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-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Artist - Harvey Andrews ************************* Song - The Centurion ********************** Album - The Journey (1997) **************************** Tabbed By - Ayreon77 ********************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuning = Standard --------------- CAPO 2nd FRET --------------- VERSE 1 - No Chord ******** I was born in Nineteen-hundred, Victoria was queen The first of seven children, only three made sweet sixteen It was hard but it was happy, it was roses around the door 'Till we all saluted father, as he went of to the war I was tea boy in the factory the day the news arrived Making mother one more widow, but together we survived Now the century's near over, I've watched it wax and wane And as I recall it all in all, it's a life I'd live again --------------------------- VERSE 2 ********
At 18 I was courting, Mary filled my heart with Cpride Twenty saw us Dmarried, stepping out there side by Gside The work was never easy, but we did it day by Cday Saving ha'pennies and Dfarthings 'til we'd ten pounds put aGway Then the Cslump took jobs and Gsavings, I Chad a lot of Gtime So I Clearned the old mouth Gorgan, "Buddy,F can you spare a Ddime Now the Gcentury's near over, I've watched it wax and Cwane And as DI recall it all in all, it's a life I'd live aGgain D G
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Two sons fast a-growing, Nineteen-twenty-Cfive Mary Dwanted so a daughter, but her health it didn't Gthrive She died that distant summer, but our daughter made it Cthrough UnDtil the influenza took her at the age of Gtwo In the CThirties I was Gbusy, like all Cother folk deGprived Picking Ccoal from off the Gslagheaps, my two Fsons and me surDvived Now the Gcentury's near over, I've watched it wax and Cwane And as DI recall it all in all, it's a life I'd live aGgain D G
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Thirty-six and I met Lucy, we were married in the Cspring The Dboys were new apprenticed and we didn't fear a Gthing It was hard but it was happy, it was roses around the Cdoor 'Til we Dboth saluted my sons as they went off to the Gwar And I Clost one in the Gnavy, a Cconvoy in the GMed Once aCgain for king and Gcountry, our name Fnumbered with the Ddead Now the Gcentury's near over, I've watched it wax and Cwane And as DI recall it all in all, it's a life I'd live aGgain D G
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The other lad was lucky, and in Nineteen-forty-Cfive Me and DLucy lit a candle, giving thanks he was aGlive I turned Fifty then and wondered what the future held in Cstore I'd Dwork on to the pension if we all avoided Gwar Soon my Cson walked down the Gaisle with a Csweet girl as his Gbride And she Cmade me think of GMary as she Fstood there by his Dside Now the Gcentury's near over, I've watched it wax and Cwane And as DI recall it all in all, it's a life I'd live aGgain D G
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I retired in the 60's, the bungalow downCtown Did the Dgardening with Lucy 'til the years just wore her Gdown I lost her then with sorrow, but remember her with Cjoy And I'll Dtake her flowers tomorrow when I go there with the Gboy For he Cis a fine great-Ggrandson, wears his Ccap the wrong way Ground And what CI bought with a Gfarthing, seems to Fcost this kid a Dpound And he Gasks me have I really, really lived the centuCry And I Dwink and whisper ‘nearly’, and that's good enough for Gme
NC ** I was born in Nineteen-hundred, Victoria was queen
The first of seven children, only three made sweet sixteenG
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