Bird On A Wire(Chords)

	        


th Fret 




Intro: C  

                 G            C                   F  
Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir 
       C           G         C     F  C  
I have tried in my way to be free 
                 G            C            C7            F 
Like a worm on a hook, like a knight in an old fashioned book 
       C            G           C     F  C  
I have saved all my ribbons for thee 
  
  
                           
And if I___ have been unkind 
  F                       G  
I hope you will let it go by 
       C  
And if I___, I have been untrue 
        F                     G  
Well, I hope you know, it was not to you 
  
  
       C         G            C              F  
Like a babe stillborn, like a beast with his horn 
       C         G                      C   F  C  
I have torn everyone who reached out to me 
                     G           C                    F  
But I swear, by this song and by all that I have done wrong 
            C        G                 C     F  C  
That I will make it, make it all up to thee 


Instrumental: C  G  C  F  C  G  C  F  C 
  
  
                                        
I saw a man leaning on his crutch 
        F                      G 
And he said to me, 'Why do you ask for so much?' 
            C    
But I saw a woman, she was leaning in a door 
        F                         G   G7  G 
And she cried out to me, 'Why not ask for more' 
  
   
       C         G            C                   F  
Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir 
       C           G         C     F  C  
I have tried in my way to be free 
                     G           C                    F  
But I swear, by this song and by all that I have done wrong 
            C        G                 C     F  C  
That I will make it, make it all up to thee
	        

Written by Leonard Cohen