Bird on the Wire
Original Written and Performed by Leonard Cohen
This Version
Jimmy Barnes and Troy Cassar Daley
From the Jimmy Barnes album: Double Happiness 
Tabbed by magga1976
Capo 5th Fret

G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1)           G (320003@1)                 CLike (x32010@1)a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir
        G (320003@1)        D (xx0232@1)           GI (320003@1)have tried in my way to be free
       G (320003@1)       D (xx0232@1)           G (320003@1)                           CLike (x32010@1)a fish on a hook, like a knight from some old-fashioned book
       G (320003@1)          D (xx0232@1)          GI (320003@1)have saved all my ribbons for thee

C (x32010@1)                       GIf (320003@1)I, if I have been unkind
Am (x02210@1)                            DI (xx0232@1)hope that you can let it go by
C (x32010@1)                        GIf (320003@1)I, if I have been untrue,
Am (x02210@1)                               DI (xx0232@1)hope you know it was never to you.

G (320003@1)                D (xx0232@1)         G (320003@1)           CLike (x32010@1)a baby stillborn, like a beast with his horn
	G (320003@1)        D (xx0232@1)                    GI (320003@1)have torn everyone who reached out for me.
G (320003@1)                  D (xx0232@1)        G (320003@1)                   CBut (x32010@1)I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong
G (320003@1)                 D (xx0232@1)     GI (320003@1)will make it all up to thee.

C (x32010@1)                                       G (320003@1) 
I saw a young man leaning on his wooden crutch
Am (x02210@1)                                    DHe (xx0232@1)called out to me, "Don't ask for so much."
C (x32010@1)                                        G (320003@1) 
And a young woman leaning in her darkened door,
Am (x02210@1)                                    DShe (xx0232@1)cried out to me, "Why not ask for more?"

G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1)           G (320003@1)                 CLike (x32010@1)a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir
         G (320003@1)        D (xx0232@1)       CG
I have tried in my way to be free