Tablature closingtime - Leonard Cohen

          



 # From: Clay Jonathan Boutilier <cjboutil@cgl.uwaterloo.ca>

  #URL:  http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~cjboutil/

  {t:CLOSING TIME}

  {st:Leonard Cohen}

  #from Columbia Records' album THE FUTURE by LEONARD COHEN (CK 53226)

  

  {c:Introduction:}

  G    /D    /G   D

  

  Ah, we're [G]drinking and we're dancing

  and the band is really happening

  and the [Em]Johnny Walker wisdom running high,

  And my [Bm]very sweet companion,

  she's the Angel of Compassion

  and she's [Em]rubbing half the world against her thigh.

  And every [C]drinker, every dancer

  lifts a happy face to thank her

  and the [G]fiddler fiddles [B7]something so sub[Em]lime

  all the [D]women tear their blouses off

  the men they dance on the polka dots

  and it's [C]partner found and it's partner lost

  and it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops

  it's [G]CLOSING TIME

  Yeah, the [C]women tear their blouses off

  the men they dance on the polka dots

  and it's [G]partner found and it's [B7]partner lost

  and it's [Em]hell to pay when the [C]fiddler stops

  it's [G]CLOSING TIME   [D]  

  

  We're [G]lonely, we're romantic

  and the cider's laced with acid

  and the [Em]Holy Spirit's crying, "Where's the beef?"

  And the [Bm]moon is swimming naked

  and the summer night is fragrant

  with a [Em]mighty expectation of relief

  So we [C]struggle and we stagger

  down the snakes and up the ladder

  to the [G]tower where the [B7]blessed hours [Em]chime

  and I [D]swear it happened just like this:

  a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss

  the [C]Gates of Love they budged an inch

  I can't say much has happened since

  but [G]CLOSING TIME

  I [C]swear it happned just like this:

  a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss

  the [G]Gates of Love they [B7]budged an inch

  I [Em]can't say much has [C]happened since

    (can't say much has happned since, can't say much has happened since)

  but [G]CLOSING TIME, [D]CLOSING TIME

  

  I [Em]loved you for your beauty

  but that doesn't make a fool of me

  [Bm]you were in it for your beauty too

  and I [Em]loved you for your body

  there's a voice that sounds like God to me

  [A]declaring (declaring) declaring ([A7]declaring)

  [D]declaring that you're body's really you (really really really really)

  I [C]loved you when our love was blessed

  I love you now there's nothing left

  but [G]sorrow and a [B7]sense of over[Em]time

  and I [D]miss you since the place got wrecked

  but I just don't care what happens next

  [C]looks like freedom but it feels like death

  it's something in between, I guess

  it's [G]CLOSING TIME

  Yeah. I [C]miss you since the place got wrecked

  by the winds of change and the weeds of sex

  [G]looks like freedom but it [B7]feels like death

  it's [Em]something in be[C]tween, I guess

  it's [G]CLOSING TIME[D]

  Yeah, we're [G]drinking and we're dancing

  but there's nothing really happening

  The [Em]place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night

  And my [Bm]very close companion

  gets me fumbing gets me laughing

  she's a [Em]hundred but she's wearing something tight

  And I [C]lift my glass to the Awful Truth

  which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth

  ex[G]cept to say it [B7]isn't worth a [Em]dime

  And the [D]whole damn place goes crazy twice

  and it's once for the Devil and it's once for Christ

  but the [C]Boss don't like these dizzy heights

  we're busted in the blinding lights

  of [G]CLOSING TIME

  The [C]whole damn place goes crazy twice

  and it's once for the Devil and it's once for Christ

  but the [G]Boss don't like these [B7]dizzy heights

  we're [Em]busted in the [C]blinding lights

  (busted in the blinding lights)

  busted in the blinding lights

  of [G]CLOSING TIME, [D]CLOSING TIME

  

  Oh, the [G]women tear their blouses off

  and the men they dance on the polka dots, it's [D]CLOSING TIME

  And it's [G]partner found, and it's partner lost

  and it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops

  it's [D]CLOSING TIME

  I [G]swear it happned just like this:

  A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss, it's [D]CLOSING TIME

  The [G]gates of love they budged an inch

  I can't say much has happned since but [D]CLOSING TIME

  I [G]loved you when our love was blessed

  I love you now, there's nothing left but [D]CLOSING TIME

  And I [G]missed you since our place gor wrecked

  by the winds of change and the weeds of sex, it's [D]CLOSING TIME

   


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 Closingtime, de Leonard cohen 

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