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Leadbelly
Written by Genauer
Lyrics
In the echo hall
Stood the prisoner of a cold cell
A man of any age filled the sunlit cage
Dead or living you could hardly tell
{Chorus}
He spent 30 years swingin' his arms on the old chain gang
Where the sound of the steel guitars and the pickaxe rang
He was hard as the cold iron bars as in the place he slept
But when he played his song men laughed and children wept
Leadbelly you had better find a song to say you're true
Because the wardens come and you won't see the sun tomorrow, unless you do
{Chorus}
In the echo hall
Stood the prisoner of a cold cell
He had killed a man - son of the bottom land
Dead or living you could hardly tell
{Chorus}
Leadbelly you had better find a song to say you're true
Leadbelly live forever in these tortured jailhouse blues
Chords
[Verse]
|| D | % | F# | % | G | % | D | Bm A |
|| D | % | F# | % | G | D | A | % :||
[Pre-Chorus] ×3
||: C | G | D | % :|| G | A ||
[Chorus]
||: D | A/C# | C | B7 | Em | D | A | % :||
Arrangement
[Pre-Chorus]
[Verse]
[Pre-Chorus]
[Chorus] ×2
End on [Pre-Chorus]
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