Chords for Richard Leigh (2) Live from the Bluebird Cafe
Tempo:
78 bpm
Chords used:
E
A
C#m
B
G#m
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Just yesterday my wife and I returned from Washington DC where we were visiting some
my relatives my brother and my sister as I mentioned earlier and
I
Was I wanted to show her?
you know she had never seen where her husband lived or anything about him and
I
Was a
Male husband, I think whether I just knew nothing about me came to the mail no, but I
took her to Washington and we looked around at the Smithsonian thing and we
You know all that, but it put me in mind as we were passing by the
Arlington National Cemetery, and I thought gosh.
I wish I could take her up there because most of my family's up there now and
It put me in mind of
December day
When I was 21 a blustery wintery day, I climbed this hill
In those days you couldn't drive that close to it to your graves and everything it was I mean that where I was going
Yeah, they had a little booth where you would
Tell the people who you were looking for and they'd give you a pass and they give you a map and you'd go up and
Look for your graves, and it was cold as all get out and I'd
and I'd never
never gone there before I thought you know and so I
Walked this hill and I just thought I'd never been colder in my life
And I thought of turning back, and I thought well my car is a long way off, and I think by this map
I'm almost there, and I and I walked
And I walked and suddenly things started to look familiar to me
And I thought this is strange because my parents died when I was just a little boy.
I was about not even quite three and
And
And I had the collar pulled up tightly around my neck that wind was in my face
My nose was about to fall off and and I thought gosh
I got to make quick work of this because I'm gonna die out here
you know and I and
I I looked to my right and all I could see was the back of these backs of these headstones with numbers on them
For as far as I could see
And I thought oh, it's somewhere down there and
suddenly the wind
Broke a limb loose, and it just an old dead limb came tumbling down and hit one of those
Indistinct white stones and burst into
50 pieces tiny little pieces
And I thought I'll walk toward that stone see what happened
And as I walked between the stones, and I got closer and closer.
I had this real feeling of energy coming
inside of me, and I I walked around the one that had that the
That limb had struck and it said
Marcel wife of Randolph, and I looked next to that when it said
Randolph Lee, you know
I'll be darned I'd walked right to my parents grave
and I thought
All I could say was well.
Hi.
You know I did I was so nervous by then.
It was such a magical mystical
[E] moment for me
And I left that was when I was 21, and I walked down the hill quite a bit warmer than I had come up
Years later.
I was sitting by my piano
and I was waiting for my
the muse to strike me, and I was hoping something would and I
Looked at some of my father's books that I keep near me always
And he was a political scientist, and he wrote a lot of about the world
And I reached up and I grabbed one and I sort of a similar magical thing happened
his
Obituary fell out and I began to read it almost clinically I did
And I read it he was an adventurer
He was an author
He was a clergyman.
He'd been a priest.
He was a colonel in the army
He and it went on and on like this, and I he was an aide to a president.
I went good grief
Said what a great man
The greatest man I never knew
And so my friend [E] Lang Martine, and I wrote this song
[C#m] [A]
[E] [C#m] [A]
[E] The greatest [A] man I never [B] knew
[E] Live just down the hall
Every [C#m] day we [B] said hello
[E] But never [C#m] touched
[A] He [C#m]
was in his [G#m] paper [A] I was in my [G#] room
[A] How was I to know he thought I [B] hung
The [E] greatest man I never knew
[A]
came [E] home late [A] every night
[E] He never [C#m] had too much [C#] to say
[E] Too much was on his [A] mind
[C#m] I never really [G#m] knew him
[A] And now it seems [G#] so sad Everything
Everything he gave to us took all [B] he [E] had
[G#m] Then the days
[A]
Turned into years and [E] the memories do black
[E]
[G#m] He grew cold [A] like an old winter wind
[E] Blowing across my [B] life
The [C#m] greatest words [A] I never [B] heard [E] I guess [C#m] I'll never
[A] The man [E] I [C#m] thought could never die
[E]
Spend it [G#m] almost
[A] He [C#m] was good at [G#m] business
[A] There was business left to [G#] do
[A] He never said he loved me guess he thought
[B] [E] [N]
my relatives my brother and my sister as I mentioned earlier and
I
Was I wanted to show her?
you know she had never seen where her husband lived or anything about him and
I
Was a
Male husband, I think whether I just knew nothing about me came to the mail no, but I
took her to Washington and we looked around at the Smithsonian thing and we
You know all that, but it put me in mind as we were passing by the
Arlington National Cemetery, and I thought gosh.
