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Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1806630,"song":"Stories Of The Street","artist":"Leonard Cohen","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1806630-stories-of-the-street-chords-by-leonard-cohen/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1806630?type=chord","rating":4.79757,"votes":77,"content":"TITLE: Stories of the Street\r\nARTIST: Leonard Cohen\r\nALBUM: Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)\r\n\r\nIntro: [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]Em7[/ch]           [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThe stories of the street are mine, the Spanish voices laugh[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]Em7[/ch]                 [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThe Cadillacs go creeping now through the night and the poison gas[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]F#[/ch]     [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAnd I lean from my window sill in this old hotel I chose[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]       [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYes one hand on my suicide, one hand on the rose[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]Em7[/ch]            [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nI know you've heard it's over now and war must surely come[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]Em[/ch]             [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThe cities they are broke in half and the middle men are gone[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]F#[/ch]     [ch]B[/ch]\r\nBut let me ask you one more time, o children of the dusk[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAll these hunters who are shrieking now oh do they speak for us?[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]Em7[/ch]    [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd where do all these highways go, now that we are free?[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]Em7[/ch]            [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nWhy are the armies marching still that were coming home to me?[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]F#[/ch]     [ch]B[/ch]\r\nO lady with your legs so fine, o stranger at your wheel[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]                   [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYou are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]Em7[/ch]              [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThe age of lust is giving birth, and both the parents ask[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Em7[/ch]                [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThe nurse to tell them fairy tales on both sides of the glass[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]F#[/ch]     [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAnd now the infant with his cord is hauled in like a kite[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]           [ch]E[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd one eye filled with blueprints, one eye filled with night[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Em7[/ch]               [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nO come with me my little one, we will find that farm[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Em7[/ch]                  [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd grow us grass and apples there and keep all the animals warm[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]F#[/ch]    [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAnd if by chance I wake at night and I ask you who I am[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]E[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nO take me to the slaughterhouse, I will wait there with the lamb[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]Em7[/ch]             [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nWith one hand on the hexagram and one hand on the girl[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]Em7[/ch]              [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nI balance on a wishing well that all men call the world[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]F#[/ch]         [ch]B[/ch]\r\nWe are so small between the stars, so large against the sky[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd lost among the subway crowds I try to catch your eye[/tab]","plain_text":"TITLE: Stories of the Street\nARTIST: Leonard Cohen\nALBUM: Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)\n\nIntro: 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