Leader Of The Band chords

_ _ I think I could only have written one song in my life.
_ It would have been Leader of the Band.
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Because what that meant to my father and to me, _ _ .
there's no way I could quantify that or even explain it.
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My father passed away over ten years ago now,.
and _ _ _ he got to hear that song.
He got to see this, enjoy the success of that song.
_ People were calling him on the phone and interviewing him in his last days.
_ Who is this man, the leader of the band.
_ _ And he loved that, and I loved that, because I respected him so much.
He gave me everything I am, really.
My mother and he were both musicians.
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_ G The idea of being a living legacy is really the truth.
_ I don't think I'll ever be as accomplished a musician as he was, _ _ _ _ .
but _ _ I've had a different gift.
It came to me in a different way.
I've been able to C reach and touch people with these songs that I write.
_ And that one has probably touched more people more E deeply than anything Am I've ever done.
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_ C _ _ _ And Am he gave to Em me a gift I know Am I _ D.
never can G _ _ C repay.
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quiet man of G _ music, _ Bm denied a simple C _ fate.
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tried to Em be a soldier once, Am but his _ music couldn't C _ D wait.
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He C earned his love through G _ .
discipline, Bm a _ thundering C velvet hand _ .
Am His gentle, Em meant-to _ -sculpting souls Am took me D years to _ G _ understand.
_ C The _ leader of Bm the band is dying, C and his eyes are G growing old.
_ Am But his blood runs through Em my instrument, _ Am and his soul is in my _ D soul.
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My life has been G _ Bm an attempt C to imitate the G band.
_ Oh, Am I'm just a Em living _ legacy Am to C the leader G of the C band _ .
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brother's lines were G different, for Bm they _ heard another C _ come.
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One went Em to Chicago, _ Am and the other to C St.
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G Paul.
And C I'm in _ G.
Colorado, _ Bm when I'm not in some _ C _ hotel _ .
_ A Living out Em this life I have chose, Am I've come D to know G so C _ .
well.
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_ _ C thank you for the G music, _ and Bm your _ stories of C the road.
_ I Am _ thank you for Em the freedom, _ Am when it came my time C to go.
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C thank you for G your kindness, Bm and the times when you C got tough _ .
Am And Papa, I Em don't think I said Am I love D you G near enough _ _ .
_ C The leader Bm of the _ band is dying, C and his eyes are _ G growing old _ .
But Am his blood runs through Em my instrument, and Am his soul is in G my _ .
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My life has Bm been _ _ _ _ .
C _ an attempt to imitate the G band.
Oh, Am I'm just a living Em _ legacy _ Am to the _ C leader G of the band _ .
Am I am a living Em _ .
_ legacy to Am the _ _ C _ leader _ .
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_ _ _ _ song, Leader of the Band, G cemented our Am relationship.
There was nothing left unsaid Em when he passed away.
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