I wish I could take her up there because most of my family's up there now and
It put me in mind of
December day
When I was 21 a blustery wintery day, I climbed this hill
In those days you couldn't drive that close to it to your graves and everything it was I mean that where I was going
Yeah, they had a little booth where you would
Tell the people who you were looking for and they'd give you a pass and they give you a map and you'd go up and
Look for your graves, and it was cold as all get out and I'd
and I'd never
never gone there before I thought you know and so I
Walked this hill and I just thought I'd never been colder in my life
And I thought of turning back, and I thought well my car is a long way off, and I think by this map
I'm almost there, and I and I walked
And I walked and suddenly things started to look familiar to me
And I thought this is strange because my parents died when I was just a little boy.
I was about not even quite three and
And
And I had the collar pulled up tightly around my neck that wind was in my face
My nose was about to fall off and and I thought gosh
I got to make quick work of this because I'm gonna die out here
you know and I and
I I looked to my right and all I could see was the back of these backs of these headstones with numbers on them
For as far as I could see
And I thought oh, it's somewhere down there and
suddenly the wind
Broke a limb loose, and it just an old dead limb came tumbling down and hit one of those
Indistinct white stones and burst into
50 pieces tiny little pieces
And I thought I'll walk toward that stone see what happened
And as I walked between the stones, and I got closer and closer.
I had this real feeling of energy coming
inside of me, and I I walked around the one that had that the
That limb had struck and it said
Marcel wife of Randolph, and I looked next to that when it said
Randolph Lee, you know
I'll be darned I'd walked right to my parents grave
and I thought
All I could say was well.
Hi.
You know I did I was so nervous by then.
It was such a magical mystical
[E] moment for me
And I left that was when I was 21, and I walked down the hill quite a bit warmer than I had come up
Years later.
I was sitting by my piano
and I was waiting for my
the muse to strike me, and I was hoping something would and I
Looked at some of my father's books that I keep near me always
And he was a political scientist, and he wrote a lot of about the world
And I reached up and I grabbed one and I sort of a similar magical thing happened
his
Obituary fell out and I began to read it almost clinically I did
And I read it he was an adventurer
He was an author
He was a clergyman.
He'd been a priest.
He was a colonel in the army
He and it went on and on like this, and I he was an aide to a president.
I went good grief
Said what a great man
The greatest man I never knew
And so my friend [E] Lang Martine, and I wrote this song
[C#m] [A]
[E] [C#m] [A]
[E] The greatest [A] man I never [B] knew
[E] Live just down the hall
Every [C#m] day we [B] said hello
[E] But never [C#m] touched
[A] He [C#m]
was in his [G#m] paper [A] I was in my [G#] room
[A] How was I to know he thought I [B] hung
The [E] greatest man I never knew
[A]
came [E] home late [A] every night
[E] He never [C#m] had too much [C#] to say
[E] Too much was on his [A] mind
[C#m] I never really [G#m] knew him
[A] And now it seems [G#] so sad Everything
Everything he gave to us took all [B] he [E] had
[G#m] Then the days
[A]
Turned into years and [E] the memories do black
[E]
[G#m] He grew cold [A] like an old winter wind
[E] Blowing across my [B] life
The [C#m] greatest words [A] I never [B] heard [E] I guess [C#m] I'll never
[A] The man [E] I [C#m] thought could never die
[E]
Spend it [G#m] almost
[A] He [C#m] was good at [G#m] business
[A] There was business left to [G#] do
[A] He never said he loved me guess he thought
[B] [E] [N]
Key:
E
A
C#m
B
G#m
E
A
C#m
_ _ _ Just yesterday my wife and I returned from Washington DC where we were visiting some
my relatives my brother and my sister as I mentioned earlier and
_ I
Was I wanted to show her?
you know she had never seen where her husband lived or anything about him and _
I
Was a
Male husband, I think whether I just knew nothing about me came to the mail no, but I
took her to Washington and we looked around at the Smithsonian thing and we
_ You know all that, but it put me in mind as we were passing by the
Arlington National Cemetery, and I thought gosh.
