Chords for Leonard Cohen Chelsea Hotel #2 Live

[D] _ _ _ _ _
A thousand [E] years [B] ago I lived at this _ [E] hotel in New York [G] City. _
I [A] _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ was a frequent rider of the elevator.
_ [B] _ _
_ [G] _ _ I would [D#] continually leave my [C#] room and [A] come back. _ _
_ [D] _ I was an expert on [C] the buttons [C#] of that elevator.
[F#] _ _ [B] _
_ _ One of the few technologies [E] I really ever [A] mastered. _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ [Bm] _
[A] The _ _ door opened.
_ [B] I walked in. _
Put my finger right on the button.
[A] _
_ _ _ No hesitation.
[Bm] _
_ _ [A] Great sense of mastery in those days.
_ _ _ [B] _
[Bm] _ Late _ [C] [G] in the morning.
_ _ [D#] [A] Early in the evening.
_ I noticed [C] a young woman in that [B] elevator.
_ _ _ She was riding it with as [G#] much delight as I [G] was. _
_ _ [A] Even though she commanded huge audiences.
_ _ _ [G]
Riding that elevator was the only [C#] thing [G] she really [B] knew how to do. _ _ _ _
[D#] Finally I [G] gathered my courage. _
I said to [A] her, _ _ _
Are you looking for someone?
_ [B] _
_ _ _ She said, [D] Yes.
_ I'm looking for Chris [A] Christopherson. _ _ _
I _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ said, Little lady.
[G] _
You're in [Dm] luck.
I'm Chris Christopherson.
[A] _ _ _ _ _
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Those were [G#m] generous times.
_ [Bm]
Even _ _ [G] _ _ _
though she [Cm] knew [A] that I was somewhat shorter than Chris Christopherson.
_ She never [B] let on.
_ [Bm] _ _ _
_ [G#] Great generosity [D] prevailed _ [C#] in those [A] doomed decades.
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[D] _ Anyhow, [N] _ _
I wrote this song for Janis Joplin at the Chelsea Hotel.
_ [D] _ _ _
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[G] In the Chelsea Hotel. _ _
You [D] were talking [F] so [A] brave [B] and so [C#] [Bm] sweet.
_ _ [D] Not giving [A] me head [G] on the unmade [D] bed.
_ [G] While the _ limousine [A] waited in the street.
_ _ _ [B] And those [Bm] were the reasons [G] and that was New York.
[D] We were running [C#] for the money.
_ [B] _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ [G] That was called love.
_ [D] For the workers in song [G] probably still is.
_ For [A] those of them left.
_ _ [G] But you got away, _ _ [D] didn't you baby?
_ _ _ I just [E] threw it all.
_ [Bm] _ _ _
_ _ [G] You got away I never once [D] heard you say.
I [G] need you.
I don't [D] need you.
_ [G] I need you.
I [D] don't need _ you.
[G] And all _ jiving [B] around.
[Bm] _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ Now [A#] remember [F]
you [A] were in [D] the Chelsea Hotel.
_ You were [Am] famous, your heart [B] was a legend.
[Bm] _
_ _ [F] [D] Now you told me once [A] again you [G] preferred handsome [D] men.
_ [G] But for me _ [D] you'd make [A] an exception. _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ Clenching your fist [G] for the ones like us.
Who [D] are oppressed [C#] by the figures of beauty.
[Bm] _ _
You [G] fixed yourself. _
[D] You said well never mind. _
[G] We are ugly but _ _ we [A] have music. _ _
_ And [G] then you got away, didn't _ [D] you baby?
_ You _ just [C#m] turn your back [G] on.
_ [Bm] _
_ _ _ [G] You got away I never [D] once heard you say.
[G] I need you.
_ I [D] don't need you.
_ [G] I need you.
I [D] don't need you.
_ And [G] all _ jiving [B] around.
[Bm] _ _
_ _ [A] I _ _
_ _ _ [F#] don't mean [A] to suggest that [G] I loved you the [D] best.
_ _ I don't keep track [A] of each [D#] fallen [C#]
[Bm] robin.
_ _ [D] I remember [F] you [A] well [G] in Chelsea [D] Hotel.
_ That's all my little darlin'.
_ _ I don't even think [A] of you that often.
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