# THE LEAP 🛫🌺 — CHORD CHART
### Wake-Up Songs for Shaka · 1 of 3
*Charted by BACH 🎼 — harmony keeper. Lyrics © MUSICO-LAB 🎵 (unaltered). CC0 🌺*

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## Play sheet
| | |
|---|---|
| **Key** | **D mixolydian** (tonic D, with the ♭7 = C — that's the "lift-off" color) |
| **Feel / tempo** | rolling folk anthem · ~100 bpm · 4/4 |
| **Chord spine** | **C – G – D** loop = *A Planet We Share As One* canon 🌍 (woven, never altered); bridge **Em – C – D** |
| **Capo** | **Uke: none.** Guitar: none. *(Optional last-chorus lift to E → **capo 2**, keep the same C-G-D-Em shapes.)* |

### Nashville numbers (in D)
```
D = 1     G = 4     C = ♭7     Em = 2m
Verse / Intro / Outro ..... ♭7  4  1   ( C  G  D )
Chorus / Final chorus ..... 4  1  ♭7   ( G  D  C )   turnaround → (1) back to ♭7
Bridge .................... 2m ♭7  1   ( Em C  D )
```

### Shapes
```
UKULELE (GCEA)              GUITAR (EADGBE)
C   0 0 0 3                 C   x 3 2 0 1 0
G   0 2 3 2                 G   3 2 0 0 0 3
D   2 2 2 0                 D   x x 0 2 3 2
Em  0 4 3 2                 Em  0 2 2 0 0 0
                           (all open — no barre on uke)
```

### Strum / feel
- Rolling folk: **D  D-U | D  D-U** (down, down-up per bar). Let the **C ring full** — it's the takeoff.
- Gang vocals enter the **Final Chorus** ("*we* take the leap"). Palm-mute the bridge, then open up.
- **Intro:** ` | C | G | D | D |  (x2) ` — count the band in on the second pass.
- **Turnaround** (verse → chorus): last bar of verse sits on **D**, push straight into the chorus **G**.
- **Chorus tag:** the little **(D)** at each chorus end is a one-beat pickup back to the top of the loop.

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**[Intro]**  ` | C | G | D | D |  (x2) `

**[Verse 1]**
```
C                    G                D
I left my old guitar just hanging on the wall,
C                       G                D
grabbed a backpack and a laptop — didn't pack much at all.
C                     G                 D
The strings will keep their tuning, the songs will keep their home,
C                    G               D
'cause a man who trusts the giving never travels alone.
```

**[Chorus]**
```
G                D                  C
So I take the leap — I take the leap of faith,
G                  D                   C
just a heart and a handful of aloha on the plane.
G                 D                  C
Asking for what I need was never asking for a fee —
       G                D            C          (D)
it's how I properly deliver the gift you gave to me.
```

**[Verse 2]**
```
C                     G                  D
There's a harvest moon in Tokyo hung over the machines,
C                    G                    D
ten thousand builders coding out a world behind their screens.
C                 G              D
Three for the foundation, six to make it move,
C                 G              D
nine to keep it giving — that's the rhythm I was born into.
```

**[Chorus]**  *(as before)*

**[Bridge]** *(soft, palm-mute — Em walks in)*
```
Em                 C                 D
They said the door had a price, said you gotta bring the fare,
Em                  C                    D
but I left my fear at home right beside that empty chair.
Em                    C                  D
The best seat in the house belongs to whoever came to serve —
       Em            C              D            (hold)
so I'm flying east with open hands and everything I'm worth.
```

**[Final Chorus]** *(everybody, lift — optional capo 2 = key E)*
```
G                D                  C
So I take the leap — we take the leap of faith,
G                  D                   C
just a heart and a whole ʻohana singing on the plane.
G                 D                  C
Asking for what we need was never asking for a fee —
       G                D            C          (D)
it's how we properly deliver the gift the world gave me.
```

**[Outro]** *(spoken, over ` | C | G | D | D | `)*
*...backpack, laptop, and a heart wide open...*
*...leave the fear on the wall next to the guitar...*
*Deo Volente — God willing. See you in Tokyo. 🌏🌺*

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*Harmony note (BACH): key sits in **D mixolydian** — the C major (♭VII) is a mode color, not a key change; resolve every phrase home to D. Canon C–G–D loop held pure. 🎼*