Leader Of The Band

Dan Fogelberg
seq by ChartChai MeeSangNin - kar by Mike M (August 2000)
Sequenced by ChartChai MeeSangNin (jeridu@yahoo.com).

Sequenced: October, 1999GM/GS file, Optimised for Roland SC-88 Pro.Sequenced by ChartChai MeeSangNin (jeridu@yahoo.com).

An only child alone and wild
A caḅnet makeṛs son
His hands were meant for diff̣rent work
And his heart was known to none
He left his home and went his lone and solitary way
And he gave to me a gift
I know I never can repay

A quiet man of music
Denied a simpler fate
He tried to be a soldier once
But his music wouldṇt wait
He earned his love thrụ discipline
A thunḍring velvet hand
His gentle means of sculpting souls
Took me years to understand

The leader of the band
Is tired and his eyes are growing old
But his blood runs thrụ my instrument
And his song is in my soul
My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man
Ịm just a living legacy
To the leader of the band

My brotheṛs lives were diff̣rent
For they heard another call
One went to Chicago and the other to St. Paul
And Ịm in Colorado
When Ịm not in some hotel
Living out this life Ịve chose
And come to know so well

I thank you for the music
And your stories of the road
I thank you for the freedom
When it came my time to go
I thank you for the kindness
And the times when you got tough
And papa I doṇt think I said
̣I love yoụ near enough

The leader of the band
Is tired and his eyes are growing old
But his blood runs thrụ my instrument
And his song is in my soul
My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man
Ịm just a living legacy
To the leader of the band
I am the living legacy
To the leader of the band

Dan Fogelberg-Leader of the Band
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Dan Fogelberg-Leader of the Band
Sequenced by ChartChai MeeSandNin
jeridu@yahoo.com
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