Stories Of The Street chords by Leonard Cohen

Chords with lyrics

Intro: A minorAm

   A minorAm       C majorC           E minorEm      B minorBm
The stories of the street are mine, the Spanish voices laugh.
A minorAm        C majorC            E minorEm         B minorBm
The Cadillacs go creeping now through the night and the poison gas,
  A minorAm       FF         G+G  F#F#    BB
and I lean from my window sill in this old hotel I chose,
  E MajorE        A augmentedA    E MajorE        D MajorD    A augmentedA  A minorAm
yes one hand on my suicide, one hand on the rose.

  A minorAm          C majorC      E minorEm       B minorBm
I know you've heard it's over now and war must surely come,
A minorAm           C majorC           E minorEm      B minorBm
 the cities they are broke in half and the middle men are gone.
  A minorAm       FF         G+G   F#F#   BB
But let me ask you one more time, O children of the dusk,
      E MajorE         A augmentedA       E MajorE        D MajorD   A augmentedA  A minorAm
All these hunters who are shrieking now oh do they speak for us?

   A minorAm         C majorC      E minorEm        B minorBm
And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?
A minorAm         C majorC          E minorEm         B minorBm
Why are the armies marching still that were coming home to me?
  A minorAm       FF      G+G   F#F#     BB
O lady with your legs so fine O stranger at your wheel,
     E MajorE        A augmentedA          E MajorE        D MajorD    A augmentedA  A minorAm
You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

  A minorAm     C majorC           E minorEm        B minorBm
The age of lust is giving birth, and both the parents ask
A minorAm           C majorC        E minorEm         B minorBm
 the nurse to tell them fairy tales on both sides of the glass.
A minorAm         FF         G+G    F#F#   BB
 And now the infant with his cord is hauled in like a kite,
   E MajorE          A augmentedA      E MajorE           D MajorD    A augmentedA  A minorAm
and one eye filled with blueprints, one eye filled with night.

  A minorAm       C majorC      E minorEm        B minorBm
O come with me my little one, we will find that farm
   A minorAm       C majorC        E minorEm          B minorBm
and grow us grass and apples there and keep all the animals warm.
  A minorAm       FF          G+G   F#F#   BB
And if by chance I wake at night and I ask you who I am,
  E MajorE       A augmentedA           E MajorE          D MajorD    A augmentedA  A minorAm
O take me to the slaughterhouse, I will wait there with the lamb.

   A minorAm       C majorC       E minorEm       B minorBm
With one hand on the hexagram and one hand on the girl
  A minorAm     C majorC          E minorEm        B minorBm
I balance on a wishing well that all men call the world.
  A minorAm       FF         G+G   F#F#     BB
We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky,
   E MajorE       A augmentedA        E MajorE        D MajorD    A augmentedA  A minorAm
and lost among the subway crowds I try to catch your eye.