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Song title:      Stranger In A Strange Land
Original Album:	 Leon Russell and the Shelter People

Words and Music by Leon Russell
Copyright © 1971 Shelter Records
Published by ???

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Capo on 1 if you want to play along with the studio album version.
Chords and tab are relative to capo. Timing is 4/4.


INTRO:
Chords:
F#m x9 11 11 10 9    D   x57775
E   x79997           C#m x46654
B   799877


[play: 4/4| F#m | E | B | D | C#m | B |]

[then play: Guitar Figure 1]

single note run  F# G G#   E F# A F# A


Guitar Figure 1
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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|



VERSE1:
Chords:
A  x02220    F#m 244222
E  022100    Bm  x24432
G  320033    C#m x46654
D  xx0232

A        E           G                D
How many days has it been since I was born?
A        E            D
How many days until I die? Why?
     A        E        G              D
Do I know any way that I can make you laugh?
     A         E               F#m
Do I only know how to make you cry?

         Bm                E
When the baby looks around him,
Bm              E
Such a sight to see,
   C#m             F#m           D
He shares a simple secret with a wild man -


CHORUS:
Chords:
G  320033
D  xx0232
A  x02220

       G             D       A
He's a stranger in a strange land.
         G             D       A
(Just a) stranger in a strange land
                G             D       A
(Tell me why a) stranger in a strange land
            G             D       A                
(Whoah) - a stranger in a strange land


[play: Fill1]  [x4]

Fill1
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| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


A        E             G               D
How many miles will it take to see the sun?
A        E                D
How many years until it's done?


VERSE2:
Chords:
A  x02220    F#m 244222
E  022100    Bm  x24432
G  320033    C#m x46654
D  xx0232

A          E       G          D
Kiss my confusion away in the night
    A         E                     F#m
And lay by my side when the morning comes.
        Bm                E
And the baby looks around him,

Bm                E
Shares his bit of pain,
         C#m           F#m           D
With the begger in the palace of the king -


[repeat CHORUS]

[repeat Fill1]  [x4]


OUTRO:
Notes:
Sung/spoken over 4/4| G | D | A |

G                                   D               A
  Well, I don't exactly know what's going on in the world today
Don't know what there is to say about the way

    G          D                    A
The people are treatin' each other, not like brothers
                G              D             A
Leaders take us far away from Ecology with Mythology and Astrology

             G                      D                 A
I've got the world to say about the way we love today
Why can't we learn to love each other.

And try to learn a new faith to the whole world wide human race
Stop the mud and chase the rain back, relax and get back on the human track.

Stop racing into oblivion, oh such a sad sad state we're in
It's not the same - do you recognize and tell the truth when you hear it reign

Won't you stop and listen to the children sing? Won't you sing it, children?


[CHORUS starts and vocal continues with:]

Won't you come on and sing it, children?
(Sing it one more time, I didn't hear ya)