Leonard Cohen – Suzanne (Ukulele)

Capo 2
Key
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Versions (3)

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Chords

Using capo II makes the ukulele chords a bit easier, but if you transpose up by 2 and skip the capo, it's also not too hard. After D chords you can try to put in some Dsus4 chords (2230). [Intro] D D [Verse 1]
  D                           D
Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river

        Em                            Em
You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her

        D                                      D
And you know that she's half-crazy, but that's why you wanna be there

        F#m                                  G
And she feeds you tea and oranges, that come all the way from China

         D                                   Em
And just when you mean to tell her, that you have no love to give her

         D                                   Em
Then she gets you on her wavelength, and she lets the river answer

            D                     D
That you've always been her lover

        F#m                              G
And you want to travel with her, and you want to travel blind

        D                                  Em
And you know she will trust you for you've touched her perfect body

          D  D
With your mi-i-ind
[Verse 2]
    D                          D
And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water

       Em                                  Em
And he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden tower

    D                              D
And when he knew for certain, only drowning men could see him

          F#m                            G
He said: "All men will be sailors then until the sea shall free them"

    D                            Em
But he himself was broken long before the sky would open

   D                       Em
Forsaken, almost human, he sank beneath your wisdom

       D     D
Like a stone

        F#m                              G
And you want to travel with him, and you want to travel blind

        D                                     Em
And you think maybe you'll trust him for he's touched your perfect body

          D  D
With your mi-i-ind
[Verse 3]
      D                              D
Now Suzanne takes your hand, and she leads you to the river

       Em                                Em
She is wearing rags and feathers from Salvation Army counter

        D                                D
And the sun pours down like honey on Our Lady of the Harbour

        F#m                               G
And she shows you where to look among the garbage and the flowers

          D                                Em
There are heroes in the seaweed, there are children in the morning

         D                                   Em
They are leaning out for love, and they will lean that way forever

        D                      D
While Suzanne holds the mirror

        F#m                              G
And you want to travel with her, and you want to travel blind

        D                                Em
And you know you can trust her for she's touched your perfect body

         D  D
With her mi-i-ind