Cohen Leonard - Anthem guitar chord

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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 95 01:23:30 -0400

From: Clay Jonathan Boutilier

ANTHEM (L. Cohen)

from Columbia Record's album THE FUTURE by LEONARD COHEN (CK 53226)

Transcribed by Clay Boutilier 07/27/95

URL:  http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~cjboutil

NOTES:

* capo instrument at 1st fret

* all verses similar to 1st verse in chord structure

Introduction:  Am    /G

               C

The birds they sang

at the break of day

      G

Start again

             C    C7

I heard them say

      E7

Don't dwell on what

    Am

has passed away

           G       Gsus4     G5  G7  G

or what is yet to be.

The wars they will

be fought again

The holy dove

be caught again

bought and sold

and bought again

the dove is never free.

[chorus]:

         F          Bb        F

Ring the bells that still can ring.

            Bb           F

Forget your perfect offering.

           C        Bb        F

There is a crack, a crack, in everything.

                       Dm                G    Gsus4   G

That's how the light gets in.

We asked for signs

the signs were sent:

the birth betrayed

the marriage spent

the widowhood

of every government -

signs for all to see.

Can't run no more

with the lawless crowd

while the killers in high places

say their prayers out loud.

But they've summed up

a thundercloud

and they're going to hear from me.

[chorus]

You can add up the parts

but you won't have the sum

You can strike up the march,

there is no drum

Every heart

to love will come

but like a refugee.

[chorus]

[chorus]

that's how the light gets in

that's how the light gets in

[instrumental verse twice and fade]