Leonard Cohen

Song Of Bernadette

Leonard Cohen


Tom: C

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There was a child Named Bernadette, I heard the story long ago
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She saw the queen of heaven once and kept the vision in her soul
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No one believed what she had seen,  no one believed what she had heard
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That there were sorrows to be healed and mercy, mercy in this world.


          F                         Am
So many hearts I find, Broke like yours and mine
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Torn by what we've done and can't undo.
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I just want to hold you, come on let me hold you
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Like Bernadette would do.

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We've been around we fall, we fly. We mostly fall we mostly run.
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And every now and then we try, to mend the damage that we've done.
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Tonight, tonight I cannot rest. I've got this joy here inside my breast.
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To think that I did not forget, that child, that song of Bernadette.


Repeat chorus

C               G        F              Am     F        G               C
I just want to hold you, come on let me hold you, like Bernadette would do.