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By The Rivers Dark by Leonard Cohen
By The Rivers Dark
Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: Fm
[Intro]
Fm Eb Fm Db Eb Fm x2
[Verse 1]
Fm Eb Fm
By the rivers dark, I wandered on
Db Eb Fm
I lived my life in Babylon
Fm Eb Fm
And I did forget my holy song
Db Eb Fm
And I had no strength in Babylon
[Chorus]
Ab Bb Fm
By the rivers dark, where I could not see
Db Eb Fm
Who was waiting there, who was hunting me
[Verse 2]
Fm Eb Fm
And he cut my lip, and he cut my heart
Db Eb Fm
So I could not drink from the river dark
Fm Eb Fm
And he covered me, and I saw within
Db Eb Fm
My lawless heart and my wedding ring
[Chorus]
Ab Bb Fm
I did not know, and I could not see
Db Eb Fm
Who was waiting there, who was hunting me
[Verse 3]
Fm Eb Fm
By the rivers dark, I panicked on
Db Eb Fm
I belonged at last to Babylon
Fm Eb Fm
Then he struck my heart with a deadly force
Db Eb Fm
And he said, "This heart, it is not yours"
[Bridge]
Db Eb Fm
And he gave the wind my wedding ring
Db Bb C C7
And he circled us with everything
[Verse 4]
Fm Eb Fm
By the rivers dark, in a wounded dawn
Db Eb Fm
I live my life in Babylon
Fm Eb Fm
Though I take my song from a withered limb
Db Eb Fm
Both song and tree, they sing for him
Fm Eb Fm
Be the truth unsaid and the blessing gone
Db Eb Fm
If I forget my Babylon
[Chorus]
Ab Bb Fm
I did not know, and I could not see
Db Eb Fm
Who was waiting there, who was hunting me
Ab Bb Fm
By the rivers dark, where it all goes on
Db Eb Fm
By the rivers dark in Babylon
[Outro]
Fm Eb Fm Db Eb Fm x2
(Fade out)
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