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Bruce Cockburn : Misc

  1. After The Rain
    1
  2. All The Diamonds
  3. Celestial Horses
  4. If I Had A Rocket Launcher
  5. Last Night Of The World
  6. Lovers In A Dangerous Time
  7. Mighty Trucks Of Midnight
  8. Pacing The Cage
  9. They Call It Democracy
  10. Wondering Where The Lions Are
  11. World Of Wonders

After The Rain

Tuning: EADF#BE
Dmaj7/a x00020
F#maj7/a x04320
E6/9 442000
Em9/f# 220000
E 0222xx
Dmaj7/a
E6/9
After the rain in the streets light flows like blood
Em9/f#
I can just taste salt on the humid wind
Dmaj7/a
Here comes that gasoline
E6/9
Em9/f#
Spreading hungry rainbow over shiny black tar
Em9/f#
I'm blown like smoke and blind as wind
E
Except for when your love breaks in Maybe to those who love is given sight To pierce the wall of seeming night And know it pure beyond all imagining Engine throb street cruise light bullet car flash Hollow beauty night gleam oily river tension glass Ultraflame! Glittering dust falling in slow motion Clouds tumbling one over another into apparent emptiness It's like a big fist breaking down my door I never felt such a love before Maybe to those who love it's given to hear Music too high for the human ear And clear as hydrogen to go singing

All The Diamonds

G6/b x20000
Fsus2 1x3010
Fsus2 x03011
G9 3x0201
C
Csus4
x2
C
Csus2
C
Am
G6/b
C
All the diamonds in this world
Fmaj7
Fsus2
That mean anything to me
Am
G
Fsus2
Am7
D/f#
Are conjured up by wind and sunlight
C/g
G
Sparkling on the sea
G
Am
G
Am
C
Csus2
C
Am
G6/b
C
I ran aground in a harbour town
Fmaj7
Fsus2
Lost the taste for being free
Am
G
Fsus2
Am7
D/f#
Thank God, He sent some gull-chased ship
C/g
G
To carry me to sea
G
Am
G
Am
Dm
G9
Am
*
Am7
Two thousand years, and half a world away
Dm
G9
Am
*
Am7
Dying trees still will grow greener when you pray
C
Csus2
C
Am
G6/b
C
Silver scales flash bright and fade
Fmaj7
Fsus2
In reeds along the shore
Am
G
Fsus2
Am7
D/f#
Like a pearl in a sea of liquid jade
C/g
G
His ship comes shining
Am
G
Fsus2
G6/b
D/f#
Like a crystal swan in a sky of suns
C/g
G
His ship comes shining
G
Am
G
Am

Celestial Horses

Here comes those silver celestial horses Rays of the moon in the mountain air I'm steeped in the steam of the last wild hot spring Maybe I'm melting but I don't care There's darkness in the canyon But the Light comes pounding through For me and for you Tomorrow may be a hissing blowtorch Maybe a silken sky shaken by the wind The world's in the wake of those whispering horses But there's always a pillar of cloud on the valley's rim There's darkness in the canyon But the Light comes pounding through For me and for you Still river full of the depths of the candles Burning for the free ones riding on the other shore Even at the heart of these breathing shadows You can feel us gathering at the door There's darkness in the canyon But the Light comes pounding through For me and for you For me and for you

If I Had A Rocket Launcher

Em 079900 Cmaj7 879000 or 870000
D/e 077700 Cmaj7/a 505500
D/b 757700
Em
D/e
Cmaj7
Em
D/e
Cmaj7
Here comes the helicopter, second time today
Em
D
Cmaj7
Em
D
Cmaj7
Everybody scatters and hopes it goes away
Em
D
Cmaj7
Em
D
Cmaj7
How many kids they've murdered? Only God can say
Cmaj7/a
D/b
If I had a rocket launcher If I had a rocket launcher If I had a rocket launcher I'd make somebody pay
Em
D/e
Cmaj7
x2
I don't believe in guarded borders and I don't believe in hate I don't believe in generals or their stinking torture states And when I talk with the survivors of things too sickening to relate If I had a rocket launcher... I would retaliate On the Rio Lacuntun one hundred thousand wait To fall down from starvation or some less humane fate Cry for Guatemala with a corpse in every gate If I had a rocket launcher... I would not hesitate I want to raise every voice, at least I've got to try Every time I think about it water rises to my eyes Situation desperate echoes of the victim's cry If I had a rocket launcher... Some son-of-a-bitch would die

