Jennifer Warnes, First We Take Manhattan (1987)
Key: :[Am] (w: Leonard Cohen)
VERSE 1:
They
[Dm] sentenced me to twenty years of
[Am] boredom
For
[Dm] trying to change the system from
[Am] within
I'm
[Dm] coming now I'm coming to re-
[Am]-ward them
[G] First we take Man-
[F]-hattan,
[E] then we take Ber-
[Am]-lin
VERSE 2:
I'm
[Dm] guided by a signal in the
[Am] heavens
I'm
[Dm] guided by the birthmark on my
[Am] skin
I'm
[Dm] guided by the beauty of our
[Am] weapons
[G] First we take Man-
[F]-hattan,
[E] then we take Ber-
[Am]-lin
BRIDGE:
I'd
[C] really like to live beside you
[G] baby
[F] I love your
[C] body and your spirit and your
[Am] clothes
But you
[Dm] see that line there moving through the
[Am] station
I
[G] told you I
[F] told you I
[E] told you I was one of
[Am] those
INSTRUMENTAL:
[Dm] [Dm] [Am] [Am] //
[G] [F] [E] [Am]
VERSE 3:
[Dm] I don't like your fashion business
[Am] Mister
[Dm] I don't like these drugs that keep you
[Am] thin
[Dm] I don't like what happened to your
[Am] sister
[G] First we take Man-
[F]-hattan,
[E] then we take Ber-
[Am]-lin
OUTRO:
Then we take Ber-
[Am]-lin
Then we take Ber-
[Am]-lin
Then we take Ber-
[Am]-lin