Tower Of Song chords by Leonard Cohen

From: rousseaf@nil.IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Rousseau)


Blues type of song...

Version from the I'm your fan tribute album

TOWER OF SONG (Leonard Cohen)

G
Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey

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


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

Hank Williams hasn't answered yet.
    C               G
But I hear him coughing all night long
   D          C
A hundred floors above me
         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                  G
And twenty-seven angels from the Great beyond
    D              C
They tied me to this table right here
          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                    G
I'm standing by the window where the light is strong
      D          C
They don't let a woman kill you, not
         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
And there's a mighty judgment coming
         G
But I may be wrong
       D          C
You see, you hear these funny voices
          G
In the Tower of Song

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

 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
But You'll be hearing from me, baby
        G
Long after I'm gone
     D               C
I'll be speaking to you sweetly from a window
       G
In the Tower of Song


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Francois Rousseau
Laboratoire Incognito (Computer Languages)
Universite de Montreal, Canada
E-mail: rousseaf@iro.umontreal.ca
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