Bird on the Wire
by Leonard Cohen
🎸 Acoustic & Singer-Songwriter
Difficulty
★★☆☆☆
Tuning
Standard
Capo
None
Leonard Cohen's signature song of imperfect redemption. A gentle fingerpicking pattern in A major with simple chord changes that lets the poetry take center stage.
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A|-0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0----
E|--------------------------------------------------------------
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B|---3---3---3---3---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2
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