• Song:

    Chelsea Hotel

  • Artist:

    Leonard Cohen

capo on fifth fret


Verse1:     C (x32010@1)                    F (133211@1)           C (x32010@1)       I remember you well in the Celsea Hotel,
                            G (320003@1)           Am (x02210@1)       You were talking so brave and so sweet;
        C (x32010@1)       G (320003@1)         F (133211@1)         C (x32010@1)       Giving me head on the unmade bed,
                  F (133211@1)                     G (320003@1)       While the limousines waitin the street.
        Am (x02210@1)                       F (133211@1)       Those were the reasons and that was New York,
                C (x32010@1)             E/B (443121@4)          Am (x02210@1)       We were running for the money and the flesh.
            F (133211@1)                          C (x32010@1)       And that was called love for the workers in song,
                 F (133211@1)                         G (320003@1)       Probably still is for those of them left.



Chorus1:           F (133211@1)           C (x32010@1)          Ah, but you got away, didn't you babe,
                                 E/B (443121@4)       Am (x02210@1)          You just turned your back on the crowd,
           F (133211@1)                       C (x32010@1)          You got away,I never once heard you say:
             F (133211@1)               C (x32010@1)          "I need you,I don't need you,
             F (133211@1)               C (x32010@1)          I need you, I don't need you"
               F (133211@1)                 Am (x02210@1)     G (320003@1)          And all of that jiving around.


Verse2:      C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1)         F (133211@1)           C (x32010@1)        I remember you well in the Celsea Hotel:
                               G (320003@1)         Am (x02210@1)        You were famous, your heart was a legend.
             C (x32010@1)      G (320003@1)                F (133211@1)          C (x32010@1)        You told me again you preferred handsome men
                 F (133211@1)                             G (320003@1)        But for me you would make an exception.
             Am (x02210@1)                        F (133211@1)        And clenching your fist for the ones like us
                    C (x32010@1)           E/B (443121@4)      Am (x02210@1)        Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,
             F (133211@1)                        C (x32010@1)        You fixed yourself, you said, "Well never mind,
                F (133211@1)                  G (320003@1)        We are ugly but we have the music."



Chorus2:            F (133211@1)             C (x32010@1)          And then you got away, didn't you baby,
                               E/B (443121@4)       Am (x02210@1)          You just turned your back on the crowd,
           F (133211@1)                        C (x32010@1)          You got away, I never once heard you say:
             F (133211@1)               C (x32010@1)          "I need you,I don't need you,
             F (133211@1)               C (x32010@1)          I need you, I don't need you"
               F (133211@1)                 Am (x02210@1)     G (320003@1)          And all of that jiving around.



Verse3:           C (x32010@1)         G (320003@1)         F (133211@1)                 C (x32010@1)         I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best,
                                G (320003@1)           Am (x02210@1)         I can't keep track of each fallen robin.
              C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1)         F (133211@1)            C (x32010@1)         I remember you well in the Celsea Hotel,
                 F (133211@1)                                  G (320003@1)         That's all, aI don't even think of you that often.

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