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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 95 01:23:30 -0400
From: Clay Jonathan Boutilier <cjboutil@cgl.uwaterloo.ca>
ANTHEM (L. Cohen)
from Columbia Record's album THE FUTURE by LEONARD COHEN (CK 53226)
Transcribed by Clay Boutilier 07/27/95
<cjboutil@cgl.uwaterloo.ca>
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
The birds they Csang
at the break of day
Start Gagain
I heard them Csay C7
Don't E7dwell on what
has Ampassed away
or what is Gyet to bGsus4e. G5 G7 G
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]:
Ring the Fbells that Bbstill can Fring.
Forget your Bbperfect offerFing.
There is a Ccrack, a Bbcrack, in Feverything.
That's how the light gDmets in. G Gsus4 G
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]