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Song title:       Bird On A Wire
Original Album:   Songs from a Room

Words and Music by Leonard Cohen
Copyright © 1969 Columbia Records
Published by Columbia Records

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)


VERSE1:
Chords:
A x02220    D     xx0232
E 022100    Asus4 x02230


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

       A           E       | A Asus4 A | E
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         | A Asus4 A | E
I have saved all my ribbons for thee



CHORUS1:
Chords:
D  xx0232    Bm x24432
A  x02220    E  022100


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.



VERSE2:
Notes:
Play as for VERSE1.


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.


CHORUS2:
Notes:
Play as for CHORUS1.


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?"


OUTRO:
Chords:
A x02220
E 022100
D xx0232


           A           E            A                   D
Oh, 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