Chords for LEONARD COHEN 🎤 Closing Time 🎶 (Live at The Junos) 1993

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Our first guest performer defines the essence of inspiration, the pursuit of truth, and [D#] the magic of the creative force.
He's a member of the Juna Hall of Fame, [F#] nominated tonight in three categories including Best Male Vocalist.
Please welcome, passionate Montrealer [N] and a voice of experience, Leonard Cohen.
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_ [G] Yeah, we're drinkin' and we're dancin' The band is really happenin'
[Em] The Johnny Walker wisdom runnin' high
And [Bm] my very sweet companion She's the angel of compassion
[Em] She's rubbin' half the world against her thigh
And every [C] drinker, every dancer Lives a happy face to thank her
[G] The fiddler fiddles [B] somethin' so [Em] sublime
_ [D] All the women tear their blouses off The men they dance on the polka dots
[C] His partner found and his partner lost And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
[G] It's closin' time, closin' time, closin' time, closin' time
[C] Yeah, the women tear their blouses off And the men they dance on the polka dots
[G] His partner found [B] and his partner lost [Em] And it's hell to pay [C] when the fiddler stops
_ [C] _ _ [G] It's closin' time
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_ _ _ _ Oh, [G] we're lonely, we're romantic And the cider leans with acid
And [E] the Holy Spirit's cryin', where's the bee?
[Em] _ And [Bm] the moon is swimmin' naked And the summer night is fragrant
With a [Em] mad expectation of relief
_ So [C] we struggle and we stagger down the stakes And up the ladder to [G] the tower
Where [B] the blessed [Em] hour's a-chiming
And [D] I swear it happened just like Mrs.
Syre Cry a hungry kiss, [C] the gates of love they budge in
And I can't say much has happened since [G] But closin' time, closin' time, closin' time, closin' time
I swear it happened just like Mrs.
Syre Cry a hungry kiss, [G] the gates of love [B] they budge in
And I [E] can't say much [C] has happened _ since _ [C] Can't say much has happened since
[G] But closin' _ time, _ _ _ [D] _
closin' time
_ _ [Em] I loved you for your beauty That does not make a fool of me
[Bm] You were in it for your beauty, too
_ _ [Em] I loved you for your body There's a voice that sounds like God to me [A] Declarin' _
Declarin'
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[D] Declarin' Declarin'
Declarin'
That your body's really you
I [C] loved you when our love was blessed And I love you now, there's nothin' left
[G] But sorrow [B] and a sense of [Em] over time
_ [D] And I miss you since our place got wrecked And I just don't care what happens
[C] Looks like freedom but it feels like death Something in between, I guess it's closin' time
Closin' time, closin' time, closin' time
I miss you since our place got wrecked By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
[G] Looks like freedom [B] but it feels like [E] death It's somethin' in [C] between, I guess _
_ _ [G] It's closin' time, _ closin' [D] _ time _ _ _
_ [G] Oh, we're drinkin' and we're dancin' But there's nothin' really happenin'
[Em] The place is dead as heaven on a Saturday night
And [Bm] my very close companion Gets me fumblin', gets me laughin'
She's a [Em] hundred but she's wearin' somethin' tight
_ [C] And I lift my glass to the awful truth Which you can't reveal to the ears of [G] youth
Except to say it isn't [Em] worth a dime
_ [D] And the whole damn place goes crazy twice And it's once for the devil and it's once for [C] Christ
The moths all like these did they hide Were busted in the blinding [G] light of closin' time
_ Closin' time, closin' time, closin' [C] time
And the whole damn place goes crazy twice And it's once for the devil and it's once for [G] Christ
But the moths don't like these did they [Em] hide Were busted in the [C] blinding light
_ _ _ Busted in the blinding [G] light of closin' time _
_ _ [D] _ _ Closin' time, _ _ _ [G] closin' time _ _
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_ _ [N] Closin' _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ time, closin' time _ _