By The Rivers Dark chords by Leonard Cohen

Intro:
Fm Eb Fm Db Eb Fm  x2

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

Chorus:
Ab       Bb           Fm
By the rivers dark, where I could not see
Db        Eb          Fm
Who was waiting there, who was hunting me

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

Chorus:
Ab     Bb          Fm
I did not know, and I could not see
Db        Eb          Fm
Who was waiting there, who was hunting me

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

Bridge:
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And he gave the wind my wedding ring
Db           Bb   C C7
And he circled us with everything

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

Chorus:
Ab     Bb          Fm
I did not know, and I could not see
Db        Eb          Fm
Who was waiting there, who was hunting me
Ab       Bb           Fm
By the rivers dark, where it all goes on
Db       Eb   Fm
By the rivers dark in Babylon

Outro:
Fm Eb Fm Db Eb Fm  x2

(Fade out)