{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1473226,"song":"The Traitor","artist":"Leonard Cohen","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1473226-the-traitor-chords-by-leonard-cohen/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1473226?type=chord","rating":4.69591,"votes":41,"content":"[tab][ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNow the Swan it floated on the English river[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAh the Rose of High Romance it opened wide[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]                     [ch]F[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nA sun tanned woman yearned me through the summer[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nand the judges watched us from the other side[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI told my mother Mother I must leave you[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\npreserve my room but do not shed a tear[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShould rumour of a shabby ending reach you[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nit was half my fault and half the atmosphere[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut the Rose I sickened with a scarlet fever[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nand the Swan I tempted with a sense of shame[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShe said at last I was her finest lover[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nand if she withered I would be to blame[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe judges said you missed it by a fraction[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nrise up and brace your troops for the attack[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAh the dreamers ride against the men of action[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOh see the men of action falling back[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut I lingered on her thighs a fatal moment[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI kissed her lips as though I thirsted still[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMy falsity had stung me like a hornet[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe poison sank and it paralysed my will[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI could not move to warn all the younger soldiers[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nthat they had been deserted from above[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]E[/ch]                 [ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo on battlefields from here to Barcelona[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI'm listed with the enemies of love[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd long ago she said I must be leaving,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAh but keep my body here to lie upon[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nYou can move it up and down and when I'm sleeping[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nRun some wire through that Rose and wind the Swan[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo daily I renew my idle duty[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI touch her here and there, I know my place[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]                     [ch]F[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI kiss her open mouth and I praise her beauty[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nand people call me traitor to my face 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