Chords for Richard Leigh (3) Live from the Bluebird Cafe
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Jam Along & Learn...
Well, I'd like to do a song now that I didn't write it with you, Mark.
I wrote it, I [D] guess, [F#] by divine intervention.
out of desperation.
it's a good example that songwriters do [Em] intentionally,
absolutely no way of ever making a dime.
They're absolutely guaranteed and they try as hard as they can to write this song.
no rewards in this world.
But it has to do with [A] [F#m] a [G] dare that I was given, in a sense.
I wrote it, I [D] guess, [F#] by divine intervention.
out of desperation.
it's a good example that songwriters do [Em] intentionally,
absolutely no way of ever making a dime.
They're absolutely guaranteed and they try as hard as they can to write this song.
no rewards in this world.
But it has to do with [A] [F#m] a [G] dare that I was given, in a sense.
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_ _ _ Well, I'd like to _ do a song now that _ _ _ I didn't write it with you, Mark.
I didn't write it with you, Gretchen.
I wrote it, _ I _ [D] guess, [F#] _ by divine intervention.
I don't know.
But it was out of desperation.
_ But I'd really want to sing this song for you because it's a good example that _ _ songwriters do _ [Em] intentionally,
sometimes, write songs that have absolutely no way of ever making a dime. _
They're absolutely guaranteed and they try as hard as they can to write this song.
Knowing full well they will reap no rewards in this world. _
But it has to do with [A] _ [F#m] a [G] dare that I was given, in a sense.
I was _ a den leader for several years [B] for my _ sons, well, my number two and three sons, _
_ and helped out on my number one son, his den, for a little bit.
We carved a few things.
But the other guys, I actually was the head honcho.
I was the big guy, the big blue and gold guy that _ _ they all looked up to _ _
because they didn't know any better.
Because I told them to. _ _ _ _
Just because.
Yeah, just because.
But it was _ a funny thing to _ me that I would ever do that.
And my sons flattered me thinking that they would _ follow me around in that uniform
and do all the things I _ tried to help them with and teach.
But one year, if all of you are familiar, _ I'm sure all of you are familiar with the Cub Scouts of America.
They were formed in 1930, you know, following the Boy Scouts. _
[E] And at these PAC meetings, which are the monthly meetings, not the weekly meetings, that I was the boss, there's a bigger boss. _ _
And that guy or gal [A] brings all the little dens together into what they call the big PAC.
And I, being kind of a musical guy, was always requested to lead the song.
There was always a big song.
_ And every year at the Blue and Gold Banquet, my guys and I, we would _ sing,
The Bear Came Over the Mountain. _
[G#] _ And it had been written, it had a new lyric, you know, that some housewife, or [E] _ I don't know, she might have been an attorney.
[D] _ _ [E] But it was _ about the lamest lyric I'd ever heard, and really the PAC turned on me.
_ _ _ _ And they said, we don't ever want to hear that song again, and I'll never forget the day _ at the _ last _ PAC meeting,
prior to the Blue and Gold Banquet, Judy Beetle from Den One walked right up to me.
_ _ _ All five foot two of her, and she said, Richard, you're a professional songwriter, aren't you?
And I said, yes, why, yes, why do you ask?
And she said, well, we've all gotten together, and _ _ they've sent me over as a representative to tell you they're sick of The Bear Came Over the Mountain.
_ _ And they said, we want you to write a song for that, for next month.
And I said, oh my lord, to myself, [N] how do you write a song about the Cub Scouts?
I mean, that is not exactly the hookiest thing I've ever heard.
_ _ _ _ But all the little blue and gold guys that were about that big were crowding in on me really closely,
because they knew Judy Beetle was big, Den One, I mean, it was big. _ _
_ _ And they all crowded around, and she said, will you do this?
And they all looked up their little shining faces up at me, and I looked back at them, and I knew what they were thinking, the motto.
The motto.
I said, I'll do my best.
_ _ _ So I [E] went home, _ _ _ and I _ [B] thought, I'm really in trouble now.
And I went into the bathroom, the only place [Em] that I could find any peace, and [A] I _ [Em] took a beer in there with me, and I started to kind of _ relax.
This is getting thick, man.
And I thought, I'm in trouble, I'm in trouble big time, [A] but I am going to give this everything _ I've got.
And I'm going to show them that Den Three can really knock this out.
We did have this song at our next PAC meeting, and it's a blue and gold banquet I'll never forget.
And I like to sing it now for my sons, and all the sons that I had the privilege to work with, friends of mine, they all were great kids.
And this is a little mythological treatment of the birth of Cub Scouting. _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [A] Many years ago, [D] on this very night, [A] some people gathered round [E] a campfire [B] light.
[A] Everyone was saying [D] the world was in a mess, not enough people [E] trying to do [A] their best.
So [D] they took a little blue, and they took a little gold, [Bm] and they took a little boy [A] about nine years old, and turned him around, and [C#] lo and [F#m] behold, _ _ [B] that's how it [Bm] came about. _ _
The night they made the first [A] Cub Scout. _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ Now [A] they come in every size, they [D] come in every shape, and [A] everywhere they are, [B] the world's a better place.
[A] Every bobcat and bear, [D] wolf and weebelo, remembers that night [B] many years ago.
