Biography:
A member of the popular group Bread, David Gates is also a songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist and producer. His first hit as a songwriter came with the popular Mermaids song Popsicles and Icicles.
David Gates was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to a band director and a piano teacher on December 11, 1940. Surrounded by music from birth, he was proficient in piano, bass and guitar by the time he was in high school. In 1957, he received a musical break when Chuck Berry came to Tulsa; Gates had his first hit, Jo-Baby, with Chuck Berry.
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Clouds
David Gates
1973 album First
Intro F C# Dm C# F
Verse 1
C# Dm C# F
See the clouds adrift so far below
C# Dm A F7
Ever changing as they come and go
Dm Gm
Makes me wonder why I'm up so high
Gm7 C Bb C Bb F
When really I am down so low
Verse 2
C# Dm C# F
Of all the wonders I was one allowed
C# Dm A F7
I think that I would always choose a cloud
Dm Gm
Always brings my feelings right out loud
Bb C Gm C Bb F
Whether I'm ashamed or proud
Bridge
Gm Am Bb F
On this airplane comin' home to you
Gm Am Bb
Sometimes I think I've flown my whole life through
D# D7 C
My whole life...through
Bb Am Gm Dm C Bb C Bb F
As I wing my way to you
Verse 3
C# Dm C# F
See the clouds they're giving life below
C# Dm A F7
In colors that the canvas cannot show
Dm Gm
Keeping secrets no one else could know
Bb C Gm C Bb F
For I'm the one who told them so
Verse 4
Gm Am Bb F
Now and then I get up close to you
Gm Am Bb
I'd like to stay but I'm just passing through
Gm Am Bb C
So I'll have to say goodbye
Gm Am Bb C F C# F C# F
Until next time I fly
flyinglibra51
God Bless Glen Travis Campbell
David Gates
1973 album First
Intro F C# Dm C# F
Verse 1
C# Dm C# F
See the clouds adrift so far below
C# Dm A F7
Ever changing as they come and go
Dm Gm
Makes me wonder why I'm up so high
Gm7 C Bb C Bb F
When really I am down so low
Verse 2
C# Dm C# F
Of all the wonders I was one allowed
C# Dm A F7
I think that I would always choose a cloud
Dm Gm
Always brings my feelings right out loud
Bb C Gm C Bb F
Whether I'm ashamed or proud
Bridge
Gm Am Bb F
On this airplane comin' home to you
Gm Am Bb
Sometimes I think I've flown my whole life through
D# D7 C
My whole life...through
Bb Am Gm Dm C Bb C Bb F
As I wing my way to you
Verse 3
C# Dm C# F
See the clouds they're giving life below
C# Dm A F7
In colors that the canvas cannot show
Dm Gm
Keeping secrets no one else could know
Bb C Gm C Bb F
For I'm the one who told them so
Verse 4
Gm Am Bb F
Now and then I get up close to you
Gm Am Bb
I'd like to stay but I'm just passing through
Gm Am Bb C
So I'll have to say goodbye
Gm Am Bb C F C# F C# F
Until next time I fly
flyinglibra51
God Bless Glen Travis Campbell
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