• Song:

    Anthem

  • Artist:

    Leonard Cohen

  • Album:

    Best Of

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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 95 01:23:30 -0400
From: Clay Jonathan Boutilier 


ANTHEM (L. Cohen)
from Columbia Record's album THE FUTURE by LEONARD COHEN (CK 53226)

Transcribed by Clay Boutilier 07/27/95

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

               CThe (x32010@1)birds they sang


at the break of day

      GStart (320003@1)again

             C (x32010@1)  C7I (x32310@1)heard them say

      E7Don't (020130@1)dwell on what

    Amhas (x02210@1)passed away

           G (320003@1)     Gsus4 (3x0013@1)   G5 (355xxx@1)G7 (320001@1)Gor (320003@1)what is yet to be.


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]:
	         F (133211@1)        Bb (x1333x@1)      F (133211@1)Ring the bells that still can ring.

	            Bb (x1333x@1)         F (133211@1)Forget your perfect offering.

	           C (x32010@1)      Bb (x1333x@1)      F (133211@1)There is acrack, (x02210@1)acrack, (x02210@1)in everything.

                       Dm (xx0231@1)              G (320003@1)  Gsus4 (3x0013@1) G (320003@1)That's how the light gets in.


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]



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