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From uunet!stanford.edu!Csli!bjorn Tue Aug 18 15:32:33 PDT 1992
Article: 1652 of alt.guitar.tab
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab
Path: nevada.edu!uunet!stanford.edu!Csli!bjorn
From: bjorn@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Bjorn Strand)
Subject: Re: REQUEST: Bird on a Wire (Leonard Cohen?)
Message-ID: <1992Aug18.092642.11198@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
References: <16846BD12.BRUNS@LSTC2VM.stortek.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 09:26:42 GMT
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>Would someone please post the words and chords to "Bird on a Wire"? I believe
>it is by Leonard Cohen. Thanks in advance.
>
>Terry Bruns terry_bruns@stortek.com
Bird on the Wire by Leonard Cohen
(from the CD Songs from a Room)
A E A D
Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir
A E Asus4 A
I have tried in my way to be free
A E A D
Like a worm on a hook, like a knight from some old-fashioned book
A E Asus4 A
I have saved all my ribbons for thee
D A
If I, if I have been unkind
Bm A
I hope that you can just let it go by
D A
If I, if I have been untrue,
Bm E
I hope you know it was never to you.
Like a baby stillborn, like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me.
But I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee.
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch
He said to me, "You must not ask for so much."
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,
She cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"
A E A D
Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir
A E D A
I have tried in my way to be free
