written by Leonard Cohen
Tuning: Bb Eb Ab Db F Bb (standard, three(!) full-steps down)
Chords: Am: x02210 F: 133211 E: 022100 E': 033200 G: 320003 C: x32010 E/b: x22100
Am
Queen Victoria,
F
My father and all his tobacco loved you
Am
I love you too in all your forms
F
The slim unlovely virgin floating among German beards
Am
The mean governess of the huge pink maps
F E' E
The solitary mourner of a prince
Am
Queen Victoria
F
I am cold and rainy
Am G
I am dirty as a glass roof in a train station
Am
I feel like an empty cast iron exhibition
F
I want ornaments on everything
E' E
Because my love, she gone with other boys
Am
Queen Victoria
F
Do you have a punishment under the white lace
Am F
Will you be short with her, make her read those little Bibles
C E/b
Will you spank her with a mechanical corset
Am F
I want her pure as power, I want her skin slightly musty with petticoats
E' E
Will you wash the easy bidet out of her head?
Am
Queen Victoria
F Am
I'm not much nourished by modern love
C G
Will you come into my life
F E'
With your sorrow and your black carriages
E
And your perfect memories
Am
Queen Victoria
F Am
The Twentieth Century belongs to you and me
C E/b Am
Let us be two severe giants not less lonely for our partnership
F E
Who discoloured test tubes in the halls of Science
C G
Who turned up unwelcome at every World's Fair
Am G
Heavy with proverbs and corrections
Am
Confusing the star-dazed tourists
F E
With our incomparable sense of loss