Bird on the Wire
Original Written and Performed by Leonard Cohen
This Version
Jimmy Barnes and Troy Cassar Daley
From the Jimmy Barnes album: Double Happiness 
Tabbed by magga1976
Capo 5th Fret

             
Like a bird on

             
 a wire, like 

             
a drunk in a m

           
idnight choir
             
I have tried i

             
n my way to be

     
 free
             
Like a fish on

             
 a hook, like 

             
a knight from 

              
some old-fashi

     
oned book
             
I have saved a

             
ll my ribbons 

     
for thee

             
If I, if I hav

            
e been unkind
            
I hope that yo

              
u can let it g

    
o by
             
If I, if I hav

             
e been untrue,
            
I hope you kno

              
w it was never

       
 to you.

             
Like a baby st

             
illborn, like 

             
a beast with h

   
is horn
             
I have torn ev

             
eryone who rea

              
ched out for m


e.
             
But I swear by

             
 this song and

             
 by all that I

            
 have done wro

ng
             
I will make it

             
 all up to the


e.

             
I saw a young 

              
man leaning on

              
 his wooden cr

   
utch
            
He called out 

              
to me, "Don’t 

            
ask for so muc

h."
             
And a young wo

              
man leaning in

              
 her darkened 

    
door,
            
She cried out 

              
to me, "Why no

            
t ask for more

?"

             
Like a bird on

             
 a wire, like 

             
a drunk in a m

            
idnight choir
             
I have tried i

             
n my way to be

   
 free