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by Carly Simon


Legend In Your Own Time from Anticipation - 1971

Intro:  E7#5 

                  
Well I have known you
                        
Since you were a small boy
                        
And your mama used to say
    
My boy is gonna grow up and be
                         
Some kind of leader some day


Then you'd turn on the radio
     
And sing with the singer in the band

And your mama would say to you
                       
This isn't exactly what she had planned
                
                               
But you're a legend in your own time
                
A hero in the footlights
               
Playin' tunes to fit your rhyme
                        
But a legends only a lonely boy
                           
When he goes home alone.

            

                 
And although 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 tell if she's been really touched


Then you turn on the radio
     
And sing with the singer in the band
 
And think kind of sadly to yourself
                             
This isn't exactly what you had planned

                               
But you're a legend in your own time
                
A hero in the footlights
               
Playin' tunes to fit your rhyme
                        
But a legends only a lonely boy
                                  
When he goes home alone....   (Ab lib)