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SUZANNE  (Leonard Cohen)
Jean-Sebastien Porlier [jsp@pedweb.com] 

 
   E 
Suzanne takes you down to her place near a river
         F#m
You can hear the boats go by you can spend the night beside her
          E
And you know that she's half crazy but that's why you want to be there
         G#m                                 A
And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China
           E                                F#m
and just when you mean to tell her that you have no love to give her
          E                                 F#m
Then she gets you on her wavelength and she lets the river answer
            E 
That you've always been her lover


        G#m                              A
And you want to travel with her and you want to travel blind
         E
and you know that she will trust you
           F#m                                 E   Esus4  
for you've touched her perfect body with your mind


     E
And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water 
        F#m
And he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden tower
     E
And when he knew for certain only drowning men could see him
         G#m                             A
he said, all men will be sailors then until the sea shall free them
    E                            F#m 
But he himself was broken long before the sky would open
    E                     F#m                             E 
forsaken almost human he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone


G#m                              A
And you want to travel with her and you want to travel blind
         E
and you know that she will trust you
           F#m                                 E   Esus4  
for you've touched her perfect body with your mind


       E
Now Suzanne takes your hand and she leads you to the river
        F#m
she is wearing rags and feathers from Salvation Army counters
         E
And the sun pours down like honey on our lady of the harbour
         G#m                               A
And she shows you where to look among the garbage and the flowers
           E                               F#m
There are heroes in the seaweed there are children in the morning
           E                                F#m
They are leaning out for love and they will lean that way forever
         E
While Suzanne holds the mirror


G#m                              A
And you want to travel with her and you want to travel blind
         E
and you know that she will trust you
           F#m                                 E   Esus4  
for you've touched her perfect body with your mind