Golden Age Of Leather - Blue Öyster Cult Chords
Chords: A, G, F, Dm, Am/E, Eb, C, Bb, Golden
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Genre: hard rock, heavy metal, prog rock
NC
Raise your can of beer on high, and seal your fate forever
( A G ) x4
Our best years have past us by, the golden age of leather
A G A G
This was the night not long to come in the year of our Lord A.D.
A G A G
Where in a desert, way-house poised on the brink of eternity
F Dm Am/E Dm F Dm Am/E Dm
Four and ninety studded horsemen closed the knot of honor
F Dm Am/E F A G
As only drunken soldiers can
A G A G
And passed from man to man, a wanton child to dead to care
A G A G
That each would find his pleasure as he might
A G A G
For this fantastic night was billed, as nothing less than the end of an age
A G A G
A last crusade, a final outrage, in this day of flacid plumage
F Dm Am/E Dm F Dm Am/E Dm
And there was worn no cloth but leather
F Dm Am/E F A G
Made supple by years of stinging cinders
A G A
And here were seen, the scars of age
G A G F
for age had been the common call for one last night together
Solo: Eb Dm
Dm C Bb Dm
Down colored the sky (the ritual feast)
Dm C Bb Dm
Some had died (they were buried with their bikes)
Dm C Bb Dm
Each grabbed a rag (from a man with a sack)
Dm C Bb Dm
Torn strips of color (the red and the black)
Bridge: Dm C Dm NC
Dm C Dm C G C Dm C Dm C G C
I, came here willingly, and I, will go down valiantly
Bb A
We made a vow to give it all we had to give
Bb A C Dm
We made a vow to die as we had lived
Solo: Dm
Dm
They flew the colors, they began to fight
Dm
They flailed at each other like bugs at a light
Dm Dm Dm
Bodies and bikes beyond repair, smell of oil and gas in the air
Dm
Then the wind whipped the desert with a giant hand
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