{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1899545,"song":"The Centurion","artist":"Harvey Andrews","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11425180-the-centurion-chords-by-harvey-andrews/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1899545?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"--------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\nTuning = Standard\r\n\r\n\r\n---------------\r\nCAPO 2nd FRET\r\n---------------\r\n\r\n\r\nVERSE 1 - No Chord\r\nI was born in Nineteen-hundred, Victoria was queen \r\nThe first of seven children, only three made sweet sixteen \r\nIt was hard but it was happy, it was roses around the door \r\n'Till we all saluted father, as he went of to the war \r\nI was tea boy in the factory the day the news arrived \r\nMaking mother one more widow, but together we survived \r\nNow the century's near over, I've watched it wax and wane\r\nAnd as I recall it all in all, it's a life I'd live again \r\n\r\n\r\n---------------------------\r\nVERSE 2\r\n[tab]                                                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAt 18 I was courting, Mary filled my heart with pride [/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]D[/ch]                                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTwenty saw us married, stepping out there side by side [/tab]\r\n[tab]                                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe work was never easy, but we did it day by day [/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]D[/ch]                                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSaving ha'pennies and farthings 'til we'd ten pounds put away [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThen the slump took jobs and savings, I had a lot of time [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSo I learned the old mouth organ, \"Buddy, can you spare a dime[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNow the century's near over, I've watched it wax and wane [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                                             [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd as I recall it all in all, it's a life I'd live again [/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n---------------------------\r\nVERSE 3\r\n[tab]                                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTwo sons fast a-growing, Nineteen-twenty-five[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                                              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMary wanted so a daughter, but her health it didn't thrive [/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShe died that distant summer, but our daughter made it through [/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]D[/ch]                                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nUntil the influenza took her at the age of two [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn the Thirties I was busy, like all other folk deprived [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nPicking coal from off the slagheaps, my two sons and me survived [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNow the century's near over, I've watched it wax and wane [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                                             [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd as I recall it all in all, it's a life I'd live again [/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n---------------------------\r\nVERSE 4\r\n[tab]                                                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThirty-six and I met Lucy, we were married in the spring [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                                              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe boys were new apprenticed and we didn't fear a thing[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt was hard but it was happy, it was roses around the door [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\n'Til we both saluted my sons as they went off to the war[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I lost one in the navy, a convoy in the Med [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOnce again for king and country, our name numbered with the dead [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNow the century's near over, I've watched it wax and wane [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                                             [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd as I recall it all in all, it's a life I'd live again [/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n---------------------------\r\nVERSE 5\r\n[tab]                                               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe other lad was lucky, and in Nineteen-forty-five[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMe and Lucy lit a candle, giving thanks he was alive [/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI turned Fifty then and wondered what the future held in store [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI'd work on to the pension if we all avoided war [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSoon my son walked down the aisle with a sweet girl as his bride [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd she made me think of Mary as she stood there by his side [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNow the century's near over, I've watched it wax and wane [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                                             [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd as I recall it all in all, it's a life I'd live again [/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n---------------------------\r\nVERSE 6\r\n[tab]                                        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI retired in the 60's, the bungalow downtown [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                                                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDid the gardening with Lucy 'til the years just wore her down [/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI lost her then with sorrow, but remember her with joy[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                                                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I'll take her flowers tomorrow when I go there with the boy [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor he is a fine great-grandson, wears his cap the wrong way round [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd what I bought with a farthing, seems to cost this kid a pound [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd he asks me have I really, really lived the century [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                                                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I wink and whisper ‘nearly’, and that's good enough for me [/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]                                                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe first of seven children, only three made sweet sixteen[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n---------------------------\r\nOUTRO\r\n[ch]G[/ch]    \r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]    \r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]    \r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r","plain_text":"--------------------------------------------------------------------------\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------\nTuning = Standard\n\n\n---------------\nCAPO 2nd FRET\n---------------\n\n\nVERSE 1 - No Chord\nI was born in Nineteen-hundred, Victoria was queen \nThe first of seven children, only three made sweet sixteen \nIt was hard but it was happy, it was roses around the door \n'Till we all saluted father, as he went of to the war \nI was tea boy in the factory the day the news arrived \nMaking mother one more widow, but together we survived \nNow the century's near over, I've watched it wax and wane\nAnd as I recall it all in all, it's a life I'd live again \n\n\n---------------------------\nVERSE 2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n---------------------------\nVERSE 3\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n---------------------------\nVERSE 4\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n---------------------------\nVERSE 5\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n---------------------------\nVERSE 6\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n---------------------------\nOUTRO\nG    \nC  D    G    \nC  D    G    \nC  D    G","chords":["C","D","G","F"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}