| User: | tommiesalvador |
| Duration: | 130 seconds |
| Delay: | 12 seconds |
| Chord names: | Not defined |
| Abusive: | |
| Comment: | - |
Leader Of The Band
prep: Tommie Salvador
Intro
2/4
| G/B | G/B | C | C | Am | Em | D |
| G - (C/G) | G - (C/G) | G - (C/G) | G |
Verse:
| G - C/G | G | G |
An only child alone and wild,
| B | C |
a cabinet maker's son
| Am | Em |
His hands were meant for different work and his
| Am | C - D |
heart was known to none.
| G - (C/G) | G |
He left his home and went his lone
| B | C |
and solitary way
| Am | Em |
And he gave to me a gift I know
| Am - D |
I never can repay
| G - (C/G) | G - (C/G) | G - (C/G) | G |
| G - (C/G) | G | B | C |
A quiet man of music, denied a simpler fate
| Am | Em |
He tried to be a soldier once
| Am | C - D |
but his music wouldn't wait
| G _ (C/G) | G |
He earned his love through discipline,
| B | C |
a thund'ring velvet hand
| Am | Em |
His gentle means of sculpting souls
| Am - D7 | G - Am Bm |
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 | F - 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 |
I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band
| G - (C/G) | G - (C/G) | G - (C/G) | G |
| G - (C/G) | G |
My brothers' lives were different
| B | C |
for they heard another call
| Am | Em | Am | C - D |
One went to Chicago, the other to St. Paul
| G - (C/G) | B | C |
And I'm in Colorado, when I'm not in some hotel
| Am | Em | Am - D | G - (C/G) | G |
Living out this life I chose, and come to know so well
solo
| G/B | G/B | C | C | Am | Em | D |
| G - (C/G) | G - (C/G) | G - (C/G) | G |
| G - (C/G) | G | B | C |
I thank you for 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 | B | C |
I thank you for the kindness, and the times when you got tough
| Am | Em | Am - D | G - Am Bm |
And papa I don't think I said, "I love you" near enough.
Chorus:
| C | Bm | C | G |
The leader of the band is tired and his eyes are growing old
| Am | Em | Am | F - 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 |
I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band
| Am | Em | Am | C |
I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band
| G - (C/G) | G - (C/G) | G - (C/G) | G |
| solo / extro |