Chelsea Hotel No 2 ukulele

Chelsea Hotel No 2

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Artist: Gregory Alan Isakov
Song: Chelsea Hotel No. 2
Originally By: Leonard Cohen
Tabbed By: Jo Lefebure

Chords used:

    C   Cmaj9   F    G    Am
e|--x-----x-----0----3-----0--|
b|--1-----1-----1----3-----1--|
g|--0-----0-----2----0-----2--|
d|--2-----0-----3----0-----2--|
a|--3-----2-----3----2-----0--|
e|--3-----x-----1----3-----x--|


C Cmaj9 F C

    C          Cmaj9         F         C
I remember you well from the Chelsea Hotel,
         C                       F
you were talking so brave and so sweet,
C         Cmaj9       F      C
giving me head on the unmade bed,
          C                      G
while the limousines wait in the street.


Am                         F
Those were the reasons and that was New York,
        C               Cmaj9         Am
we were running for the money and the flesh.
    F                            C
And that was called love for the workers in song
         F                          G
probably still is for those of them left.


       F             C       
Ah but you got away, didn't you babe,
    C                Cmaj9       Am
you just turned your back on the crowd,
F                     C
you got away, I never once heard you say,
  F           Am
I need you, I don't need you,
  F           C               Cmaj9
I need you, I don't need you
    F           G       Am
and all of that jiving around.


    C          Cmaj9         F         C
I remember you well from the Chelsea Hotel
         C                        F
you were famous, your heart was a legend.
    C        Cmaj9       F               C          
You told me again you preferred handsome men
        C                      G
but for me you would make an exception.


    Am                          F
And clenching your fist for the ones like us
          C              Cmaj9      Am
who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,
F                              C
you fixed yourself, you said, "Well never mind,
       F                    G
we are ugly but we have the music."


       F             C       
Ah but you got away, didn't you babe,
    C                Cmaj9       Am
you just turned your back on the crowd,
F                     C
you got away, I never once heard you say,
  F           Am
I need you, I don't need you,
  F           C               Cmaj9
I need you, I don't need you
    F           G       Am
and all of that jiving around.


        C          Cmaj9       F             C
I don't mean to confess that I loved you the best,
        C                         F
I can't keep track of each fallen robin.
    C          Cmaj9         F         C
I remember you well from the Chelsea Hotel,
       C                                   G
that's all, I don't even think of you that often.

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