Willie Nelson – Tower Of Song (Guitar)

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From the album "A Beautiful Time" (2022) Original song by Leonard Cohen [Intro] | G | G | G | G | [Verse 1]
        G                       G
Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey

  G                          G
I ache in the places where I used to play

        C              C                   G    G
And I'm crazy for love, but I'm not coming on

         D                    C                   G    G
I'm just paying my rent every day in the Tower of Song
[Verse 2]
  G                       G
I said to Hank Williams, "How lonely does it get?"

G                        G
 Hank Williams hasn't me answered yet

C                        C          G    G
 But I hear him coughing, all night long

        D                      C                G    G
About a hundred floors above me in the Tower of Song
[Verse 3]
      G                 G
I was born like this, I had no choice

      G                       G
I was born with the gift of a golden voice

    C                  C                 G    G
And twenty-seven angels from the Great Beyond

     D                           C                    G    G
They tied me to this table right here in the Tower of Song
[Instrumental] | G | G | G | G | | C | C | G | G | | D | C7 | G | G | [Verse 4]
            G                             G
So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll

G                                    G
 I'm very sorry, baby, it don't look like me at all

C                           C                    G    G
 I'm standing by the window, where the light is strong

               D                    C                    G    G
And they don't let a woman kill you, not in the Tower of Song
[Verse 5]
            G                                  G
Now you can say that I've grown bitter, but of this you may be sure

    G                                   G
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor

              C                       C             G    G
And there's a mighty judgement coming, but I may be wrong

             D                     C                G    G
You see, you hear them funny voices in the Tower of Song
[Bridge]
Em                         D
 I see you standing on the other side

Em                          D
 I don't know how the river got so wide

C                 C         G    G
 I loved you baby, way back when

    Em                                  D
And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed

      Em                    D
But I feel so close to everything that we lost

C                        C                 D    D
 We'll never, we'll never have to lose it again
[Verse 6]
      G                              G
Now I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back

        G                          G
They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track

    C                               C               G    G
But you'll be hearing from me, baby, long after I'm gone

         D                              C                      G    G
I'll be speaking to you sweetly from my window in the Tower of Song
[Outro]
         G                       G
Yeah, my friends are gone and my hair is grey

  G                          G
I ache in the places where I used to play

        C              C                   G    G
And I'm crazy for love, but I'm not coming on

         D                    C                   G    G    G    G    G    G
I'm just paying my rent every day in the Tower of Song