Suzanne

by Leonard Cohen · posted by chibluesteve

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab

  3  3    3    3  -3 3 3   3    3   3   3  -3 3 
Suzanne takes you down to her place by the river 
 3   3   -3  -3   -3   -3 <-3 -3
You can hear the boats go by----
 3   -2   -3  -3   -3   4 <-3 -3  
You can spend the night forever-
-3  -3   -3   3    3     3   -3 3  
And you know that she's half crazy 
 3    3     3   3   3   3  -3   3
And that's why you want to be there
 3   3   -4   -4  -4  -4  4  4 -4 
And she feeds you tea and oranges
 -3   -4   4   4   4   4   -5 4
That came all the way from China
 4   3    3    3   3   3   -3   3
And just when you want to tell her
 3    3   3   3   3   3   -3   3 
That you have no love to give her
 3   -3  -3  -3 -3   <-3  -3      
She gets you on her wavelength 
-3   -3  -3  -3 4  <-3 -3 
And lets the river answer
 3     -2   -3  3   3    3  -3 3 
That you've always been her lover 
 3   3   -4  -4 -4 -4   4   -4
And you want to travel with her
-4  -4   4   4   4  4  -5  4 
And you want to travel blind
 4   4    3    3   3  3  -3    3  
And you think you maybe trust her 
  3    3      -2     -2  -2  -2  3 -2
Cause she's touched your perfect body
 -2  -2   3    
with her mind. 

 3   3 3   3  3  -3 3
And Jesus was a sailor
 3   3    3    3 3   3  -3 3 
When he walked upon the water
 3   3  -3  -3  -3   -3   <-3 -3 
And he spent a long time watching 
 3  -2 -3 -3   -3 4  <-3 -3
From a lonely wooden tower-
-3   -3  3   3    3   -3  3
And when he knew for certain 
 3     3  3    3    3   -3   3
Only drowning men could see him 
 3   3   -4   -4  -4   -4  4  -4
He said "All men shall be sailors
 -3  -4 4   4   4    4    -5   4 
then until the sea shall free them"
 4  3   3  3    3   -3 3
But he himself was broken 
 3    3  3   3   3    3   -3 3
Long before the sky would open 
 3 -3 -3  -3 -3  <-3 -3
Forsaken, almost human-
3   -2   -3 -3   -3   4 <-3  3  -2   3
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone 
 3   3   -4  -4 -4 -4   4   -4
And you want to travel with him
-4  -4   4   4   4  4  -5  4 
And you want to travel blind
 4   4    3    3   3  3  -3    3  
And you think you maybe trust him 
 3   3     -2     -2  -2  -2  3 -2
For he's touched your perfect body
 -2  -2   3    
with his mind.
 
  3  3    3    3  -3 3 3   3    3   3   3  -3 3 
Suzanne takes you down to her place by the river 
 3   3   -3  -3   -3   -3 <-3 -3
You can hear the boats go by----
 3   -2   -3  -3   -3   4 <-3 -3  
You can spend the night forever-
-3  -3   -3   3    3     3   -3 3
And the sun pours down like honey 
3   3  3  3 3   3   -3  3
On our lady of the harbour 
 3   3   -4   -4   -4   -4  4 
And she shows you where to look
-4 3 -4   4  4    4   4   -5  4
Amid the garbage and the flowers 
  4    4   3  3  3   3   -3  3
There are heroes in the seaweed 
  3    3    3   3  3   3   -3  3
There are children in the morning 
 3   -3   -3 -3  -3  -3   <-3  
They are leaning out for love 
-3   3    -2   -3   -3  -3  4 <-3 -3
And they will lean that way forever-
 -2    -3  3    3    3  -3  3
While Suzanne holds the mirror 
 3   3   -4  -4 -4 -4   4   -4
And you want to travel with her
-4  -4   4   4   4  4  -5  4 
And you want to travel blind
 4   4    3    3  3   -3    3  
And you think  maybe trust her 
 3    3      -2     -2  -2 -2  3 -2
For you've touched her perfect body
 -2  -2   3    
with her mind.

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