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What A Time Chords by David Scobie

What A Time chords by David Scobie

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  • 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
G
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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
         G
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
C
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
What a time it was

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