Last Night Of The World

Bass Riff: |----------0-------|
|--------0---------|
|-0h2h3------------|
|-------------3----|
Cadd9
G
x4
Cadd9
G
I'm sipping Flor De Cana and lime juice, it's 3 AM
Cadd9
G
Blow a fruit fly off the rim of my glass
Cadd9
G
The radio's playing Superchunk and the friends of Dean Martinez
D
Dsus4
D
Cadd9
G
Midnight it was bike tires whacking the pot holes Milling humans' shivering energy glow Fusing the space between them with bar-throb bass and laughter
Em7
Cadd9*
G
If this were the last night of the world
Em7
Cadd9*
G
What would I do?
Em7
Cadd9*
G
What would I do that was different
Am7
D7sus4
G
Unless it was champagne with you?
Cadd9
G
I learned as a child not to trust in my body I've carried that burden through my life But there's a day when we all have to be pried loose If this were the last night of the world What would I do? What would I do that was different Unless it was champagne with you? I've seen the flame of hope among the hopeless And that was truly the biggest heartbreak of all That was the straw that broke me open If this were the last night of the world What would I do? What would I do that was different Unless it was champagne with you?

Lovers In A Dangerous Time

Bsus4 x24400
C#m7 x46600
Asus2 x02200
 |
Bsus4
|
C#m7
|
Asus2
| ... Don't the hours grow shorter as the days go by? You never get to stop and open your eyes One day you're waiting for the sky to fall And next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all When you're lovers in a dangerous time Lovers in a dangerous time These fragile bodies of touch and taste This vibrant skin, this hair like lace Spirits open to the thrust of grace Never a breath you can afford to waste When you're lovers in a dangerous time Lovers in a dangerous time When you're lovers in a dangerous time Lovers in a dangerous time When you're lovers in a dangerous time Sometimes you're made to feel as if your love's a crime But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight You gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight When you're lovers in a dangerous time Lovers in a dangerous time When you're lovers in a dangerous time Lovers in a dangerous time

Mighty Trucks Of Midnight

Used to have a town but the factory moved away Down to Mexico where they work for hardly any pay Used to have a country but they sold it down the river Like a repossessed farm auctioned off to the highest bidder Mighty trucks of midnight Moving on Moving on Wave a flag, wave the bible, wave your sex or your business degree Whatever you want, but don't wave that thing at me The tide of love can leave your prizes scattered But when you get to the bottom it's the only thing that matters Mighty trucks of midnight Moving on Moving on I believe it's a sin to try and make things last forever Everything that exists in time runs out of time some day Got to let go of the things that keep you tethered Take your place with grace and then be on your way

Pacing The Cage

Capo:
III
G/b x20033 Am x07555
Fsus2/a x03011 Am7 x07577
G 3x0033
C
G/b
Fsus2/a
|-0---------0------|-3---------3------|-1---------1------|
|-1---------1------|-3---------3------|-1---------1------| x2
|-------0-------0--|-------0-------0--|-------0-------0--|
|-----2-------2----|-----0-------0----|-----3-------3----|
|-3-------3--------|-2-------2--------|-0-------0--------|
|------------------|------------------|------------------|
C
G/b
Fsus2/a
Sunset is an angel weeping
C
G/b
Fsus2/a
Holding out a bloody sword
C
G/b
Fsus2/a
No matter how I squint I cannot
C
G/b
Fsus2/a
Make out what it's pointing toward
F
G
Sometimes you feel like you've lived too long
Am
Am7
Am
G(iii)
Days drip slowly on the page
F
/g
F
/g
You catch yourself pacing the cage I've proven who I am so many times The magnetic strips worn thin And each time I was someone else And everyone was taken in Powers chatter in high places Stir up eddies in the dust of rage Set me to pacing the cage I never knew what you all wanted So I gave you everything All that I could pillage All the spells that I could sing It's as if the thing were written In the constitution of the age Sooner or later you'll wind up pacing the cage
Solo
Sometimes the best map will not guide you You can't see what's round the bend Sometimes the road leads through dark places Sometimes the darkness is your friend Today these eyes scan bleached out land For the coming of the outbound stage Pacing the cage Pacing the cage

