Bird on the Wire chords by Leonard Cohen

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[G] [Em] .
[D] [E] .
[G] [C] .
[G] [Bm] Like [G] a bird [D] on the wire, [G] like a drone in an old midnight [C] choir.
[G].
I have tried in [D] my way to [G] be free.
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[D] Like [G] a worm, .
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[G] like a knight bent down in some [C] old fashioned book.
It's [G] the shape, the shape of our [D] love that [G] twisted me.
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If I have [C] been unkind, you [Cm] .
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can [Am] find a way.
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[G] If I have been [C] untrue, if I .
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It's just that .
[D] [Am] I thought a liar, I thought a lover had to be some kind of [D] liar too.
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[G] [Dm] .
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[D] [F#m] .
[G] [D] .
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[C] [Gm] Bob .
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[D] [G] Metzger on the guitar.
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Bruno Solo on the saxophone.
[D] [G] .
[D] Like [D#] .
[G] a baby, .
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stillborn.
[G] Like a bee [C] with his horn.
[G] I have toys who [D] .
[G] reached out for me.
[C] But [G] .
[D] [G].
I swear by [D] this song, I swear [G] by all [B] that I have [C] done wrong.
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[G] I will make [D] it all up [G] to me.
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I saw [C] this beggar, he was leaning on [A] .
[G] me.
He [Am] says to me, Leonard, you just can't ask for [G] all that much.
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[C] A pretty woman standing in her [G] darkened room.
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She [Am] cries out to me, hey, why not ask for just a little [D] bit more?.
[G] Like .
[D] .
a [G].
bird on [D] a wire.
Like [G] a drunk in an old [C] midnight choir.
I [G] have tried in my [D] way.
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[C] Free.
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[N] .