E|E|E|E|---------------||E|E|---------------||E|E|---------------||E|E|---------------||------ E|--------||Artist - Harvey Andrews ************************* Song - The Centurion ********************** Album - The Journey (1997) **************************** Tabbed By - Ayreon77 **********************E|E|E|E|---------------||E|E|---------------||E|E|---------------||E|E|---------------||------ E|--------||Tuning = StandardE|E|---------------|| CAPO 2nd FD T E|E|---------------||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 againE|E|---------------||------------VERSE 2 ********C At 18 I was courting, Mary filled my heart with prideD G Twenty saw us married, stepping out there side by sideC The work was never easy, but we did it day by dayD G Saving ha'pennies and farthings 'til we'd ten pounds put awayC G C G Then the slump took jobs and savings, I had a lot of timeC G F D So I learned the old mouth organ, "Buddy, can you spare a dimeG C Now the century's near over, I've watched it wax and waneD G D G And as I recall it all in all, it's a life I'd live againE|E|---------------||------------VERSE 3 ********C Two sons fast a-growing, Nineteen-twenty-fiveD G Mary wanted so a daughter, but her health it didn't thriveC She died that distant summer, but our daughter made it throughD G Until the influenza took her at the age of twoC G C G In the Thirties I was busy, like all other folk deprivedC G F D Picking coal from off the slagheaps, my two sons and me survivedG C Now the century's near over, I've watched it wax and waneD G D G And as I recall it all in all, it's a life I'd live againE|E|---------------||------------VERSE 4 ********C Thirty-six and I met Lucy, we were married in the springD G The boys were new apprenticed and we didn't fear a thingC It was hard but it was happy, it was roses around the doorD G 'Til we both saluted my sons as they went off to the warC G C G And I lost one in the navy, a convoy in the MedC G F D Once again for king and country, our name numbered with the deadG C Now the century's near over, I've watched it wax and waneD G D G And as I recall it all in all, it's a life I'd live againE|E|---------------||------------VERSE 5 ********C The other lad was lucky, and in Nineteen-forty-fiveD G Me and Lucy lit a candle, giving thanks he was aliveC I turned Fifty then and wondered what the future held in storeD G I'd work on to the pension if we all avoided warC G C G Soon my son walked down the aisle with a sweet girl as his brideC G F D And she made me think of Mary as she stood there by his sideG C Now the century's near over, I've watched it wax and waneD G D G And as I recall it all in all, it's a life I'd live againE|E|---------------||------------VERSE 6 ********C I retired in the 60's, the bungalow downtownD G Did the gardening with Lucy 'til the years just wore her downC I lost her then with sorrow, but remember her with joyD G And I'll take her flowers tomorrow when I go there with the boyC G C G For he is a fine great-grandson, wears his cap the wrong way roundC G F D And what I bought with a farthing, seems to cost this kid a poundG C And he asks me have I really, really lived the centuryD G And I wink and whisper ‘nearly’, and that's good enough for me NC ** I was born in Nineteen-hundred, Victoria was queenG The first of seven children, only three made sweet sixteenE|E|---------------||------------OUTRO ******GC D GC D GC D G
The Centurion
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