Last Lonely Eagle - New Riders of the Purple Sage
from the LP NRPS
Intro (Bass Walk up E F# G) G ///
then (Bass Walk up G G A Bb B ) to Bm (start singing)
Verse 1:
BmCG
If you go down round the bend in the river,
BmCG
you're gonna find a few changes been going down there.
BmCG
Cause the people who live round the bend in the river,
BmCG
have forgotten their dreams and they've cut off their hair.
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Chorus:
DCG
And take a last flyin' look at the last lonely eagle,
DCG
he's soaring the length of the land.
DCG
Shed a tear for the fate of the last lonely eagle,
D C G Bass run A (G A Bb B)
for you know that he never will land.
Verse 2:
If you go down where the lights push the night time,
back far enough so you can't feel the fear,
remember the boy who ya left on the mountain,
Who's sitting alone with the stars in his tears.
Chorus: Bass run A - Bm C G >
Instrumental Verse
Verse 3:
If you go down to the gas powered flatland,
where most of the people ust think that their free,
remember the peace that you had on the mountain,
come back to the love that you had here with me.
Chorus:
DCDG
Coda: repeat for you know-ow that he ne-eh-ev-ver will land
(Bass run A) Bm /// C // G /