Leonard Cohen – Boogie Street (Guitar)

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Chords

for the live version of the latest concerts, capo on the second fret [Intro]
            F#m               Bm7
(O Crown of Light, O Darkened One)

                      C#7
(I never thought we'd meet)

             F#m                   Bm7
(You kiss my lips, and then you're gone)

C#7                            F#m
(And I'm back on Boogie Street)
[Verse 1]
          F#m
A sip of wine, a cigarette

C#m7
And then it's time to go

D6
I tidied up the kitchenette

  Bm               C#7
I tuned the old banjo

    Dmaj7
I'm wanted at the traffic-jam

        F#m
They're saving me a seat

    E6
I'm what I am, and what I am

   Dmaj7            C#7
Is back on Boogie Street
[Verse 2]
          F#m
And oh my love, I still recall

C#m7
The pleasures that we knew

D6
The rivers and the waterfall

     Bm               C#7
Wherein I bathed with you

  Dmaj7
Bewildered by your beauty there

    F#m
I'd kneel to dry your feet

   E6
By such instructions you prepare

  Dmaj7            F#m
A man for Boogie Street
[Chorus]
            F#m             A6
(O Crown of Light, Crown of Light)

            D6                                Bm
(O Darkened One, Darkened One, Darkened One)

                      C#7
(I never thought we'd meet, never thought we'd meet)

              F#m           A6
(You kiss my lips, kiss my lips)

                D6
(And then it's done, then it's done, then it's done)

         Bm6   C#7            D        E   F#m
(And I'm back, back on Boogie Street)
[Verse 3]
            F#m
So come, my friends, be not afraid

C#m7
We are so lightly here

D6
It is in love that we are made

   Bm           C#7
In love we disappear

       Dmaj7
Though all the maps of blood and flesh

    F#m
Are posted on the door

        E6
There's no one who has told us yet

     Dmaj7            F#m
What Boogie Street is for
[Chorus]
            F#m             A6
(O Crown of Light, Crown of Light)

            D6                                Bm
(O Darkened One, Darkened One, Darkened One)

                      C#7
(I never thought we'd meet, never thought we'd meet)

             F#m           A6
(You kiss my lips, kiss my lips)

               D6
(And then it's done, then it's done, then it's done)

         Bm6   C#7            D        E   F#m
(And I'm back, back on Boogie Street)
[Outro]
          F#m
A sip of wine, a cigarette

C#m7
And then it's time to go

D6
I tidied up the kitchenette

  Bm               C#7
I tuned the old banjo
(Fadeout)
    Dmaj7
I'm wanted at the traffic-jam

        F#m
They're saving me a seat

    E6
I'm what I am, and what I am

   Dmaj7            C#7
Is back on Boogie Street...