COHEN LEONARD - "anthem" Tablature

Date: Wed, 2 Aug 95 01:23:30 -0400
From: Clay Jonathan Boutilier <cjboutil@cgl.uwaterloo.ca>


ANTHEM (L. Cohen)
from Columbia Record's album THE FUTURE by LEONARD COHEN (CK 53226)

Transcribed by Clay Boutilier 07/27/95
<cjboutil@cgl.uwaterloo.ca>
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.

[chorus]:
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.

[chorus]

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.

[chorus]

[chorus]

that's how the light gets in
that's how the light gets in

[instrumental verse twice and fade]