Composer: Carly Simon Live band performance video at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4fTT6voask In this QM2 video version Carly performs it in Abm a semi-tone lower then the original key. She has all the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7EgTU4g7kE NOTE: Below are the actual chord shapes Carly Simon uses so please IGNORE ANY POP-UP CHORD BOXES the website might automatically suggest... #5 = 076708 = 076700 * = 076707 = x05500 = x02120 = 022100 Em7 = 055400 Please select a star rating for this tab many thanks ========================================================== [Verse 1] Well I have known you... ...since you were a small boy And your mama used to say "Well my boy is gonna grow up And be some kind of leader some day" [Verse 2] Then you’d turn on the radio And sing with the singer in the band Your mama would say to you "This isn’t exactly what we had planned" | / / / / | [Chorus] But you’re a legend in your own time (You are...) A hero in the footlights (Legend-------!) Playing tunes to fit your rhyme But a legend’s only a lonely boy When he goes home alone [Bridge] | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | [Verse 3] And though I ...know you... ...still have the heart of that small boy Well you lend it out far too much And no one woman loving you... ...can ever feel that she’s been really touched [Verse 4] Then you’d turn on the radio And sing with the singer in the band Think kinda sadly to yourself This isn’t exactly what you had planned [Chorus] But you’re a legend in your own time (You are...) A hero in the footlights (Legend--------!) Playing tunes to fit your rhyme But a legend’s only a lonely boy When he goes home alone [Coda] Well a legend’s only a lonely boy------... ...When he goes home alone--------------! | / / / / | / / / / | ||: Humm--- mm-mm mm -mmmm! :|| [Repeat and fade] [Ending Carly used on the QM2 video] | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / ||