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:Would someone please post the words and chords to "Bird on a Wire"?  I believe
:it is by Leonard Cohen.  Thanks in advance.
:

Bird on the Wire by Leonard Cohen
(from the CD Songs from a Room)

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Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir
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I have tried in my way to be free
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Like a worm on a hook, like a knight from some old-fashioned book
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I have saved all my ribbons for thee
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If I, if I have been unkind
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I hope that you can just let it go by
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If I, if I have been untrue,
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I hope you know it was never to you.

Like a baby stillborn, like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me.
But I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee.
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch
He said to me, "You must not ask for so much."
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,
She cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"

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Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir
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I have tried in my way to be free