Old Ideas:

Banjo

written by Leonard Cohen


        C
There's something that I'm watching
(C)
means a lot to me
        F
There's something that I'm watching
                C
means a lot to me
        G
It's a broken banjo bobbing
        F           C
on the dark infested sea
        G
It's a broken banjo bobbing
        F           C
on the dark infested sea

Don't know how it got there
maybe taken by the wave
Don't know how it got there
probably taken by the wave
Off of someone's shoulder
or out of someone's grave
Off of someone's shoulder
or out of someone's grave

(instrumental bridge)
E    Am    E    Am
F    G     A#   G

It's coming for me darling
no matter where I go
It's coming for me darling
no matter where I go
Its duty is to harm me
my duty is to know
Its duty is to harm me
my duty is to know

There's something that I'm watching
means a lot to me
There's something that I'm watching
means a lot to me
It's a broken banjo bobbing
on the dark infested sea
It's a broken banjo bobbing
on the dark infested sea