{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1901921,"song":"Golden Age Of Leather","artist":"Blue Öyster Cult","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11088005-golden-age-of-leather-chords-by-blue-oyster-cult/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1901921?type=chord","rating":4.50023,"votes":6,"content":"\r\nNC\r\nRaise your can of beer on high, and seal your fate forever\r\n[tab]                                                           ( [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] ) x4\r\nOur best years have past us by, the golden age of leather[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThis was the night not long to come in the year of our Lord A.D.[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhere in a desert, way-house poised on the brink of eternity[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]Dm[/ch]     [ch]Am/E[/ch]    [ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]Dm[/ch]     [ch]Am/E[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nFour and ninety studded horsemen closed the knot of honor[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]    [ch]Dm[/ch]     [ch]Am/E[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]   [ch]A[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAs only drunken soldiers can[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd passed from man to man, a wanton child to dead to care[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat each would find his pleasure as he might[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor this fantastic night was billed, as nothing less than the end of an age[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA last crusade, a final outrage, in this day of flacid plumage[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/ch]       [ch]Am/E[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]Dm[/ch]  [ch]Am/E[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\n And there was worn no cloth but leather[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]Am/E[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\n Made supple by years of stinging cinders[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd here were seen, the scars of age[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nfor age had been the common call for one last night together[/tab]\r\n\r\nSolo: [ch]Eb[/ch]  [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]Dm[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Bb[/ch]              [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nDown colored the sky (the ritual feast)[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Dm[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]Bb[/ch]                                [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nSome had died (they were buried with their bikes)[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Dm[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]Bb[/ch]                      [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nEach grabbed a rag (from a man with a sack)[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Dm[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]Bb[/ch]                      [ch]Dm[/ch] \r\nTorn strips of color (the red and the black)[/tab]\r\n\r\nBridge:  [ch]Dm[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch]  NC\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI,     came here willingly,   and I,     will go down valiantly[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Bb[/ch]                            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWe made a vow to give it all we had to give[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Bb[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nWe made a vow to die as we had lived[/tab]\r\n\r\nSolo:  Dm\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThey flew the colors, they began to fight[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThey flailed at each other like bugs at a light[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Dm[/ch]                               [ch]Dm[/ch]                            [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nBodies and bikes beyond repair, smell of oil and gas in the air[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]                                       \r\nThen the wind whipped the desert with a giant hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]                                              [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd the humans and the Harleys caught the shifting sand[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd the old ranger weathered the storm[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd he topped the rise by the middle of morn[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Dm[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch] NC\r\nHe saw rippled dunes, calm and surreal[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch] NC\r\nAnd a glint of a shaft of chromium steel[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Dm[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]Dm[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nGold...   Golden age... [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\ne---------3---3-------------------------------------\r\nB-2-2-2---3---3-------------------------------------\r\nG-2-2-2---0---0-------------------------------------\r\nD-2-2-2---0---0-------------------------------------\r\nA-0-0-0---------------------------------------------\r\nE---------3p2h3-------------------------------------[/tab]","plain_text":"NC\nRaise your can of beer on high, and seal your fate forever\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSolo: Eb  Dm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBridge:  Dm    C Dm  NC\n\n\n\n\n\nSolo:  Dm","chords":["A","G","D","F","Dm","Am/E","Eb","C","Bb","B","E"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}