retinue
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Arrived to put the nation
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To a test that they had planned
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But still it seemed the plan was bad
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No better than the last they had
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And those words we heard across the land

🎸 Chorus:
C majorC        A minorAm G+G
What a time it was
FF          G+G
With all the world against us
C majorC        A minorAm G+G
What a time it was
FF            G+G
When all we did seemed wrong
    FF       G+G
We'd broken all our bonds
     C majorC        A minorAm G+G
And the battle plan was drawn
FF
What a time
G+G        C majorC
What a time it was

🎸 Verse:
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1975, and Mr. Vorster had arrived
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With President Kaunda
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For some talks across the falls
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But nothing there could be resolved
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The problem still was too involved
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And the impetus slowed down until it stalled

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1976 was when cosmopolitics
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Finally put pressure
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On the players in the game
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Kissinger's proposal
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Was broadcast to the nation
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With one man and one vote the final aim

🎸 Chorus:
C majorC        A minorAm G+G
What a time it was
FF          G+G
With so few friends to turn to
C majorC        A minorAm G+G
What a time it was
FF            G+G
When all we did seemed wrong
    FF       G+G
We'd broken all our bonds
C majorC             A minorAm G+G FF
And the Battle plan was drawn
FF
What a time
G+G        C majorC
What a time it was

🎸 Verse:
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Now, in 1978, we're still waiting for a sign
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But we found a way to work it out
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Within the land
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We'll never mind the rest
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What we're doing's for the best
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And all we want is a peace we understand

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There'll be votes for all the folks
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And with sanctions gone, we hope
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To rebuild this little country
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To a proud and single nation
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We've got to end this dreadful war
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We found what we've been fight for
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Will the world wake up and stop this conflagration

🎸 Chorus:
C majorC         A minorAm G+G
What a time it's been
FF            G+G
With so few friends to turn to
C majorC         A minorAm G+G
What a time it's been
FF            G+G
When all we did seemed wrong
FF              G+G
We're trying to put things right
     C majorC        A minorAm G+G
But the battle still goes on
FF
What a time
G+G        C majorC
What a time it was
FF
What a time
G+G        C majorC
What a time it was