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A Hundred With The Rest

from One More Highway by Bob Menzies

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A mournful song based on an old Irish Folk song about going into battle

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A Hundred with the Rest

… created October 2, 2011 last revised March 31 2012
BPM 113
Capo on 2nd Fret (sounds in D)
Intro C Em Am F C G C
Lively intro with a cymbal crash, moderate tempo
-goes right into Verse 1 after the drum fill
Verse 1

C Em Am
Come to me my lover, tell me why you hurry so
F C G7 C
Come closer and listen, you don’t need to go
C Em Am
There’s a message I come to give you, get you ready for the coast
F C G7 C
If you look to the horizon, you will see a Pale Horse
F C G7 C

Verse 2

I do not know my beauty, why you came into my life
I still find it a privilege to see the scars from your knife
There were things within your life I could not begin to guess
One day with you was better than a hundred with the rest

(goes right into chorus)

Chorus

C G F C
A hundred with the rest, a hundred with the rest
F C G7 C
One day with you was better than, a hundred with the rest

C Em Am

F C G7 C



Verse 3

(Quietly)

C Em Am
And all the crazy wanderers who are laughing at the rain
F C G7 C
The dispossessed, the repossessed, they’re all coming back again
C Em Am
I have a message for them come and see me when you can
F C G7 C
I want to be in your fair camp, when the stranger comes again

F C G7 C


Verse 4

C Em Am
I tried my best to help you but I was only helping myself
You deserved much better than me but I was the only one left
I signed the papers for you, it was worth it I must confess
One day with you was better than a hundred with the rest

Chorus

C G F C
A hundred with the rest, a hundred with the rest
F C G7 C
One day with you was better than, a hundred with the rest


Outro
C G F C
F C G C 

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from One More Highway, released January 1, 2014

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Bob Menzies Sooke, British Columbia

Bob Menzies is a Canadian folk-rock, alt-country singer-songwriter originally from Montreal and now living in Sooke, a small oceanside town on Vancouver Island’s south coast. He has recorded 5 albums of original music previously and his newest recording is the 2018 EP IN THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS. ... more

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