By The Rivers Dark Chords by Leonard Cohen

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[Fm] _ _ _ By _ _ _ _ the river's dock [Eb] I [Fm] wandered on I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ lived my life [Eb] _
[Fm] in Babylon _ _ _ _ _
_ And I did forget [Eb] my holy [Fm] song _ And _ _ _ _ I had no strain [Eb] _
[Fm] in Babylon
_ By _ _
[Ab] _ the [Bb] river's dock where I could [Fm] not see _ _ _ Who _
[Db] _ was waiting [Eb] there, [Ab] who was hunting [Fm] me
_ _ And _ _ _ _ it cut my lip [Eb] and it cut [Fm] my heart _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Db] So I could not drink [Eb] from [Fm] the river's dock
And _ _ _ it covered me [Cm] and I saw [Fm] within _ My _ _ _
[Db] _ _ lawless heart [Eb] and [Fm] my weeping brain
_ I _
[Ab] _ _ did not [Bb] know and I could [Fm] not see _ _ _ Who _
[Db] _ was waiting [Eb] there, who was hunting _ me
_ By _ _ _ the river's dock I passed _
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[Db] I belonged at last [Eb] _
[Fm] to Babylon _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Then he struck my heart [Eb] with a deadly [Fm] force _ And _ _ _
[Db] _ he said, this heart, [Eb] _
[Fm] it is not yours _ _ _
[Db] And he gave _ [Eb] the wind _ _
[Fm] _ my wedding ring _ [Db] And he _ _ circled us [Bbm] with _ _ [C] everything _ _ _
_ _ _ [Fm] By the river's dock [Eb] in a [Fm] wooded _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ [Db] dock I lived my life [Eb] _ [Fm] in Babylon _
_ _ _ _ _ Though I take my song [Cm] from a [Fm] withered limb _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ [Db] _ Both song and tree, [Eb] _ [Fm] they sing for Him
Be _ _ _ the truth unsaid [Cm] and the blessing [Fm] _ gone _
_ _ _ _ [Db] _ If I [F] forget _ [Eb] my [Fm] past _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ I did not [Bb] know and I could [Fm] not see _ _ Who _ [Db] _ was waiting [Eb] there, who was hunting [Fm] me
I have been to Babylon By [Ab] _ the [Bb] river's dock where it all [Fm] goes _ on
_ _ _ _ [Db] _ By the [Eb] river's dock in [Fm] Babylon I have been to Babylon _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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