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