Leading Me Back To You

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From e_goosen@oberon.rm.fccc.edu Sun Apr 27 11:22:02 1997
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 16:32:45 -0400
From: Eric Goosenberg 

 
Reply-To: E_Goosenberg@fccc.edu
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: Leading_Me_Back_To_You by Joe Sample

This song is on jazz pianist Joe Sample's album Spellbound, and is co-written
and sung by Michael Franks on that recording.


	LEADING ME BACK TO YOU
	by: Joe Sample & Michael Franks (1988)
	from the Joe Sample album "Spellbound"

Fm7 / Fm/Bb / | Ebma7(?) / Cm7 (?) / | (2X)


 Fm9           
 Fm9/
 Bb  Ebma7
    I guess I flew too high

 Fm9         
 Fm9/
 Bb           
 Cm7 
 Bbm7 
 A7 (or 
 Eb7)
      Icarus falling from the sky
Abma7           
 Abm-ma7 (
 G7+5)    
 Cm7
     But in the dense rain forest heat
                   
 F7                
 Fm7
Somehow I landed on my feet
               
 Fm7/Bb      
 Cm7 / / 
 Gm7 | 
 Cm7 / 
 Cm7 
 Bm7
With the will to sur - vive.


 Bbm7                      Bbm7b5 (
 Eb7-9)
     And in the heart of darkness
Abm7                      Abm9 (Db7-9 or Db9)
Without a chance of rescue
(G7sus)
I never quit, I just refused
              Cma7 / / / | / / Dm7 Em7
I thought of you


 Fm7                
 Fm7/Bb
Somehow I know I'd find you
(Abma7/Bb)(Bb13-9)  Ebma7         G7+5
Following my        heart's com - pass
         Abma7
And your love
              
 Am7-5      
 D7(?-9)
 Gmaj7
Your love was leading me back to you.


 Fm7                    
 Fm7/Bb
Now the ordeal is over
                  ?              Ebma7  ?
Now I can feel your heartbeat
               Abma7
And your love
                                    
 D7         
 Gmaj7
Your love is leading me back to you.



 Fm7 / 
 Fm/
 Bb / | Ebma7(?) / 
 Cm7(?) / | (2X)


 Fm9               
 Fm9/
 Bb Ebma7
Daylight be - gan to show

 Fm9            
 Fm9/
 Bb              
 Cm7 / / / | 
 Bbm7 / / 
 A7
      A jungle painted by Rou - sseau
Abma7                  
 Abm-ma7        
 Cm7
          I walked a - round in circles lost
                
 F7                    
 Fm7
Above the spider-monkeys laughed
           
 Fm7/Bb   
 Cm7 / / 
 Gm7 | 
 Cm7 / 
 Cm7 
 Bm7|
At my failure be - low.


 Bbm7                                       Bbm7b5
     And in the heart of darkness

 Abm7                      
 Abm9
Without a chance of rescue
?
I never quit, I just refused
              Cma7 / / / | / / Dm7 Em7
I thought of you


 Fm7                           
 Fm7/Bb
Somehow I know I'd find you
                     Ebma7
Following my heart's compass
               Abma7
And your love
                                        
 D7        
 Gmaj7
Your love was leading me back to you.


 Fm7                      
 Fm7/Bb
Now the ordeal is over
                                Ebma7
Now I can feel your heartbeat
               Abma7
And your love
                                    
 D7         
 Gmaj7
Your love is leading me back to you.

Fm7 / Fm/Bb / | Ebma7 / Cm7 / | (repeat and fade)

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