Suzanne chords by Nina Simone

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:
E MajorE        Esus4Esus4     E MajorE      Esus4Esus4
Suzanne takes you down to her place by the river
     F# minorF#m       F#sus4F#sus4
You can hear the boats go by
     F# minorF#m       F#sus4F#sus4
You can spend the night forever
     E MajorE        Esus4Esus4
And you know that she's half crazy
     E MajorE        Esus4Esus4
And that's why you wanna be there
      G# minorG#m        G#sus4G#sus4
And she feeds you tea and oranges
      A augmentedA        Asus4Asus4
That come all the way from China
     E MajorE        Esus4Esus4
And just when you mean to tell her
     F# minorF#m       F#sus4F#sus4
That you have no love to give her
     E MajorE        Esus4Esus4
Then she gets you on her wavelength
     F# minorF#m       F#sus4F#sus4
And she lets the river answer
     E MajorE        Esus4Esus4
That you've always been her lover

Chorus:
    G# minorG#m       G#sus4G#sus4
And you want to travel with her
      A augmentedA        Asus4Asus4
And you want to travel blind
     E MajorE        Esus4Esus4
And you know that she will trust you
     F# minorF#m       F#sus4F#sus4        E MajorE
For you've touched her perfect body with your mind

Yeah

Verse 2:
E MajorE        Esus4Esus4
Now Jesus was a sailor
     E MajorE      Esus4Esus4
When he walked upon the water
     F# minorF#m       F#sus4F#sus4
And he spent a long time watching
     F# minorF#m       F#sus4F#sus4
From his lonely wooden tower
     E MajorE        Esus4Esus4
And when he knew for certain
     E MajorE        Esus4Esus4
Only drowning men could see him
      G# minorG#m        G#sus4G#sus4
He said "All men will be sailors then
      A augmentedA        Asus4Asus4
Until the sea shall free them"
     E MajorE        Esus4Esus4
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
     F# minorF#m       F#sus4F#sus4
But he himself was broken
     E MajorE        Esus4Esus4
Long before the sky would open
 F# minorF#m       F#sus4F#sus4
Forsaken, almost human
     E MajorE        Esus4Esus4
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone

Chorus:
    G# minorG#m       G#sus4G#sus4
And you want to travel with him
      A augmentedA        Asus4Asus4
And you want to travel blind
     E MajorE        Esus4Esus4
'Cause you think maybe you can trust him
     F# minorF#m       F#sus4F#sus4        E MajorE
'Cause he's touched your perfect body with his mind

Yeah

Verse 3:
E MajorE        Esus4Esus4
Now Suzanne takes your hand
     E MajorE      Esus4Esus4
And she leads you to the river
     F# minorF#m       F#sus4F#sus4
She is wearing rags and feathers
     F# minorF#m       F#sus4F#sus4
From Salvation Army counters
     E MajorE        Esus4Esus4
And the sun pours down like honey
     E MajorE        Esus4Esus4
On our lady of the harbour
      G# minorG#m        G#sus4G#sus4
And she shows you where to look
      A augmentedA        Asus4Asus4
Between the garbage and the flowers
     E MajorE        Esus4Esus4
There are heroes in the seaweed
     F# minorF#m       F#sus4F#sus4
There are children in the morning
     E MajorE        Esus4Esus4
They are leaning, leaning out for love
     F# minorF#m       F#sus4F#sus4
And they will lean that way forever
     E MajorE        Esus4Esus4
While Suzanne holds the mirror

Chorus:
    G# minorG#m       G#sus4G#sus4
And you want to travel with her
      A augmentedA        Asus4Asus4
And you want to travel blind
     E MajorE        Esus4Esus4
'Cause you know that maybe you can trust her
     F# minorF#m       F#sus4F#sus4      E MajorE
She's touched your perfect body with her mind