The Charity of Night chords by
Bruce Cockburn

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Intro 1
Adim Adim 
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Am Am 
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Bb Bb 
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Am Am 
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Adim Adim 
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Am Am 
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Bb Bb 
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Adim Adim 
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Verse 1

Adim

Big city Europa,

July of '64, it's 5 A.M.

Weather blowing bitter off the Baltic

Verse 2
Bb Bb 
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Car slows beside him as he walks
Hubcaps slow revolution
Am Am 
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Jaundiced-looking pockmarked pockmarked face,
round in window
Adim Adim 
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Short greasy black beard
B B 2
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Couple of language stabs, settle on English

Verse 3
Am Am 
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"It's cold, I'll give you a ride
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Don't you want to kiss
me?"
Am Am 
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Verse 4
Adim Adim 
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This goes on halfway across
the cobbled bridge
Am Am 
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Driver pulls ahead,
gets out by the construction fence
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Ambles towards him rubbing the bulge
in his pants
Am Am 
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Verse 5

Adim

In his jacket is the revolver

The hand is already in the pocket

for warmth

Verse 6
And fingers slide easily around wood grips
Bb Bb 
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Slow as that predator's footsteps
the gun comes out
Am Am 
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Arm straightens,
Adim Adim 
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sight blade bisecting yellow forehead
Wind, blue metal streetlight,
Am Am 
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faint twilight shining on the corners of stones
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Am Am 
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Verse 7
G G 
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F F 
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G G 
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Wave on wave of life
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Like the great wide ocean's roll
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G G 
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Haunting hands of memory
C C 
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Pluck silver strands of soul
F F 
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G G 
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The damage and the dying done
Gsus4 Gsus4 
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G G 
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C C 
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The clarity of light
F F 
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Gsus4 Gsus4 
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Gentle bows and glasses raised
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C C 
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To the charity of night

Interlude 1

Adim

Verse 8
Adim Adim 
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Slow revolution, 1985, crosswise in
a hammock in the hot volcanic hills
Bb Bb 
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It's 3 A.M. the night after the
Am Am 
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Adim Adim 
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air raid
From the ridge she watched
A37s, like ugly gulls
Am Am 
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Make a dozen swooping passes
over some luckless town
Maybe ten klicks beyond
Bb Bb 
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the border
In the distance the Pacific
glimmered silver
Am Am 
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Verse 9
Adim Adim 
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Now lascivious laughter floats on the darkness
Am Am 
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from the police post next door
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Male voices, and a woman's
Am Am 
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Little clouds of desire painted around the edges
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with rum
In the muddy street a pig suddenly
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screams

Interlude 2

Wave on wave

Verse 10
F F 
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G G 
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of life
C C 
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Like the great wide ocean's roll
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G G 
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Haunting hands of memory
C C 
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Pluck silver strands of soul
F F 
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G G 
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The damage and the dying done
C C 
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The clarity of light
F F 
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G G 
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Gentle bows and glasses raised
C C 
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To the charity of night

Interlude 3

Adim

Verse 11
Adim Adim 
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Pacific glimmers silver
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Am Am 
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Moon full over shadow mansion
West coast,
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can't say when
There is incense and the heat-driven
scent scent of flowers
Am Am 
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Verse 12
Adim Adim 
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Tongue slides over soft skin
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Love pounds in veins brains
buzzing balls of lust
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Fingers twine in wet hair
Limbs twist and roll
Am Am 
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Verse 13
Adim Adim 
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On the dresser wax drips in slow
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motion down the long side of
A black candle
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Ecstatic halo of flame and
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pheromone
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Wave on wave

Verse 14
F F 
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of life
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Like the great wide ocean's roll
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G G 
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Haunting hands of memory
C C 
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Pluck silver strands of soul
F F 
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G G 
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The damage and the dying done
C C 
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The clarity of light
F F 
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G G 
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Gentle bows and glasses raised
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To the charity of night

Outro 1

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