מילים לשיר Century Plant – Victoria Williams

Century Plant by Victoria Williams
Written by Victoria Williams From the Atlantic Mammoth Records album "Loose" Transcribed by David and Art Turco, email "aturco@netcom.com"
Outside my house is a cactus plant, they call the Century Tree.
And you never know when it will bloom.
Only once in a hundred years, it flowers gracefully. Hey, do you want to come out and play the game,
it's never too late.
it's never too late.
Hey, do you want to come out and play the game, Clementine, honey, was fiftyOld uncle Taylor was eighty'fore she picked up her paint. when he rode his bike across the plains of China, u
just like today.
And the sun was shining on their day,
Do you want to come out and play the game,
Do you want to come out and play the game,
it's never too late.
it's never too late. Didn't know how to tell her, for over thirty years.
Then she went away, and he woke up that day.
He kept locked up inside himself, and no one saw the tears.
So he, went back to college, at the age of sixty
Graduated with honors, with an agricultural degree.
And he rode the grand rapids, at the age of eighty
And he joined up the peace core, at the age of sixtyNow he brings roses to his sweet heart, she lives most anywhere.
He sees someone suffering, he knows that despair.
about dancing in a shimmering ballroom.
'cause you never know when, they will bloom.
He offers them a rose, and some quiet prose, Hey (Hey), do you want to come out and play the game,
it's never too late.
Hey, I said hey (Hey), do you want to come out and play the game,
it's never too late, to play it, play it, yea.
(Do you want to come out) Wanta come out and play the game.
Ooh, (It's never too late, to play the game.)
Do you want to come out and play the game. (x5)
It's never too late, to play the game. (x5.