Leonard Cohen – Happens To The Heart (Guitar)

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Chord Voicings: Dm - XX0231 Bb - X13331 Bb/G - 3X333x A7 - X02020
[Intro]
         Dm                               Bb
e|------------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|------------3-------3-------3-------|---------3-------3-------3-------|
G|------------2-------2-------2-------|---2h3---3-------3-------3-------|
D|--------0-------0-------0-------0---|---------------------------------|
A|--0h3-------------------------------|---1---------1-------1-------0---|
E|------------------------------------|---------------------------------|

     Bb/G                             A7
e|--------------------------------|----------------------------------------|-------|
B|-------3--------3-------3-------|-------2-------2------------------------|-------|
G|-------3--------3-------3-------|-------0-------0----2---0h2p0-----------|-------|
D|--------------------------------|-------2-------2----------------3---2---|---0---|
A|--------------------------------|---0-------0----------------------------|-------|
E|---3--------3-------3-------3---|----------------------------------------|-------|
[Verse 1]
       Dm
I was always working steady

       Bb
But I never called it art

 Bb/G
I got my shit together

          A7
Meeting Christ and reading Marx

     Dm
It failed my little fire

          Bb
But it's bright, the dying spark

   Bb/G
Go tell the young messiah

 A7
What happens to the heart
[Interlude] ||: Dm | Bb | Bb/G | A7 || [Verse 2]
          Dm
There's a mist of summer kisses

         Bb
Where I tried to double-park

     Bb/G
The rivalry was vicious

     A7
The women were in charge

         Dm
It was nothing, it was business

        Bb
But it left an ugly mark

     Bb/G
I've come here to revisit

 A7
What happens to the heart
[Interlude] ||: Dm | Bb | Bb/G | A7 || [Verse 3]
        Dm
I was selling holy trinkets

        Bb
I was dressing kind of sharp

       Bb/G
Had a pussy in the kitchen

        A7
And a panther in the yard

         Dm
In the prison of the gifted

        Bb
I was friendly with the guards

      Bb/G
So I never had to witness

A7                   Bb
What happens to the heart
[Interlude] ||: Bb/G | F | A7 || [Verse 4]
   Dm
I should have seen it coming

      Bb
After all I knew the chart

        Bb/G
Just to look at her was trouble

         A7
It was trouble from the start

         Dm
Sure we played a stunning couple

       Bb
But I never liked the part

          Bb/G
It ain't pretty, it ain't subtle

 A7
What happens to the heart
[Interlude] ||: Dm | Bb | Bb/G | A7 || [Verse 5]
         Dm
Now the angel's got a fiddle

     Bb
The devil's got a harp

      Bb/G
Every soul is like a minnow

       A7
Every mind is like a shark

      Dm
I've broken every window

         Bb
But the house, the house is dark

  Bb/G
I care but very little

 A7
What happens to the heart
[Interlude] ||: Dm | Bb | Bb/G | A7 || [Verse 6]
         Dm
Then I studied with this beggar

        Bb
He was filthy, he was scarred

        Bb/G
By the claws of many women

         A7
He had failed to disregard

    Dm
No fable here no lesson

     Bb
No singing meadowlark

        Bb/G
Just a filthy beggar guessing

 A7                  Bb
What happens to the heart
[Interlude] ||: Bb/G | F | A7 || [Verse 7]
       Dm
I was always working steady

       Bb
But I never called it art

        Bb/G
It was just some old convention

          A7
Like the horse before the cart

  Dm
I had no trouble betting

        Bb
On the flood, against the ark

           Bb/G
You see, I knew about the ending

 A7          Dm
What happens to the heart
[Interlude] ||: Dm | Bb | Bb/G | A7 :|| [Outro]
       Dm
I was handy with a rifle

     Bb
My father's .303

   Bb/G
I fought for something final

         A7
Not the right to disagree