Democracy
Leonard Cohen
Original: http://youtu.be/DU-RuR-qO4Y
C5 = 0033, G4 = 0233, Ch = 0433,
C = 0003, F5 = 2013
Em = 0432, Fh = 5553
G = 0232, F = 2010,
Verse 1
It's C5 coming through a G4 hole in the Ch air
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from those C5 nights in tianG4anmen C5square
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It's C coming from the feel that F5 ain't exactly C real
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Or it's C5 real, but it G4 ain't exactly C there
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From the Em wars against disorder, from the Fh sirens night and day
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From the Em fires of the homeless from the Fh ashes of the gay
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Democracy G is coming F to the U. S. C A.
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Verse 2
Its C5 coming through a G4 crack in the Ch wall
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On a C5 visionary G4 flood of alco-C5-hol
From the C staggering account of the F5 sermon on the C mount
Which I C5 don't pretend to G4 understand at C all
It's Em coming from the silence on the Fh dock of the bay
From the Em brave, the bold, the battered Fh Heart of chevrolet
G Democracy is coming F to the U. S. C A.
Verse 3
It's C5 coming from the G4 sorrow on the Ch street
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The C5 holy places G4 where the races C5 meet
From C the homicidal bitchin' that goes F5 down in every C kitchen
To C5 determine who will G4 serve and who will C5 eat
From the Em wells of disappointment where the Fh women kneel to pray
For the Em grace of God in the desert here and the Fh desert far away
G Democracy is coming F to the U. S. C A.
Chorus
Sail G on, sail F on.
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O C mighty ship of state!
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To the G shores of need Past the F reefs of greed
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Through the C squalls of hate
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Sail G on, sail F on, sail C on…
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Verse 4
It's C5 coming to A-G4merica Ch First
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The C5 cradle of the G4 best and of the C5 worst
It's C here they got the range and the F5 machinery for C change
And its C5 here they got the G4 spiritual C5 thirst
Its Em here the family's broken and its Fh here the lonely say
That the Em heart has got to open in a Fh fundamental way
G Democracy is coming F to the U. S. C A.
Verse 5
It's C5 coming from the G4 women and the Ch men
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O C5 baby, we'll be G4 making love C5 again
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We'll be C going down so deep that the F5 rivers going to C weep
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And the C5 mountains going to G4 shout a-C5-men!
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Its Em coming like the tidal flood be-Fh-neath the lunar sway
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Im-Em-perial, mysterious in Fh amorous array
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G Democracy is coming F oh it's comin' boy to the U. S. C A.
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Chorus again
Sail G on, sail F on
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O C mighty ship of state!
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To the G shores of need past the F reefs of greed
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Through the C squalls of hate
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Sail G on, sail F on, sail C on…
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Verse 6
I'm senti-C5-mental, if you G4 know what I Ch mean
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I love the C5 country but G4 I cant stand the C5 scene
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And though I'm C neither left or right. I just F5 stay home C tonight
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Getting C5 lost in that G4 hopeless little C screen
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But Em I'm stubborn as those garbage bags That Fh time cannot decay
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I'm Em junk but I'm still holding up this Fh little wild bouquet
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G Democracy is coming F to the U. S. C A.
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