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[ti:Leader of the Band/Washington Post March] |
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[ar:Dan Fogelberg] |
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[al:The Music of Dan Fogelberg] |
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[re:Simple Lyrics Editor for UWP] |
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[ve:3.11.13] |
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An only child alone and wild, a cabinet maker's son. |
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His hands were meant for different work |
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And his heart was known to none |
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He left his home and went his lone and solitary way |
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And he gave to me a gift I know I never can repay |
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A quiet man of music denied a simpler fate |
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He tried to be a soldier once, but his music wouldn't wait |
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He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand |
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His gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand |
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The leader of the band is tired and his eyes are growing old |
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My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man |
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I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band |
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I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band |
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My brother's lives were different for they heard another call |
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One went to Chicago and the other to St Paul |
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And I'm in Colorado when I'm not in some hotel |
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Living out this life I've chose and come to know so well |
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I thank you for the music and your stories of the road |
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I thank you for the freedom when it came my time to go |
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I thank you for the kindness and the times when you got tough |
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And papa, I don't think I said I love you near enough |
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The leader of the band is tired and his eyes are growing old |
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But his blood runs through my instrument and his song is in my soul |
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My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man |
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I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band |
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I am a living legacy to the leader of the band |
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(The End) |