What A Time chords by David Scobie
Guitar chords with lyrics
- Difficulty: Beginner 👶
Key: C
🎸 Intro:
C
🎸 Verse:
C
In 1965, the year of the U.D.I.
C
Now who'd have thought the country
G
Would survive or stay alive
G
The UN made us outcasts
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And the British said we couldn't last
C
That we would fall when the oil did not arrive
🎸 Verse:
C
Now, I don't say we were right
C
And I don't say we were wrong
C
I'm just trying to tell it
G
Like it was, in a simple song
G
You see when people love their homeland
G
They regard it as their own land
C
And they fight whether they're right or they are wrong
🎸 Chorus:
C Am G
What a time it was
F G
With so few friends to turn to
C Am G
What a time it was
F G
When all we did was wrong
F G
We'd broken all our bonds
C Am G
And the battle plan was drawn
F
What a time
G C
What a time it was
🎸 Verse:
C
In 1966 saw some ocean politics
C
When two men climbed the Tiger
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To have talks about the talks
G
They talked, and talked, and talked, and talked
G
And talked, and talked some more
C
The negotiations ended in deadlock
🎸 Verse:
C
And in 1970, our republic came to be
C
Solution seemed to fly
G
A little further out of reach
G
But the next year through the gloom
G
Came Sir Alec Douglas-Home
C
And it seemed they found a way across the bridge
🎸 Verse:
C
So in early '72, Lord Pearce and his retinue
C
Arrived to put the nation
G
To a test that they had planned
G
But still it seemed the plan was bad
G
No better than the last they had
C
And those words we heard across the land
🎸 Chorus:
C Am G
What a time it was
F G
With all the world against us
C Am G
What a time it was
F G
When all we did seemed wrong
F G
We'd broken all our bonds
C Am G
And the battle plan was drawn
F
What a time
G C
What a time it was
🎸 Verse:
C
1975, and Mr. Vorster had arrived
C
With President Kaunda
G
For some talks across the falls
G
But nothing there could be resolved
G
The problem still was too involved
C
And the impetus slowed down until it stalled
🎸 Verse:
C
1976 was when cosmopolitics
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Finally put pressure
G
On the players in the game
G
Kissinger's proposal
G
Was broadcast to the nation
C
With one man and one vote the final aim
🎸 Chorus:
C Am G
What a time it was
F G
With so few friends to turn to
C Am G
What a time it was
F G
When all we did seemed wrong
F G
We'd broken all our bonds
C Am G F
And the Battle plan was drawn
F
What a time
G C
What a time it was
🎸 Verse:
C
Now, in 1978, we're still waiting for a sign
C
But we found a way to work it out
G
Within the land
G
We'll never mind the rest
G
What we're doing's for the best
C
And all we want is a peace we understand
🎸 Verse:
C
There'll be votes for all the folks
C
And with sanctions gone, we hope
C
To rebuild this little country
G
To a proud and single nation
G
We've got to end this dreadful war
G
We found what we've been fight for
C
Will the world wake up and stop this conflagration
🎸 Chorus:
C Am G
What a time it's been
F G
With so few friends to turn to
C Am G
What a time it's been
F G
When all we did seemed wrong
F G
We're trying to put things right
C Am G
But the battle still goes on
F
What a time
G C
What a time it was
F
What a time
G C
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