They Call It Democracy

|
D
|
Em
G
| ...
D
Padded with power here they come
Em
G
International loan sharks backed by the guns
D
Of market hungry military profiteers
Em
G
Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
D
Em
G
With the blood of the poor Who rob life of its quality Who render rage a necessity By turning countries into labour camps Modern slavers in drag as champions Of freedom Sinister cynical instrument Who makes the gun into a sacrament The only response to the deification Of tyranny by so-called developed nations' Idolatry of ideology North, south, east, west Kill the best and buy the rest It's just spend a buck to make a buck You don't really give a flying fuck About the people in misery IMF, dirty MF Takes away everything it can get Always making certain that there's one thing left Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt I see the paid-off local bottom feeders Passing themselves off as leaders Kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows And it's open for business like a cheap bordello And they call it democracy, and they call it democracy And they call it democracy, and they call it democracy You see the loaded eyes of the children too Trying to make the best of it, the way kids do One day you're going to rise from your habitual feast To find yourself staring down the throat of the beast They call the revolution IMF, dirty MF Takes away everything it can get Always making certain that there's one thing left Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt And they call it democracy And they call it democracy And they call it democracy

Wondering Where The Lions Are

Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)
Capo:
II
Verse
D
D
G6
G6
E|-----5-------5----|-----5-----5------|-0---------0------|-0---------0------|
B|-----7-------7----|-----7---5-7-p5---|-----0-----0------|-----0-----0------|
G|---7---7---7----7-|---7---7--------7-|---7---7--------7-|---7---7--------0-|
D|-----0-------0----|-----0--------0---|-----7-------7----|-----7-------7----|
A|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
D|-0-------0--------|-0-------0--------|-5-------5--------|-5-------5--------|
Chorus
Em7
Em7
Dadd9
Dadd9
E|-----3-------3----|-----3-------3----|-----0-------0----|-----0-------0----|
B|-----3-------3----|-----3-------3----|-----3-------3----|-----3-------3----|
G|---0---0---0----0-|---0---0---0----0-|---2---2---2----2-|---2---2---2----2-|
D|-----0-------0----|-----0-------0----|-----4-------4----|-----4-------4----|
A|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
D|-2-------2--------|-2-------2--------|-0-------0--------|--0------0--------|
D
D
G6
G6
x2
D
Sun's up, uh huh, looks OK
G6
The world survives into another day
D
And I'm thinking 'bout eternity
G6
D
G6
Some kinda ecstasy got a hold on me Had another dream about lions at the door They weren't half as frightening as they were before But I'm thinking 'bout eternity Some kinda ecstasy got a hold on me Walls windows trees, waves coming through You be in me and I'll be in you Together in eternity Some kinda ecstasy got a hold on me Up among the firs where it smells so sweet Or down in the valley where the river used to be I got my mind on eternity Some kinda ecstasy got a hold on me
Em7
And I'm wondering where the lions are
Dadd9
I'm wondering where the lions are
Em7
I'm wondering where the lions are
Dadd9
I'm wondering where the lions are
Em7
I'm wondering where the lions are, hmm-hmm
Dadd9
Em7
Dadd9
Wondering where the lions are, aah, aah Huge orange flying boat rises off a lake Thousand year-old petroglyphs doing a double take Pointing a finger at eternity I'm sitting in the middle of this ecstasy Young men marching, helmets shining in the sun Polished and precise like the brain behind the gun (should be!) They got me thinking 'bout eternity Some kinda ecstasy got a hold on me And I'm wondering where the lions are...
D
D
Freighters on the nod on the surface of the bay
G6
G6
D
One of these days they're gonna sail away
D
Gonna sail into eternity
G6
G6
D
D
G6
G6
Some kinda ecstasy got a hold on me And I'm wondering where the lions are...

