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