{"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":1802855,"song":"Song For Duke","artist":"Judy Collins","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1802855-song-for-duke-chords-by-judy-collins/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1802855?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"[tab]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI didn’t even know the man[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nI didn’t know the man himself[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nEven though his music filled my life[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAs it has so many others[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI knew that he had died that week[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAfter fighting death a year or more[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut I had had a rule before[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat funerals were a waste of flowers[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut something said I had to go[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nTo be a witness to his gift of love[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nA man who never once gave up on life[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]Dm[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nUntil death took him in its tracks[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe people stood around the church[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nTen thousand people there they say or more[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBlack and white and rich and poor[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTogether they were there to say farewell[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIn New York City it had rained that day[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThe streets were silver and the sky was gray[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn the church the music sailed and sang[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd seemed to fill the air with shining sun[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe man was a hero[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHe played the music of our souls[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nHe knew that we all have in us[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Dm[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA place where beauty always grows[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOutside in the streets again[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThe people wandered through the falling rain[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThey waved their hands and dried their tears[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd turned to go about their lives again[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut none of us will be the same[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nIf we hear the things his music says[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat loving is the gift of life[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd making music was his way of love[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe man was a hero[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHe sang the music of our souls[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nHe knew that we all have in us[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Dm[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA place where beauty always grows[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAlways grows[/tab]","plain_text":"","chords":["C","Dm","G","Am","Em","F","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"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]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"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]}}}