Live Songs:

Queen Victoria

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