Anthem

ANTHEM (L. Cohen)

from Columbia Record's album THE FUTURE by LEONARD COHEN (CK 53226)

Transcribed by Clay Boutilier 07/27/95

URL: http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~cjboutil

NOTES:

* capo instrument at 1st fret

* all verses similar to 1st verse in chord structure

Introduction: Am /G

C

The birds they sang

at the break of day

G

Start again

C C7

I heard them say

E7

Don't dwell on what

Am

has passed away

G Gsus4 G5 G7 G

or what is yet to be.

The wars they will

be fought again

The holy dove

be caught again

bought and sold

and bought again

the dove is never free.

[chorus]

:

F Bb F

Ring the bells that still can ring.

Bb F

Forget your perfect offering.

C Bb F

There is a crack, a crack, in everything.

Dm G Gsus4 G

That's how the light gets in.

We asked for signs

the signs were sent:

the birth betrayed

the marriage spent

the widowhood

of every government -

signs for all to see.

Can't run no more

with the lawless crowd

while the killers in high places

say their prayers out loud.

But they've summed up

a thundercloud

and they're going to hear from me.

[chorus]

You can add up the parts

but you won't have the sum

You can strike up the march,

there is no drum

Every heart

to love will come

but like a refugee.

[chorus]

[chorus]

that's how the light gets in

that's how the light gets in

[instrumental verse twice and fade]