I wish I could take her up there because most of my family's up there now and
_ It put me in mind of
December day
When I was 21 a blustery wintery day, I climbed this hill
In those days you couldn't drive that close to it to your graves and everything it was I mean that where I was going
Yeah, they had a little booth where you would
Tell the people who you were looking for and they'd give you a pass and they give you a map and you'd go up and
Look for your graves, and it was cold as all get out and I'd
and I'd never
never gone there before I thought you know and so I
Walked this hill and I just thought I'd never been colder in my life
And I thought of turning back, and I thought well my car is a long way off, and I think by this map
I'm almost there, and I and I walked
And I walked and suddenly things started to look familiar to me
And I thought this is strange because my parents died when I was just a little boy.
I was about not even quite three and
And
And I had the collar pulled up tightly around my neck that wind was in my face
My nose was about to fall off and and I thought gosh
I got to make quick work of this because I'm gonna die out here
you know and I and
I I looked to my right and all I could see was the back of these backs of these headstones with numbers on them
For as far as I could see
And I thought oh, it's somewhere down there and
suddenly the wind
Broke a limb loose, and it just an old dead limb came tumbling down and hit one of those
_ Indistinct white stones and burst into
50 pieces tiny little pieces
And I thought I'll walk toward that stone see what happened
And as I walked between the stones, and I got closer and closer.
I had this real feeling of energy coming
inside of me, and I I walked around the one that had that the
That limb had struck and it said
_ Marcel wife of Randolph, and I looked next to that when it said
Randolph Lee, you know
I'll be darned I'd walked right to my parents grave
and I thought
All I could say was well.
Hi.
You know I did I was so nervous by then.
It was such a magical mystical
[E] moment for me
_ And I left that was when I was 21, and I walked down the hill quite a bit warmer than I had come up
Years later.
I was sitting by my piano
and I was waiting for my
the muse to strike me, and I was hoping something would and I
Looked at some of my father's books that I keep near me always
And he was a political scientist, and he wrote a lot of about the world
And I reached up and I grabbed one and I sort of a similar magical thing happened
his
Obituary fell out and I began to read it almost clinically I did
And I read it he was an adventurer
He was an author
He was a clergyman.
He'd been a priest.
He was a colonel in the army
He and it went on and on like this, and I he was an aide to a president.
I went good grief
Said what a great man
The greatest man I never knew
_ _ And so my friend [E] Lang Martine, and I wrote this song
_ _ [C#m] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[E] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] The greatest [A] man I never [B] knew
_ [E] Live just down the hall _ _
_ Every [C#m] day we [B] said hello _
[E] But never [C#m] touched
_ [A] He [C#m] _ _
was in his [G#m] paper [A] I _ was in my [G#] room
_ [A] How was I to know he thought I [B] hung
The [E] _ _ greatest man I never knew
[A] _
came _ [E] home late [A] every night _
[E] He never [C#m] had too much [C#] to say
[E] Too much was on his [A] mind
_ [C#m] I never really [G#m] knew him
[A] And now it seems [G#] so sad Everything
_ Everything he gave to us took all [B] he [E] had
_ _ [G#m] Then the days
[A]
Turned into years and [E] the memories do black
[E] _ _
_ _ [G#m] He grew cold [A] like an old winter wind
[E] Blowing across my [B] life _ _
_ The [C#m] greatest words [A] I never [B] heard [E] I guess [C#m] I'll never
[A] The man [E] I [C#m] thought could never die
_ [E]
Spend it [G#m] almost
_ [A] He _ [C#m] was good at [G#m] business
_ [A] There was business left to [G#] do
_ _ [A] He never said he loved me guess he thought
[B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
my relatives my brother and my sister as I mentioned earlier and
_ I
Was I wanted to show her?
you know she had never seen where her husband lived or anything about him and _
I
Was a
Male husband, I think whether I just knew nothing about me came to the mail no, but I
took her to Washington and we looked around at the Smithsonian thing and we
_ You know all that, but it put me in mind as we were passing by the
Arlington National Cemetery, and I thought gosh.
