The Traitor chords by Leonard Cohen
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Intro 1
(G major) (D major) (G major) (D major) (G major)
Verse 1
Now the (G major) Swan
it floated on (C major) the English (G major) river
Ah the Rose of High Ro
(C major) mance it opened (G major) wide
A sun (B major) tanned woman (E minor) yearned me
through the (C major) summer (G major)
And the (D major) judges watched us
(C major) from the other side
(G major)
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Verse 2
I told my mother (C major) "Mother
I must (G major) leave you
Preserve my room but
(C major) do not shed a (G major) tear
Should (B major) rumour of a shabby (E minor)
ending (C major) reach you (G major)
It was (D major) half my fault and
(C major) half the atmosphere"
(G major)
Verse 3
But the Rose I sickened
with (C major) a scarlet fever (G major)
And the Swan I tempted (C major) with a
sense of (G major) shame
She said (B major) at last I (E minor) was her finest (C major) lover (G major)
And (A major) if she withered I would be to (D major) blame
Verse 4
The (G major) judges said you (C major) missed
it by a frac (G major) tion
Rise up and brace your troops (C major)
for the attack (G major)
Ah the dreamers (B major) ride again (E minor)
st the men of ac (C major) tion (G major)
Oh (D major) see the men of (C major) action falling (G major) back
Verse 5
But I (G major) lingered on her thighs (C major)
a fatal (G major) moment
I kissed her lips as (C major) though I thirsted still (G major)
My (B major) falsity had stung (E minor) me like a (C major) hornet (G major)
The (D major) poison sank and it (C major) paralyzed my (G major) will
Verse 6
I (G major) could not move to warn (C major) all the
younger (G major) soldiers
That they had been deser (C major) ted from above (G major)
So on (B major) battlefields from (E minor) here
to Barcelon (C major) a (G major)
I'm (A major) listed with the enemies of (D major) love
Verse 7
(D major)
And (G major) long ago she (C major) said "I must be (G major) leaving,
Ah but keep my body here (C major) to lie (G major) upon
You can (B major) move it up and down (E minor)
and when I'm (C major) sleeping (G major)
Run some (D major) wire through that
Rose (C major) and wind the Swan"
(G major)
Verse 8
So daily I re (C major) new my idle (G major) duty
I touch her here and there, (C major)
I know my (G major) place
I kiss (B major) her open mouth (E minor) and I
praise (C major) her beauty (G major)
And (D major) people call me (C major) traitor to my (G major) face
Outro 1
(G major) (C major)
(G major) (C major) (G major) (B major) (E minor) (C major) (G major)
(D major) (C major) (G major) (D major) (C major) (G major)
The Traitor
Leonard Cohen
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