Misc Originals – Bill Richard - The Story Of Mr Lawrence (Guitar)

    Bm                                 Em
Mr. Lawrence bows his head in an empty room

   Bm                              F#m
He recounts the time he wrote that tune

        Em                              A
How the words flowed to form ideas more bold

         G                      Bm
But they escape him as he grows old

     Bm                               Em
Over time, those instruments began to break

    Bm
The papers withered to dust

    F#m
And he began to shake

       G                      Bm
Oh Mr. Lawrence, how you have lost

         D                                 G
Dear Mr. Lawrence, you taught the world to dance

             G                 A                  D
The way your notes filled that room put us all in trance

    G                      Em                     D
The lessons you taught the world were heard by us all

    F#m              Em                       D
And if this stage on which you played were to fall

    N.C.                      D
The world would grow a little darker

         G
A little colder

   N.C.              Bm
We need you to stand tall

   Em                                    A
So pick up that faded guitar that’s been locked away

    G                                A
And play to us the tune that made us want to stay

           F#m                        Em                G
If you can rise up Mr. Lawrence we’ll give you one more chance

   A               Em                D
To put us all back in our belladonic trance

    Bm                                Em
The room that he sat in grew a little quieter that day

        Bm                        F#m
And the paints on the walls, they faded to gray

            Em                           A
But in that room the music refused to be exiled

        G                Bm
And for one last time he recalls when he was a child

   Bm                               Em
He remembers getting that faded 6 - string

        Bm          F#m
Playing day by day, left hand

   Em                  A
By learning to play he learned to sing

     G                    Bm
They called him a one man band

         D                                 G
Dear Mr. Lawrence, you taught the world to dance

             G                 A                  D
The way your notes filled that room put us all in trance

    G                      Em                     D
The lessons you taught the world were heard by us all

    F#m              Em                       D
And if this stage on which you played were to fall

    N.C.                      D
The world would grow a little darker

         G
A little colder

   N.C.              Bm
We need you to stand tall

   Em                                    A
So pick up that faded guitar that’s been locked away

    G                                A
And play to us the tune that made us want to stay

           F#m                        Em                G
If you can rise up Mr. Lawrence we’ll give you one more chance

   A               Em                D
To put us all back in our belladonic trance

    Bm                     Em
And then one day the music left

    Bm     F#m
The people cried

    Em       A
The children wept

       G                  Bm
We all wish we could have seen

         G
One more song

            D
A starman’s dream

         Bm                       Em
But this world took your soul too soon

    Bm                     F#m
You never got to go to the moon

        Em             A
Then we sat around and daydreamed

         G                               Bm
Thinking about how pretty your songs had seemed

    Bm                         Em
But Lazarus had to collect his dues

    G                              D
You left this world one spaced-out dude