By the Rivers Dark chords by Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson
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Intro 1
(E minor)
(D major) (C major) (E minor) (D major)
(E minor)
Verse 1
By the rivers dark (E minor)
I (D major) wandered (E minor) on. (D major) (C major)
I lived my life (D major)
In (E minor) Babylon.
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Verse 2
(E minor)
And I did forget
My (D major) holy song (E minor) (D major) (C major)
And I had no strength (D major)
In Babylon.
(E minor)
Verse 3
(G major)
By the river (A major) s dark
Where I could not see (E minor) (C major)
Who was waiting there (D major)
Who was hunting (E minor) me.
Verse 4
(E minor)
And he cut my lip
And he (D major) cut my heart. (E minor) (D major) (C major)
So I could not drink
(D major) From the river (E minor) dark.
Verse 5
(E minor)
And he covered me,
And I saw (D major) within,
(E minor) (C major) My lawless heart (D major)
And my (E minor) wedding ring,
Verse 6
(G major)
I did not know (A major)
And I could not see (E minor) (C major)
Who was waiting there, (D major)
Who was hunting (E minor) me.
Verse 7
(E minor)
By the rivers dark
(G major) I pan (B minor) icked on. (E minor) (D major) (C major)
I belonged at last (D major)
To (E minor) Babylon.
Verse 8
(E minor)
Then he struck my heart
With a deadly (D major) for (E minor) ce, (C major)
And he said, â??This heart (D major)
It is (E minor) not yours.'
Verse 9
And he (C major) gave the wind (D major)
(E minor) My wedding ring
And he circled (C major) us
With (A minor) everything.
(B major)
Verse 10
(E minor)
By the rivers dark,
In a wounded (D major) (B minor) dawn, (E minor) (D major) (C major)
I live my life (D major)
In (E minor) Babylon.
Verse 11
(E minor)
Though I take my song
From a withered (D major) (B minor) limb, (E minor) (G major) (C major)
Both song and tree, (D major)
They sing (E minor) for him.
Verse 12
(E minor)
Be the truth unsaid
And the bless (D major) (B minor) ing gone, (E minor) (C major)
If I forget (D major)
My Babylon.
(E minor)
Verse 13
(G major)
I did not know (A major)
And I could not see (E minor) (C major)
Who was waiting there, (D major)
Who was hunting me.
(E minor)
Verse 14
(G major)
By the river (E minor) s dark, (A major)
Where it all goes (E minor) on (C major)
By the rivers dark (D major)
Outro 1
In Babylon.
(E minor)
(C major) (D major)
(E minor)
(Asus4) (E minor)
(C major) (D major)
(E minor)
By the Rivers Dark
Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson
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