Misc Soundtrack – Camp - Century Plant (Ukulele)

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[VERSE]
   C
Outside my house is a cactus plant

      G                 D
they call the century tree

C
Only once in a hundred years

    G            D
it flowers gracefully

          C                     D
and you never know when it will bloom
[CHORUS]
G           D           C
Hey, do you wanna come out

               G
and play the game?

        D         C
it's never too late (2x)
[VERSE]
G          Bb             F 
Clementine Hunter was fifty-four

                         G   D C  
before she packed up the pain

G          Bb              F
Old Uncle Taylor was eighty-one

F                 
when he rode his bike

 G                   D      C                    
across the plains of China (uh-huh)

        Em           A               C
And the sun was shining on that day

              D
just like today
[CHORUS]
G           D           C
Hey, do you wanna come out

               G
and play the game?

        D         C
it's never too late (2x)
[VERSE]
Em                 D
Didn't know how to tell her

Em                  D
for all the thirty years

G                     D
kept locked up inside himself

C                  D
and no one saw the tears

Em                   A
and then she went away

    G               D
and he woke up that day
[BRIDGE]
              Em            D
now he brings roses to his sweetheart

     C              D
she lives most anywhere

    Em          G
he sees someone suffering

    C            A
he knows that despair

    G            D
he offers them a rose

C                  D 
and some quiet prose

      C            G                A
'bout dancin' in a shimmering ballroom

            C            G
'cause you never know when 

        D
it will bloom
[CHORUS]
G           D           C
Hey, do you wanna come out

               G
and play the game?

        D         C
it's never too late (8x)