Judy Collins – Song For Duke (Guitar)

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                       C
I didn’t even know the man

                  Dm
I didn’t know the man himself

                      G
Even though his music filled my life

                   C
As it has so many others

                             C
I knew that he had died that week

                       Dm
After fighting death a year or more

                G
But I had had a rule before

                                 C
That funerals were a waste of flowers

                     Am
But something said I had to go

                       Em
To be a witness to his gift of love

                          F
A man who never once gave up on life

            Dm              G
Until death took him in its tracks

                            C
The people stood around the church

                               Dm
Ten thousand people there they say or more

                    G
Black and white and rich and poor

                                    C
Together they were there to say farewell

                                    C
In New York City it had rained that day

                                Dm
The streets were silver and the sky was gray

                        G
In the church the music sailed and sang

                                        C
And seemed to fill the air with shining sun

              Am
The man was a hero

                    Em
He played the music of our souls

                    F
He knew that we all have in us

              Dm            G
A place where beauty always grows

                       C
Outside in the streets again

                                Dm
The people wandered through the falling rain

                           G
They waved their hands and dried their tears

                                    C
And turned to go about their lives again

                           C
But none of us will be the same

                          Dm
If we hear the things his music says

                   G
That loving is the gift of life

                                C
And making music was his way of love

              Am
The man was a hero

                  Em
He sang the music of our souls

                    F
He knew that we all have in us

              Dm            G
A place where beauty always grows

        C
Always grows