Tin whistle tabs for: Chelsea Hotel #2

Categories: Folk

Author/Performer: Leonard Cohen

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I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,

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you were talking so brave and so sweet,

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giving me head on the unmade bed,

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while the limousines wait in the street.

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Those were the reasons and that was New York,

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we were running for the money and the flesh.

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And that was called love for the workers in song

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probably still is for those of them left.

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Ah but you got away, didn't you babe,

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you just turned your back on the crowd,

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you got away, I never once heard you say,

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I need you, I don't need you,

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I need you, I don't need you

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and all of that jiving around.

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I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel

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you were famous, your heart was a legend.

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You told me again you preferred handsome men

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but for me you would make an exception.

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And clenching your fist for the ones like us

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who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,

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you fixed yourself, you said, "Well never mind,

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we are ugly but we have the music."

And then you got away, didn't you babe...

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I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best,

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I can't keep track of each fallen robin.

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I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,