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Song title:      Dance Me To The End Of Love
Original Album:	 Various Positions

Words and Music by Leonard Cohen
Copyright © 1984 Columbia Records
Published by Sony Music Publishing

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)



INTRO:
Chords:
Am     x02210
Em     022000
B7(b9) x34445 or x21212


[play:]  [x2]

| Am                | Em
  La la, la la la la  La la, la la la la

| B7(b9)          | Em
  La     la, la la, la.



VERSE1:
Chords:
Am     x02210
Em     022000
B7(b9) x34445 or x21212


| Am                           | Em
  Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin

| Am                                | Em
  Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in

| Am                             | Em
  Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove


  | B7(b9)               | Em
And dance me to the end of love

    | B7(b9)               | Em
Yeah, dance me to the end of love



VERSE2:
Notes:
Play as for VERSE1.

Chords:
Am     x02210
Em     022000
B7(b9) x34445 or x21212


| Am                            | Em
  Let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone

| Am                             | Em
  Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon

| Am                       | Em
  Show me slowly what I only know the limits of


  | B7(b9)               | Em
And dance me to the end of love

| B7(b9)               | Em
  Dance me to the end of love



VERSE3:
Chords:
Am     x02210
Em     022000
B7(b9) x34445 or x21212


| Am                         | Em
  Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on

| Am                       | Em
  Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long

    | Am                               | Em
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above


  | B7(b9)               | Em
And dance me to the end of love

    | B7(b9)               | Em
Yeah, dance me to the end of love



VERSE4:
Chords:
Am     x02210
Em     022000
B7(b9) x34445 or x21212


| Am                             | Em
  Dance me to the children who are asking to be born

| Am                                   | Em
  Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn

| Am                               | Em
  Raise a tent of shelter now though every thread is torn


| B7(b9)               | Em
  Dance me to the end of love

| B7(b9)               | Em
  Dance me to the end of love


[Violin part]

[repeat INTRO2]

[repeat VERSE1]


| B7(b9)               | Em
  Dance me to the end of love

| B7(b9)               | Em
  Dance me to the end of love


[repeat INTRO2]