Dan Fogelberg - Leader of the Band

      
 
 
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 #From uunet!stanford.edu!agate!sennet Fri Aug 21 10:33:28 PDT 1992 
 #Article: 1695 of alt.guitar.tab 
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 #From: sennet@ocf.berkeley.edu (Sennet Williams) 
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 #Subject: Leader of the Band SIMP 
 #Date: 19 Aug 1992 09:45:10 GMT 
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 #Keywords: SIMP, Fogelberg, Cat Stevens 
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 #This song was recently posted, but it was in a format not easy for me to 
 #play. If the previous post worked for you, you should stop reading this 
 #post now. 
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 #Basically, I wanted to be able to play this song without memorizing it, 
 #and my ear is real bad, and my girlfriend wants it and is just starting 
 #to play, so it had to be real easy. Chords are printed with every line, 
 # You can skip the chords in ( ), and I moved the chords to where they 
 # sound right, not where the music says. (this is SIMP format) 
 # 
 Intro: 
 G7 C Am Em D G C/G G C/G G C/G G 
            
 Verse: 
 G        C/G      G              Bm             C   
 An only child alone and wild, a cabinet maker's son 
 Am                       Em                     Am                 C     D 
 His hands were meant for different work and his heart was known to  none. 
 G           C/G       G                Bm       C   
 He left his home and went his lone and solitary way 
       Am              Em     Am    D7            G C/G G C/G 
 And he gave to me a gift I know I never can repay  
 G      C/G     G         Bm             C   
 A quiet man of music, denied a simpler fate 
 Am                  Em                Am              C  D 
 He tried to be a soldier once but his music wouldn't wait 
 G      C/G      G                          Bm               C   
 He earned his love through discipline, a thund'ring velvet hand 
      AM           Em                  Am  D7  G                 
 His gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand 
 Chorus: 
   C                   Bm                 C                  G  
 . The leader of the band is tired and his eyes are growing old 
            Am                    Em                  Am          C    D 
 . But his blood runs through my instrument and his song is in my soul  
   C                   Bm             C            G  
 . My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man 
       Am              Em          Am       C        G    
 . I'm just a living legacy to the lea--der of-- the band 
 
 C/G G C/G G C/G G 
       
 G            C/G         G                 Bm             C   
 My brothers' lives were different for they heard another call 
 Am              Em        Am          C   D 
 One went to Chicago, the other to St. Paul 
 G          C/G    G           Bm            C  
 And I'm in Colorado when I'm not in some hotel 
 Am              Em               Am       D7      G  C/G G 
 Living out this life I chose and come to know so well 
 
 G7 C Am Em D7 G C/G G C/G G C/G G 
             
 (no lyrics) 
 G           C/G     G              Bm             C   
 I thank youfor the music and your stories of the road 
 Am                    Em             Am             C D 
 I thank you for the freedom when it came my time to go 
 G           C/G      G                Bm                 C    
 I thank you for the kindness and the times when you got tough 
 Am               Em               Am       D7      G    
 And papa I don't think I said "I love you" near enough. 
 
 (Chorus followed by ending: ) 
   Am             Em           Am     C  D     G   
 I am the living legacy to the leader of  the band 
 C/G G C/G G C/G G G7 C Am Em D7 G 
             
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