Leonard Cohen - Bird On A Wire guitar tab

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From: bjorn@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Bjorn Strand)

Subject: Re: REQUEST: Bird on a Wire (Leonard Cohen?)

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>Would someone please post the words and chords to "Bird on a Wire"? I believe

>it is by Leonard Cohen. Thanks in advance.

>

>Terry Bruns terry_bruns@stortek.com

Bird on the Wire by Leonard Cohen

(from the CD Songs from a Room)

A E A D

Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir

A E Asus4 A

I have tried in my way to be free

A E A D

Like a worm on a hook, like a knight from some old-fashioned book

A E Asus4 A

I have saved all my ribbons for thee

D A

If I, if I have been unkind

Bm A

I hope that you can just let it go by

D A

If I, if I have been untrue,

Bm E

I hope you know it was never to you.

Like a baby stillborn, like a beast with his horn

I have torn everyone who reached out for me.

But I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong

I will make it all up to thee.

I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch

He said to me, "You must not ask for so much."

And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,

She cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"

A E A D

Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir

A E D A

I have tried in my way to be free