What A Time It Was Chords by Clem Tholet

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What a time it [F] was, with so [G] few friends to turn to.
What a time it was, [F] when all we did [G] seemed wrong.
[F] We'd broken all [G] our bonds, and the battle plan was drawn.
[F] What a time, what a [C] time it was. _
_ _ 1965, the year of UDI.
Who'd have thought the country [G] would survive or stay alive?
The UN made us outcasts, and the British said we couldn't last.
That we would fall when the oil did not arrive.
[C] _ Now I don't say we were right, and I don't say we were wrong.
I'm just trying to tell it like it was in simple song.
You see, when people love their homeland, they regard it as their own land.
And they fight whether they're right or they [C] are wrong.
_ _ What a time it was, [F] with all the [G] world against us.
What a [E] time it was, [F] not all we did [G] was wrong.
[F] We'd broken [G] all our bonds, [C] but life kept [E] going on.
[C] What a [G] time, what a [C] time it was.
_ _ _ 1966, saw some ocean politics.
When two men climbed a tiger [G] to have talks about the tolls.
They talked and talked and talked and talked and talked some more.
The negotiations ended [C] in deadlock.
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_ And in 1968, there was another great debate.
This time aboard the [G] fillers, but the end was much the same.
November saw a new flag raised while the people prayed for better days.
And hope was still the surname [C] of the game.
And in 1970, our republic came to be.
Solutions seemed to fly [G] a little further out of reach.
But the next year through the gloom came Sir Alec Douglas Hume.
And it seemed they'd found a way [C] across the breach.
_ So in early 72, Lord Pearson, his retinue,
arrived to put the nation [G] to a test that they had planned.
But still it seemed the plan was bad, no better than the last they'd had.
And knows the word we heard [C] across the land.
_ _ What a time it was, with all the [G] world against [C] us.
What a [E] time it was, [C] when all we did seemed wrong.
We'd broken [G] all our bonds and the battle plan was drawn.
[F] What [G] a time, what [C] a time it was.
_ _ 1975, the Forster had arrived with President Cowander [G] for
some talks across the falls.
But nothing there could be resolved.
The problem still was too involved and the impetus slowed down [C] till it stalled.
_ _ _ _ 1976 was when _ Cosmopolitix finally put
pressure [G] on the players in the game.
_ Kissinger's proposals were broadcast to the nation,
with one man and one boat, the [C] final aim.
_ Well, Geneva should have sealed it.
But instead it just revealed that all the players in the game were [G] pulled apart.
_ Well, they had to find a way to start again another day with all prepared
to take a [C] peaceful part.
_ _ What a time it was, [F] with all the [G] world against us.
What a time it was, [C] when all we [G] did seemed wrong.
[F] We'd broken all [G] our bonds and the battle carried on.
[F] What a [G] time, what a [C] time it was.
_ Now in 1978, while the rest still vacillate,
we found a way to work it out [G] within the land.
_ Never mind the rest, what we're doing's for the best.
And all we want is a peace we [C] understand. _
_ There'll be boats for all the folks, and with sanctions gone,
we hope to rebuild this little country [G] to a proud and single nation.
We've got to end this dreadful war.
We found what we've been fighting for.
Will the world wake up and stop this [C] conflagration? _
_ What a time it's been, [F] with so few [G] friends to turn to.
What a time [E] it's been, [F] when all we did [G] seemed wrong.
[F] We're trying [G] to put things right, but the battle still [Am] goes on.
[F] What a time, [G] what a time [C] it's been. _ _
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