Fred Small — Leslie Is Different

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Music and Lyrics by Fred Small

[Intro]
D                                     A
The neighbor up the road brought the message
E                       A
Joe and May never had a phone
D                               F#m
Five children grown and gone to college
     D                               E
Now they lived out on Pewaukee Lake alone

        D                          A
And the nurse at the big Milwaukee hospital
E                                   A
Said "We've got a baby here with no eyes
      D                 F#m
It's retarded, it's got cerebral palsy
           D                  E
Six months old living only to die

       D                          A
And we remembered the tiny Englishwoman
         C#m                     D E
Used to hire out as a nurse-governess
A           C#m                       D              E
May Lemke, will you take this broken child off our hands?"
D              E                     A
And God loves a fool 'cause she said yes, she said


[Chorus]
D         A
Leslie is different
      B7             E
Like everyone in the world
             D                     A
He's kind of awkward, he's kind of fragile
         F#m              E
Kind of graceful, kind of tough
              D                 A
He's kind of slow, he's kind of clever
           E                 A
He's just Leslie and that's enough


[Verse 1]
D                              A
He just lay there helpless and silent
      E                         A
Not a tear, not a smile, not a word
         D                           F#m
But they held him and rocked him and sang him to sleep
     D                               E
And talked to him as if he really heard
       D                     A
And he grew with the sun and affection
           E                    A
Though his body was spindly and small
      D                                     F#m
And a hundred times they stood him with his hands upon the fence
      D                         E
And a hundred times watched him fall
          D                        A
And their daughters warned it was useless
            C#m                            D  E
They said, "Mama, that boy will break your heart"
           A    C#m         D  E
She said, "Love never comes easy
    D        E           A
And miracles mostly come hard," she said


[Chorus]
D         A
Leslie is different
      B7             E
Like everyone in the world
             D                     A
He's kind of awkward, he's kind of fragile
         F#m              E
Kind of graceful, kind of tough
              D                 A
He's kind of slow, he's kind of clever
           E                 A
He's just Leslie and that's enough


[Verse 2]
D                    A
May used to play the piano
    E                           A
And sing the old songs from the war
          D                   F#m
There was always music on the radio
        D                         E
And the records she bought at the store
       D                         A
And sometimes they swore he was listening
          E                          A
Though of course there was no way to know
      D                    F#m
Maybe he was flying in his own blue sky
      D                      E
Where no one else would ever go
D                      A
Maybe he was lost in a forest
      C#m                     D  E
Where demons and wood spirits dwell
        A       C#m          D            E
But for sixteen years he had never spoke a word
       D        E           A
Never taken one step for himself, but they said


[Chorus]
D         A
Leslie is different
      B7             E
Like everyone in the world
             D                     A
He's kind of awkward, he's kind of fragile
         F#m              E
Kind of graceful, kind of tough
              D                 A
He's kind of slow, he's kind of clever
           E                 A
He's just Leslie and that's enough


[Verse 3]
D                        A
Along about three in the morning
   E                        A
A ripple of music broke the night
      D                    F#m
Joe's fallen asleep at the TV again
    D                           E
May reached over to turn on the light
        D                  A
But the music kept getting louder
        E                A
And the TV was quiet and cold
       D               F#m
Leslie was playing the piano
        D                      E
And his fingers were agile and bold
       D               A
A Tchaikovsky piano concerto
      C#m                  D E
Like water breaking over a dam
  A        C#m     D                  E
A river of ecstasy flowed through his hands
         D          E       A
And each note cried out, "I am!" because


[Chorus]
D         A
Leslie is different
      B7             E
Like everyone in the world
             D                     A
He's kind of awkward, he's kind of fragile
         F#m              E
Kind of graceful, kind of tough
              D                 A
He's kind of slow, he's kind of clever
           E                 A
He's just Leslie and that's enough		
    

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