Century Girl chords by Fred Smith

Intro:

Gm					      F				       C
I'm going to have to introduce myself, I got no record company produce myself.


Gm							    F
I've been the drummer and I've played the bass now I'm up the front with my


	            C
pretty little face.


Gm					      F
Kept it together through the leaner years, I sang "Stormy Weather" through the

		C
meaner years.


Chorus:

Gm				      F	        	                   C
I've been the sucker of the Century, now I'm the sucker I was meant to be.


Gm                               F                                     C
Born at the turn of the Century, fought in the trenches of Gallipoli.


Gm                               F                                            C
I stood tall while Wall Street crashed though I never ever had a lot of cash.


Gm                            F                                                C
Fought on the beaches of the Second War I landed with MacArthur at Corregidor.


Gm                            F                                           C
My arse got burnt when Saigon fell, reeducation was another kind of hell.


D  Eb

Chorus:

Bb            Eb                 Gm                            F
Century Girl, I'm checking out, is there much left for us to talk about?


Bb            Fb               Gm                  F                  C
I'll call back in from planet Earth, the self-same child I was upon my birth.


Verse 3:

Gm				      F					C
I've been a sailor of the Seven Seas, I was a hippie in the Seventies.


Gm					       F         			C
I shot the sheriff and I fought the law, I've been the hooker to the whore.


Gm					  F
I've been Catholic and I've been Zen, I've been the Buddha since Christ knows


	C
when.


Chorus:

Gm					  F					     C
I've been to Babylon, I've been to Rome, I've been travelling but now I'm home.


Bb            Eb                 Gm                            F
Century Girl, I'm checking out, is there much left for us to talk about?


Bb            Fb               Gm                   F               C
I'll call back in from planet Earth, the self-same child I was upon my birth.


Gm						F
I've seen a bucketload of shit go down, I've been the President I've been the


	C
clown.


Bridge:

Gm			        F			            C
I"ve seen a bucket of futility, don't need to demonstrate virility.


Gm					F						C
Still I ain't bitter, and I ain't green, and I'm feeling fitter than I've ever been.


Gm			              F				          C
I've been the sucker of the century, now I'm the sucker I was meant to be.


Outro:

Bb        Eb               Gm                   F
Century Girl, I'm checking out, is there much left for us to talk about?


Bb            Fb                Gm                    F             C
I'll call back in from planet Earth, the self-same child I was upon my birth.



Bb            Eb         Gm                     F
Century Girl, I'm checking out, is there much left for us to talk about?


Bb            Fb               Gm                  F                C
I'll call back in from planet Earth, the self-same child I was upon my birth.