I wish I could take her up there because most of my family's up there now and
_ It put me in mind of
December day
When I was 21 a blustery wintery day, I climbed this hill
In those days you couldn't drive that close to it to your graves and everything it was I mean that where I was going
Yeah, they had a little booth where you would
Tell the people who you were looking for and they'd give you a pass and they give you a map and you'd go up and
Look for your graves, and it was cold as all get out and I'd
and I'd never
never gone there before I thought you know and so I
Walked this hill and I just thought I'd never been colder in my life
And I thought of turning back, and I thought well my car is a long way off, and I think by this map
I'm almost there, and I and I walked
And I walked and suddenly things started to look familiar to me
And I thought this is strange because my parents died when I was just a little boy.
I was about not even quite three and
And
And I had the collar pulled up tightly around my neck that wind was in my face
My nose was about to fall off and and I thought gosh
I got to make quick work of this because I'm gonna die out here
you know and I and
I I looked to my right and all I could see was the back of these backs of these headstones with numbers on them
For as far as I could see
And I thought oh, it's somewhere down there and
suddenly the wind
Broke a limb loose, and it just an old dead limb came tumbling down and hit one of those
_ Indistinct white stones and burst into
50 pieces tiny little pieces
And I thought I'll walk toward that stone see what happened
And as I walked between the stones, and I got closer and closer.
I had this real feeling of energy coming
inside of me, and I I walked around the one that had that the
That limb had struck and it said
_ Marcel wife of Randolph, and I looked next to that when it said
Randolph Lee, you know
I'll be darned I'd walked right to my parents grave
and I thought
All I could say was well.
Hi.
You know I did I was so nervous by then.
It was such a magical mystical
[E] moment for me
_ And I left that was when I was 21, and I walked down the hill quite a bit warmer than I had come up
Years later.
I was sitting by my piano
and I was waiting for my
the muse to strike me, and I was hoping something would and I
Looked at some of my father's books that I keep near me always
And he was a political scientist, and he wrote a lot of about the world
And I reached up and I grabbed one and I sort of a similar magical thing happened
his
Obituary fell out and I began to read it almost clinically I did
And I read it he was an adventurer
He was an author
He was a clergyman.
He'd been a priest.
He was a colonel in the army
He and it went on and on like this, and I he was an aide to a president.
I went good grief
Said what a great man
The greatest man I never knew
_ _ And so my friend [E] Lang Martine, and I wrote this song
_ _ [C#m] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[E] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] The greatest [A] man I never [B] knew
_ [E] Live just down the hall _ _
_ Every [C#m] day we [B] said hello _
[E] But never [C#m] touched
_ [A] He [C#m] _ _
was in his [G#m] paper [A] I _ was in my [G#] room
_ [A] How was I to know he thought I [B] hung
The [E] _ _ greatest man I never knew
[A] _
came _ [E] home late [A] every night _
[E] He never [C#m] had too much [C#] to say
[E] Too much was on his [A] mind
_ [C#m] I never really [G#m] knew him
[A] And now it seems [G#] so sad Everything
_ Everything he gave to us took all [B] he [E] had
_ _ [G#m] Then the days
[A]
Turned into years and [E] the memories do black
[E] _ _
_ _ [G#m] He grew cold [A] like an old winter wind
[E] Blowing across my [B] life _ _
_ The [C#m] greatest words [A] I never [B] heard [E] I guess [C#m] I'll never
[A] The man [E] I [C#m] thought could never die
_ [E]
Spend it [G#m] almost
_ [A] He _ [C#m] was good at [G#m] business
_ [A] There was business left to [G#] do
_ _ [A] He never said he loved me guess he thought
[B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _