Chords for Leonard Cohen - Closing Time (Live in London)

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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] Yeah, [G] we're drinking and we're dancing and the band is really happening [Em] and the Johnny
Walker wisdom running high. _
[Bm] And my very sweet companion, she's the angel of compassion.
[Em] She's rubbing half the world against her thigh.
And every [C] drinker, every dancer, there's a happy face to thank her.
[G] The fiddler [B] fiddles something [Em] so sublime.
[D] The women tear their blouses off, the men they dance in the [Bm] polka dot.
[C] It's partner found and it's partner lost.
Hell to pay when the fiddler [G] stops his closing rhyme. _ _ _ _
Yeah, [C] the women tear their blouses off and the men they dance in the polka [Bm] dot.
[G] It's partner found [B] and it's partner lost.
[Em] It's hell to [C] pay when the fiddler stops.
_ _ [G] It's closing time.
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Closing time.
_ _ [G] Oh, we're lonely, we're romantic and the cider laced with [Em] acid and the Holy Spirit's crying,
where's the beef?
And the [Bm]
moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant [Em] with a mighty expectation of relief.
_ [C] So we struggle and we stagger down the snakes and up the ladder [G] to the tower [B] where the blessed hours [Em] chime.
[D] And I swear it happened just like this, a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss, [C] the gates of love
they buzzed and it can't be much that's happened since [G] the closing rhyme.
Closing rhyme.
Closing rhyme.
Closing rhyme.
And [C] I swear it happened just like this, a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss, [G] the gates of [B] love
they buzzed and it [Em] can't be [C] much that's happened since _ _ _ the _ _
[G] closing _ rhyme. _ _ _
_ [D] Closing rhyme. _ _
[Em] I loved you for your beauty, that doesn't make a [Bm] fool of me, you were in it for your beauty too. _
[Em] And I loved you for your body, there's a voice that sounds like God [A] for me declaring,
declaring, _ declaring, [D] declaring that your body's really you.
And [C] I love you and our love was best and I love you now, [D] there's nothing left but [G] sorrow
and [B] a sense of [Em] overtime. _
[D] And I've missed you since the place got wrecked and I just don't care what happens next, [C] looks
like freedom but it feels like death, it's something in between, I guess [G] it's closing rhyme.
Closing rhyme.
Closing rhyme.
Closing rhyme.
And I've [C] missed you since the place got wrecked, by the winds of change [G] and the weeds of sex,
looks like freedom [B] but it feels like death, [Em] it's something in [C] between, I guess.
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Yeah _ _ _ [F#] [G] we're drinking and we're dancing but there's nothing really happening [Em] and the place is
dead as heaven on a Saturday night.
_ [Bm] And my very close companion gets me fumbling, gets me [Em] laughing, she's a hundred but she's
wearing something tight.
_ [C] And I lift my glass to the awful truth which you can't reveal to the ears of [G] you except
to [B] say it isn't [Em] worth a dime.
_ [D] And the whole damn place goes crazy, twice it's once for the devil and it's once for
[C] Christ, the boss don't like these dilly heights where busses get them blind and [G] nights are closing time.
Closing rhyme. Closing rhyme.
Closing rhyme.
Closing rhyme.
[C] Yeah the whole damn place goes crazy twice it's once for the devil and it's once for
[G] Christ but the boss don't [B] like these dilly heights [Em] where busses [C] get them blind and nights
are _ _ _ _ _ [G] closing _ time.
_ _ _ [D] Closing time.
Alright here we [G] go.
The women tear their blouses off and the men they dance and the whole good [D] God's it's closing _ time.
_ [G] And the partner found and partner lost, hell to pay when the bidder [D] stops it's _ _ closing time.
[G] And I swear it happened just like this and saw it cry, a hungry [D] goose it's _ closing time.
_ [G] And the gates of love they buzzed and it shut, can't say much has happened [D] since but _ _ closing time.
[G] And I loved you and our love was blessed and I loved you now there's nothing [D] left but _ _ closing time.
_ _ [G] Haven't seen since the place got wrecked by the winds of change and the winds of [D] sex it's closing time.
Closing [G] _
time.
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_ _ Closing time friends.
[G] Thanks so much.
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