What A Time Cifras

[Intro]
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[Verse]
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In 1965, the year of the U.D.I.
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Now who'd have thought the country
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Would survive or stay alive
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The UN made us outcasts
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And the British said we couldn't last
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That we would fall when the oil did not arrive
 
[Verse]
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Now, I don't say we were right
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And I don't say we were wrong
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I'm just trying to tell it
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Like it was, in a simple song
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You see when people love their homeland
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They regard it as their own land
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And they fight whether they're right or they are wrong
 
[Chorus]
C               Am G
What a time it was
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With so few friends to turn to
C               Am G
What a time it was
F                     G
When all we did was wrong
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We'd broken all our bonds
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And the battle plan was drawn
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What a time
G               C
What a time it was
 
[Verse]
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In 1966 saw some ocean politics
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When two men climbed the Tiger
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To have talks about the talks
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They talked, and talked, and talked, and talked
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And talked, and talked some more
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The negotiations ended in deadlock
 
[Verse]
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And in 1970, our republic came to be
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Solution seemed to fly
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A little further out of reach
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But the next year through the gloom
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Came Sir Alec Douglas-Home
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And it seemed they found a way across the bridge
 
[Verse]
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So in early '72, Lord Pearce and his retinue
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Arrived to put the nation
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To a test that they had planned
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But still it seemed the plan was bad
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No better than the last they had
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And those words we heard across the land
 
[Chorus]
C               Am G
What a time it was
F                   G
With all the world against us
C               Am G
What a time it was
F                        G
When all we did seemed wrong
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We'd broken all our bonds
         C                Am  G
And the battle plan was drawn
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What a time
G               C
What a time it was
 
[Verse]
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1975, and Mr. Vorster had arrived
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With President Kaunda
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For some talks across the falls
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But nothing there could be resolved
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The problem still was too involved
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And the impetus slowed down until it stalled
 
[Verse]
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1976 was when cosmopolitics
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Finally put pressure
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On the players in the game
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Kissinger's proposal
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Was broadcast to the nation
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With one man and one vote the final aim
 
[Chorus]
C               Am G
What a time it was
F                    G
With so few friends to turn to
C               Am G
What a time it was
F                        G
When all we did seemed wrong
       F             G
We'd broken all our bonds
C                         Am G F
And the Battle plan was drawn
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What a time
G               C
What a time it was
 
[Verse]
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Now, in 1978, we're still waiting for a sign
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But we found a way to work it out
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Within the land
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We'll never mind the rest
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What we're doing's for the best
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And all we want is a peace we understand
 
[Verse]
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There'll be votes for all the folks
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And with sanctions gone, we hope
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To rebuild this little country
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To a proud and single nation
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We've got to end this dreadful war
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We found what we've been fight for
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Will the world  wake up and stop this conflagration
 
[Chorus]
C                 Am  G
What a time it's been
F                       G
With so few friends to turn to
C                 Am  G
What a time it's been
F                        G
When all we did seemed wrong
F                           G
We're trying to put things right
         C                Am G
But the battle still goes on
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What a time
G               C
What a time it was
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What a time
G               C
What a time it was
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