By The Rivers Dark chords by Leonard Cohen

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
F minorFm Eb MajorEb F minorFm DbDb Eb MajorEb F minorFm  x2

Verse 1:
F minorFm           Eb MajorEb   F minorFm
By the rivers dark, I wandered on
DbDb      Eb MajorEb  F minorFm
I lived my life in Babylon
F minorFm          Eb MajorEb  F minorFm
And I did forget my holy song
DbDb         Eb MajorEb  F minorFm
And I had no strength in Babylon

Chorus:
AbAb       Bb majorBb           F minorFm
By the rivers dark, where I could not see
DbDb        Eb MajorEb          F minorFm
Who was waiting there, who was hunting me

Verse 2:
F minorFm            Eb MajorEb   F minorFm
And he cut my lip, and he cut my heart
DbDb        Eb MajorEb      F minorFm
So I could not drink from the river dark
F minorFm            Eb MajorEb   F minorFm
And he covered me, and I saw within
DbDb      Eb MajorEb    F minorFm
My lawless heart and my wedding ring

Chorus:
AbAb     Bb majorBb          F minorFm
I did not know, and I could not see
DbDb        Eb MajorEb          F minorFm
Who was waiting there, who was hunting me

Verse 3:
F minorFm          Eb MajorEb    F minorFm
By the rivers dark, I panicked on
DbDb       Eb MajorEb  F minorFm
I belonged at last to Babylon
F minorFm               Eb MajorEb   F minorFm
Then he struck my heart with a deadly force
DbDb          Eb MajorEb   F minorFm
And he said, "This heart, it is not yours"

Bridge:
DbDb        Eb MajorEb F minorFm
And he gave the wind my wedding ring
DbDb           Bb majorBb   C majorC C7C7
And he circled us with everything

Verse 4:
F minorFm            Eb MajorEb   F minorFm
By the rivers dark, in a wounded dawn
DbDb     Eb MajorEb  F minorFm
I live my life in Babylon
F minorFm              Eb MajorEb    F minorFm
Though I take my song from a withered limb
DbDb       Eb MajorEb    F minorFm
Both song and tree, they sing for him
F minorFm              Eb MajorEb   F minorFm
Be the truth unsaid and the blessing gone
DbDb    Eb MajorEb   F minorFm
If I forget my Babylon

Chorus:
AbAb     Bb majorBb          F minorFm
I did not know, and I could not see
DbDb        Eb MajorEb          F minorFm
Who was waiting there, who was hunting me
AbAb       Bb majorBb           F minorFm
By the rivers dark, where it all goes on
DbDb       Eb MajorEb   F minorFm
By the rivers dark in Babylon

Outro:
F minorFm Eb MajorEb F minorFm DbDb Eb MajorEb F minorFm  x2

(Fade out)