I Remember Tilly chords by Paddy Roberts

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Verse 1
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I  went back last month to Durban
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in South Africa where I was born
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and  where I was drug up.
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And in fact I left it,
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I left Durban when I was 24  years old
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and I hadn't been back for 27 years.
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Don't bother to work it out, it's 51.
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And you know when you're away
from a place as long as that,
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you carry a picture of it in your mind,
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you don't realize that it, like you,
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has grown up.
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You expect  to find it very much as you left it, and you get a terrible disappointment sometimes,
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as I did, when you go back and find the large changes that have taken place,
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not only in the surroundings,
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but also in the people.
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For instance, I remember Tilly,
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lovely Tilly.
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She was soft and she was supple,
and we made a handsome couple.
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But the passing years have been
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a little harsh,
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and it pained me to discover
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that my first exciting lover
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has grown a rather large moustache.
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I  remember Peggy, pretty Peggy.
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She was tall and she was slender
and her smile was warm and tender.
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Yes, her smile I can remember most of all.
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For her teeth were straight
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and pearly.
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Now I'm sad to say, my girlie,
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just hasn't any teeth at all.
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I al ways had in mind
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the elegance of Carol,
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sleek as any Persian cat.
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Reluctantly I find that carols
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like a bar      rel
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wallowing in rolls of fat.
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I remember Sheila, gorgeous Sheila,
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with her peach and cream complexion
that I held in such affection.
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But it's plain to
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see she'll never be the same
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For her face is puce an d mottled
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And from dawn to dusk she's bottled
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And didn't even know my name
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Clarissa couldn't curb her pas
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sions when they'd risen
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Her husband's numbered seventeen
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And though she's still superb,
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she spends her life in prison
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She      should have been divorced
between
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When again I faced them,
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I  em braced them,
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but I stood there in confusion,
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disappointed, disillusioned,
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by the ravages of time that I could see.
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How could beauty be so altered?
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But then suddenly I  falter
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I wonder what they thought
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of me
Thank you very much.