World Of Wonders

Tuning: EADF#BE
Capo:
V
Bm x2003x Bm(add9) x2002x Gmaj7 3x0032
Bm(add9) 7x087A Bm* 7x0807 Asus2 x02300
Bm(b9) 7x0879 Bm(vii) 7x007x Bm9b5 7x0705
VERSE (and intro)
Bm
Bm(add9)
|--------------------------------|-------------------------------|
|-3---------3-----3---------3----|-3--------3-----3-------2-s-7--|
|-0-----0---0-----0-----0---0----|-0----0---0-----0-----0-0------|
|-----0-------0-------0-------0--|----0-------0-------0-------0--|
|-2-------2-------2-------2------|-2------2-------2-------2------|
|--------------------------------|-------------------------------|
Bm(vii)
|--------------------------------|-------------------------------|
|-7---------7-----7---------7----|-7--------7-----7---------7----|
|-0-----0---0-----0-----0---0----|-0----0---0-----0-----0---0----|
|-----0-------0-------0-------0--|----0-------0-------0-------0--|
|--------------------------------|-------------------------------|
|-7-------7-------7-------7------|-7------7-------7-------7------|
Repeat these four bars, |-10-----9-------7-------5------|
ending with this in bar 4: |-0------0-------0-------0------|
|------0---------------0--------|
|----0-------0-------0-------0--|
|-------------------------------|
|-7------7-------7-------5------|
CHORUS (play twice)
Gmaj7
|(0)-----------------------------|-2-----------------------------|
|-0-----------2-----------2---3--|-3-------3---2-----------3-----|
|-0-----0-----0-----0-----0------|-------0-5---3-----0-----2-----|
|-----0-------0-------0-------0--|-----0-------0-------0-------0-|
|--------------------------------|-------------------------------|
|-3-------3-------3-------3------|-3-------3-------3-------3-----|
Asus2
|-------------0-----------0------|--------------0----------------|
|-0-----------0-----------0------|----------0-------0-------0----|
|-3-----3-----------3-----------3|----------------------3--------|
|-----2-------2-------2-------2--|----0h2-----2-------2-------2--|
|-0-------0-------0-------0------|-0------0-------0-------0------|
|--------------------------------|-------------------------------|
 I stand on a bridge before the cavern of night Darkness alive with possibility Nose to this wind full of twinkling lights Trying to catch the scent of what's coming to be In this world of wonders World of wonders World of wonders World of wonders Somewhere a saxophone slides through changes Like a wet pipe dripping down my neck Gives me a chill, sounds like danger But I can't stop moving till I cross this sector Of this world of wonders... There's a rainbow shining in a bead of spittle Falling diamonds in rattling rain Light flexed on moving muscle I stand here dazzled with my heart in flames At this world of wonders...
BRIDGE (play twice, then into the final verse)
Bm(add9)
Bm(b9)
|-10--------10----10--------10---|-9--------9-----9---------9----|
|-7---------7-----7---------7----|-7--------7-----7---------7----|
|-8-----8-------8-------8-------8|-8----8-------8-------8-------8|
|-----0-------0-------0-------0--|----0-------0-------0-------0--|
|--------------------------------|-------------------------------|
|-7-------7-------7-------7------|-7------7-------7-------7------|
Bm*
Bm9b5
|-7---------7-----7---------7----|-5--------5-----5---------5----|
|-0---------0-----0---------0----|-0--------0-----0---------0----|
|-8-----8-------8-------8-------8|-7----7-------7-------7-------7|
|-----0-------0-------0-------0--|----0-------0-------0-------0--|
|--------------------------------|-------------------------------|
|-7-------7-------7-------7------|-7------7-------7-------7------|
 Moment of peace like brief arctic bloom Red gold ripple of the sun going down Line of black hills makes my bed Sky full of love pulled over my head In this world of wonders...
Repeat intro to fade