Leader Of The Band - Dan Fogelberg

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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 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 thund'ring 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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. 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 lea--der of-- the band

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My brothers' lives were different for they heard another call

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One went to Chicago, 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 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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. I am the living legacy to the leader of the band

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