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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
C
The birds they sang
at the break of day
G
Start again
C C7
I heard them say
E7
Don’t dwell on what
Am
has passed away
G Gsus4 G5 G7 G
or 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.
F Bb F
Ring the bells that still can ring.
Bb F
Forget your perfect offering.
C Bb F
There is a crack, a crack, in everything.
Dm G Gsus4 G
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.
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.
that’s how the light gets in
that’s how the light gets in
