From uunet!stanford.edu!Csli!bjorn Tue Aug 18 15:32:33 PDT 1992
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From: [email protected] (Bjorn Strand)
Subject: Re: REQUEST: Bird on a Wire (Leonard Cohen?)
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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 [email protected]
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
