Chords for Leo Kottke Amsterdam 2012 In the Bleak Mid winter

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_ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ This [G] year I visited my band leader when I was in the seventh grade
[G#] And the eighth grade in Muskogee man named [F#] Lowell
He [B] lives [C#] now at Tulsa _
[D#] He became a
jazz professor in
[E] Tahlequah
_ [D#] University _ [C#m] [B] I _
[F] Knocked on his door said hello.
[D] _ _ [G]
I
Walked in he sat down
[F#] put
It [F] turned out to be four hours of Mahler on his boombox
It [E] told me why every note that was happening was [C] happening while we listened and I went right back to my
_ [F] trombone
My wool uniform was a funny hat as if I [D#m] was gonna be
[G] killed at Wellington
[F] _ [B] After _ _
[Gm] _ [C] _ _ [B] that [F#] _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G#] we listened to Ricard [G] Strauss's last [C#] song
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_ [C#m] _ _ a [F] long afternoon
[B] wonderful
_ The [F] end of it [Cm] for some reason he [D#] pulled a large Luger out of [G] his barkel
_ Big [G#] reclining [E] chair that was a Spanish [B] copy of a [A#m] Luger _
[G] not sure what that was [F#] about
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_ [C#] _ _ [B] _ _ [B] And he [F] reminded me of the day that I walked into the band room
He said that I had found a guitar [D#] and that I was in I don't know why I [Cm] said
I know [F] what it was like and I was I've been overwhelmed by it and I knew this was what I
Didn't care anymore what my job might be or what I might do
But all I wanted was a guitar and I told him this much and you [Gm] know, it's great and
He said he reminded me of this he said [A] good [D#] I'm glad you found the instrument [F#] you want to be playing but remember
[B] [F] Your future is [N] in the trombone
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[F] Sometimes you can't get started [B] _ you _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ squirm [F#] around a lot and [B] fidget you can get started _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ In [F#] the [G#m] bleak middle winter
_ [F#] _ Frosty wind _ _
_ _ _ [B] The earth has hard [D#] and sad
_ Water turns [A#] to [E] snow
_ [B] _ _ _ [C#m] Snow is fall
snow on snow
[A] [C#] snow on snow on [D#m] snow
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In the [G#m] deep middle winter _ [F#]
long long _ [E] ago
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[G#] You
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_ _ _ [B] In the bleak [G#m] middle winter
_ [C#m] _ [F#] Frosty wind [D#] may
_ [F#] _ The _ [B] [C#] earth has [D#] hard
_ [G#m] _ [C#m] Water _ [F#]
turn [G#m] to [B] snow
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Snow is fall [C#] snow on snow
[A] _ [B] snow on snow on
[D#m] snow _
[B] _ In the deep middle [D#m] winter _
[E] [F#] Long
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