{"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":1716143,"song":"Suzanne","artist":"Leonard Cohen","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1716143-suzanne-chords-by-leonard-cohen/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1716143?type=chord","rating":5,"votes":247,"content":"[Verse]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nSuzanne takes you down, to her place near the river[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nYou can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd you know she's half-crazy, but that's why you want to be there[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G#m[/ch]                               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd she feeds you tea & oranges, that come all the way from China[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E[/ch]                                  [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nAnd just when you mean to tell her, that you have no love to give her[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E[/ch]                                [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nThen she gets you on her wavelength, and she lets the river answer[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThat you've always been her lover[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G#m[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd you want to travel with her, and you want to travel blind[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd you know that she will trust you,[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]F#m[/ch]                              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nFor you've touched her perfect body with your mind[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd Jesus was a sailor, when he walked upon the water[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nAnd he spent a long time watching, from his lonely wooden tower[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd when he knew for certain, only drowning men could see him[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G#m[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nhe said 'All men will be sailors then, until the sea shall free them'[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                            [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nBut he himself was broken, long before the sky would open[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                     [ch]F#m[/ch]                             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nForsaken, almost human, he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G#m[/ch]                              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd you want to travel with him, and you want to travel blind[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd you think maybe you'll trust him,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F#m[/ch]                                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nFor he's touched your perfect body, with his mind[Verse][/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nNow Suzanne takes your hand and she leads you to the river[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nShe is wearing rags and feathers, from Salvation Army counters[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd the sun pours down like honey, on our lady of the harbour[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G#m[/ch]                                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd she shows you where to look, among the garbage and the flowers[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E[/ch]                                [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nThere are heroes in the seaweed, there are children in the morning[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                                  [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nThey are leaning out for love, and they will lean that way forever[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWhile Suzanne holds the mirror[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G#m[/ch]                               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd you want to travel with her, and you want to travel blind[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd you know you can trust her,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F#m[/ch]                                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nFor she's touched your perfect body with her mind[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["E","F#m","G#m","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}