ANTHEM (L. Cohen)
from Columbia Record's album THE FUTURE by LEONARD COHEN (CK 53226)

Transcribed by Clay Boutilier 07/27/95

NOTES:
* capo instrument at 1st fret
* all verses similar to 1st verse in chord structure

Introduction:  Am    /G

CC Piano Chord 

The birds they sang

at the break of day

GG Piano Chord 

Start again

CC Piano Chord 
    C7C7 Piano Chord 

I heard them say

E7E7 Piano Chord 

Don't dwell on what

AmAm Piano Chord 

has passed away

GG Piano Chord 
       Gsus4Gsus4 Piano Chord 
     G5G5 Piano Chord 
  G7G7 Piano Chord 
  GG Piano Chord 

or what is yet to be.

The wars they will
be fought again
The holy dove
be caught again
bought and sold
and bought again
the dove is never free.

[chorus]:
FF Piano Chord 
          BbBb Piano Chord 
        FF Piano Chord 

Ring the bells that still can ring.

BbBb Piano Chord 
           FF Piano Chord 

Forget your perfect offering.

CC Piano Chord 
        BbBb Piano Chord 
        FF Piano Chord 

There is a crack, a crack, in everything.

DmDm Piano Chord 
                GG Piano Chord 
    Gsus4Gsus4 Piano Chord 
   GG Piano Chord 

That's how the light gets in.

We asked for signs
the signs were sent:
the birth betrayed
the marriage spent
the widowhood
of every government -
signs for all to see.

Can't run no more
with the lawless crowd
while the killers in high places
say their prayers out loud.
But they've summed up
a thundercloud
and they're going to hear from me.

[chorus]

You can add up the parts
but you won't have the sum
You can strike up the march,
there is no drum
Every heart
to love will come
but like a refugee.

[chorus]

[chorus]

that's how the light gets in
that's how the light gets in

[instrumental verse twice and fade]