[D] When they took a little blue, [A] and they took a little gold, [Bm] and they took a little boy about [A] nine years [D] old, and turned him around, and lo and [F#m] behold, _ _ _ [B] that's [Bm] how it came about. _ _
The night they made the first Cub [A] Scout.
Oh, they [D] took a little blue, and [A] they took a little gold, and [Bm] they took a little boy about [A] nine years old, and [D] turned him around, and [C#] lo and [F#m] behold, _ _ _ [B] that's how it came [Bm] about. _
_ _ The night they [E] made the first _ Cub _ _ [A] Scout. _ _
I didn't write it with you, Gretchen.
I wrote it, _ I _ [D] guess, [F#] _ by divine intervention.
I don't know.
But it was out of desperation.
_ But I'd really want to sing this song for you because it's a good example that _ _ songwriters do _ [Em] intentionally,
sometimes, write songs that have absolutely no way of ever making a dime. _
They're absolutely guaranteed and they try as hard as they can to write this song.
Knowing full well they will reap no rewards in this world. _
But it has to do with [A] _ [F#m] a [G] dare that I was given, in a sense.
I was _ a den leader for several years [B] for my _ sons, well, my number two and three sons, _
_ and helped out on my number one son, his den, for a little bit.
We carved a few things.
But the other guys, I actually was the head honcho.
I was the big guy, the big blue and gold guy that _ _ they all looked up to _ _
because they didn't know any better.
Because I told them to. _ _ _ _
Just because.
Yeah, just because.
But it was _ a funny thing to _ me that I would ever do that.
And my sons flattered me thinking that they would _ follow me around in that uniform
and do all the things I _ tried to help them with and teach.
But one year, if all of you are familiar, _ I'm sure all of you are familiar with the Cub Scouts of America.
They were formed in 1930, you know, following the Boy Scouts. _
[E] And at these PAC meetings, which are the monthly meetings, not the weekly meetings, that I was the boss, there's a bigger boss. _ _
And that guy or gal [A] brings all the little dens together into what they call the big PAC.
And I, being kind of a musical guy, was always requested to lead the song.
There was always a big song.
_ And every year at the Blue and Gold Banquet, my guys and I, we would _ sing,
The Bear Came Over the Mountain. _
[G#] _ And it had been written, it had a new lyric, you know, that some housewife, or [E] _ I don't know, she might have been an attorney.
[D] _ _ [E] But it was _ about the lamest lyric I'd ever heard, and really the PAC turned on me.
_ _ _ _ And they said, we don't ever want to hear that song again, and I'll never forget the day _ at the _ last _ PAC meeting,
prior to the Blue and Gold Banquet, Judy Beetle from Den One walked right up to me.
_ _ _ All five foot two of her, and she said, Richard, you're a professional songwriter, aren't you?
And I said, yes, why, yes, why do you ask?
And she said, well, we've all gotten together, and _ _ they've sent me over as a representative to tell you they're sick of The Bear Came Over the Mountain.
_ _ And they said, we want you to write a song for that, for next month.
And I said, oh my lord, to myself, [N] how do you write a song about the Cub Scouts?
I mean, that is not exactly the hookiest thing I've ever heard.
_ _ _ _ But all the little blue and gold guys that were about that big were crowding in on me really closely,
because they knew Judy Beetle was big, Den One, I mean, it was big. _ _
_ _ And they all crowded around, and she said, will you do this?
And they all looked up their little shining faces up at me, and I looked back at them, and I knew what they were thinking, the motto.
The motto.
I said, I'll do my best.
_ _ _ So I [E] went home, _ _ _ and I _ [B] thought, I'm really in trouble now.
And I went into the bathroom, the only place [Em] that I could find any peace, and [A] I _ [Em] took a beer in there with me, and I started to kind of _ relax.
This is getting thick, man.
And I thought, I'm in trouble, I'm in trouble big time, [A] but I am going to give this everything _ I've got.
And I'm going to show them that Den Three can really knock this out.
We did have this song at our next PAC meeting, and it's a blue and gold banquet I'll never forget.
And I like to sing it now for my sons, and all the sons that I had the privilege to work with, friends of mine, they all were great kids.
And this is a little mythological treatment of the birth of Cub Scouting. _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [A] Many years ago, [D] on this very night, [A] some people gathered round [E] a campfire [B] light.
[A] Everyone was saying [D] the world was in a mess, not enough people [E] trying to do [A] their best.
So [D] they took a little blue, and they took a little gold, [Bm] and they took a little boy [A] about nine years old, and turned him around, and [C#] lo and [F#m] behold, _ _ [B] that's how it [Bm] came about. _ _
The night they made the first [A] Cub Scout. _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ Now [A] they come in every size, they [D] come in every shape, and [A] everywhere they are, [B] the world's a better place.
[A] Every bobcat and bear, [D] wolf and weebelo, remembers that night [B] many years ago.
[D] When they took a little blue, [A] and they took a little gold, [Bm] and they took a little boy about [A] nine years [D] old, and turned him around, and lo and [F#m] behold, _ _ _ [B] that's [Bm] how it came about. _ _
The night they made the first Cub [A] Scout.
Oh, they [D] took a little blue, and [A] they took a little gold, and [Bm] they took a little boy about [A] nine years old, and [D] turned him around, and [C#] lo and [F#m] behold, _ _ _ [B] that's how it came [Bm] about. _
_ _ The night they [E] made the first _ Cub _ _ [A] Scout. _ _