Fred Smith - Century Girl

      Century Girl by Fred Smith
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[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.
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Fought on the beaches of the Second War I landed with MacArthur at Corregidor.
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My arse got burnt when Saigon fell, reeducation was another kind of hell.

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[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.