The Traitor chords by
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen

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Key: A major
Intro 1
G
G

D
D

G
G

D
D

G
G

Verse 1
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G

Now the Swan
C
C

G
G

it floated on the English river
Ah the Rose of High Ro
C
C

G
G

mance it opened wide
B
B

Em
Em

A sun tanned woman yearned me
C
C

G
G

through the summer
D
D

And the judges watched us
C
C

from the other side
G
G

Verse 2
C
C

I told my mother "Mother
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G

I must leave you
Preserve my room but
C
C

G
G

do not shed a tear
B
B

Em
Em

Should rumour of a shabby
C
C

G
G

ending reach you
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D

It was half my fault and
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C

half the atmosphere"
G
G

Verse 3
But the Rose I sickened
C
C

G
G

with a scarlet fever
C
C

And the Swan I tempted with a
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G

sense of shame
B
B

Em
Em

C
C

G
G

She said at last I was her finest lover
A
A

D
D

And if she withered I would be to blame
Verse 4
G
G

C
C

The judges said you missed
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G

it by a fraction
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C

Rise up and brace your troops
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G

for the attack
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B

Em
Em

Ah the dreamers ride again
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C

G
G

st the men of action
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D

C
C

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Oh see the men of action falling back
Verse 5
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G

C
C

But I lingered on her thighs
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a fatal moment
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C

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G

I kissed her lips as though I thirsted still
B
B

Em
Em

C
C

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My falsity had stung me like a hornet
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D

C
C

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The poison sank and it paralyzed my will
Verse 6
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C
C

I could not move to warn all the
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G

younger soldiers
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C

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G

That they had been deserted from above
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B

Em
Em

So on battlefields from here
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C

G
G

to Barcelona
A
A

D
D

I'm listed with the enemies of love
Verse 7
D
D

G
G

C
C

G
G

And long ago she said "I must be leaving,
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C

G
G

Ah but keep my body here to lie upon
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B

Em
Em

You can move it up and down
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C

G
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and when I'm sleeping
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D

Run some wire through that
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C

Rose and wind the Swan"
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Verse 8
C
C

G
G

So daily I renew my idle duty
C
C

I touch her here and there,
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I know my place
B
B

Em
Em

I kiss her open mouth and I
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C

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praise her beauty
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D

C
C

G
G

And people call me traitor to my face
Outro 1
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G

C
C

G
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C
C

G
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B
B

Em
Em

C
C

G
G

D
D

C
C

G
G

D
D

C
C

G
G

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