Tower Of Song chords by Leonard Cohen

Chords with lyrics

From: [email protected] (Francois Rousseau)


Blues type of song...

Version from the I'm your fan tribute album

TOWER OF SONG (Leonard Cohen)

G+G
Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey

I ache in the places where I used to play
    C majorC                   G+G
And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
    D MajorD          C majorC
I'm just paying my rent everyday
         G+G
In the Tower of Song

I said to Hank Williams: How lonely does it get?

Hank Williams hasn't answered yet.
    C majorC               G+G
But I hear him coughing all night long
   D MajorD          C majorC
A augmentedA hundred floors above me
         G+G
In the Tower of Song


I was born like this, I had no choice.

I was born with the gift of a golden voice.
    C majorC                  G+G
And twenty-seven angels from the Great beyond
    D MajorD              C majorC
They tied me to this table right here
          G+G
In the Tower of Song


So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll

I'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all
    C majorC                    G+G
I'm standing by the window where the light is strong
      D MajorD          C majorC
They don't let a woman kill you, not
         G+G
In the Tower of Song

Now you can say that I've grown bitter, but of this you may be sure:

The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
        C majorC
And there's a mighty judgment coming
         G+G
But I may be wrong
       D MajorD          C majorC
You see, you hear these funny voices
          G+G
In the Tower of Song

E minorEm               D MajorD
I see you standing on the other side
E minorEm             D MajorD
I don't know how the river got so wide
  C majorC              G+G
I loved you, baby, way back when
E minorEm                   D MajorD
And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed
E minorEm               D MajorD
But I feel so close to everything that we lost
   C majorC             D MajorD
We'll never have to lose it again

 G+G
I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back

They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
        C majorC
But You'll be hearing from me, baby
        G+G
Long after I'm gone
     D MajorD               C majorC
I'll be speaking to you sweetly from a window
       G+G
In the Tower of Song


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Francois Rousseau
Laboratoire Incognito (Computer Languages)
Universite de Montreal, Canada
E-mail: [email protected]
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