Take This Longing chords by Leonard Cohen

• Capo on 2nd

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: C

Difficulty: Novice

Original in Bb

INTRO:

D


VERSE 1:

C                      G
Many men have loved the bells
C                   G
You fastened to the rein
Em                      Am
And everyone who wanted you
Em                        D      Em     D
They found what they will always want again
F#m                             Bm
Your beauty lost to you yourself
     F#m               Bm
Just as it was lost to them

CHORUS:

    G                         D
Oh take this longing from my tongue
    G                                     D
Whatever useless things these hands have done
  G                            D
Let me see your beauty broken down
F#m                G               D
    Like you would do for one you love

VERSE 2:

C                G
Your body like a searchlight
C             G
My poverty revealed
Em                        Am
I would like to try your charity
Em                  D         Em     D
Until you cry, "Now you must try my greed."
F#m                     Bm
And everything depends upon
     F#m               Bm
How near you sleep to me

CHORUS:

    G                         D
Oh take this longing from my tongue
    G                                     D
Whatever useless things these hands have done
  G                            D
Let me see your beauty broken down
F#m                G               D
    Like you would do for one you love

VERSE 3:

C             G
Hungry as an archway
C                              G
Through which the troops have passed
Em                  Am
I stand in ruins behind you
                    Em          D      Em     D
With your winter clothes, your broken sandal straps
F#m                          Bm
I love to see you naked over there
      F#m           Bm
Especially from the back

CHORUS:

    G                         D
Oh take this longing from my tongue
    G                                     D
Whatever useless things these hands have done
  G                            D
Let me see your beauty broken down
F#m                G               D
    Like you would do for one you love

VERSE 4:

C                             G
You're faithful to the better man
C                  G
I'm afraid that he left
Em                          Am
So let me judge your love affair
             Em                D         Em       D
In this very room where I have sentenced mine to death
 F#m                             Bm
I'll even wear these old laurel leaves
          F#m             Bm
That he's shaken from his head

CHORUS:

    G                         D
Oh take this longing from my tongue
    G                                     D
Whatever useless things these hands have done
  G                            D
Let me see your beauty broken down
F#m                G               D
    Like you would do for one you love

OUTRO:
               G               D
Like you would do for one you love