Fred Smith – Century Girl chords

[Intro]
Gm					      F				       CI'm going to have to introduce myself, I got no record company produce myself.
Gm							    FI've been the drummer and I've played the bass now I'm up the front with my
	            Cpretty little face.
Gm					      FKept it together through the leaner years, I sang "Stormy Weather" through the
		Cmeaner years.

[Chorus]
Gm				      F	        	                   CI've been the sucker of the Century, now I'm the sucker I was meant to be.
Gm                               F                                     CBorn at the turn of the Century, fought in the trenches of Gallipoli.
Gm                               F                                            CI stood tall while Wall Street crashed though I never ever had a lot of cash.
Gm                            F                                                CFought on the beaches of the Second War I landed with MacArthur at Corregidor.
Gm                            F                                           CMy arse got burnt when Saigon fell, reeducation was another kind of hell.

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[Chorus]
Bb            Eb                 Gm                            FCentury Girl, I'm checking out, is there much left for us to talk about?
Bb            Fb               Gm                  F                  CI'll call back in from planet Earth, the self-same child I was upon my birth.

[Verse 3]
Gm				      F					CI've been a sailor of the Seven Seas, I was a hippie in the Seventies.
Gm					       F         			CI shot the sheriff and I fought the law, I've been the hooker to the whore.
Gm					  FI've been Catholic and I've been Zen, I've been the Buddha since Christ knows
	Cwhen.

[Chorus]
Gm					  F					     CI've been to Babylon, I've been to Rome, I've been travelling but now I'm home.
Bb            Eb                 Gm                            FCentury Girl, I'm checking out, is there much left for us to talk about?
Bb            Fb               Gm                   F               CI'll call back in from planet Earth, the self-same child I was upon my birth.
Gm						FI've seen a bucketload of shit go down, I've been the President I've been the
	Cclown.

[Bridge]
Gm			        F			            CI"ve seen a bucket of futility, don't need to demonstrate virility.
Gm					F						CStill I ain't bitter, and I ain't green, and I'm feeling fitter than I've ever been.
Gm			              F				          CI've been the sucker of the century, now I'm the sucker I was meant to be.

[Outro]
Bb        Eb               Gm                   FCentury Girl, I'm checking out, is there much left for us to talk about?
Bb            Fb                Gm                    F             CI'll call back in from planet Earth, the self-same child I was upon my birth.

Bb            Eb         Gm                     FCentury Girl, I'm checking out, is there much left for us to talk about?
Bb            Fb               Gm                  F                CI'll call back in from planet Earth, the self-same child I was upon my birth.