![]() “Bird on the Wire,” regarded as one of Cohen’s signature songs (now a vocal standard, covered by everyone from Joe Cocker and Johnny Cash to the Neville Brothers and Willie Nelson, and even Joe Bonamassa), appears on Cohen’s Songs from a Room, released in 1969. ![]() This same approach is also used to fret F#m in “The Stranger Song,” a blazing Flamenco-inspired piece, also on Cohen’s debut album, which informs FIGURE 2. ![]() FIGURE 1 similarly depicts the tune’s repeating one-bar fingerpicking pattern to shift from E to G#m, keep the open E chord’s finger shape in place on the A and D strings and, instead of switching to a conventional G#m barre-chord shape, shift your middle and ring fingers up to the sixth fret, barre the index finger and use your pinkie to fret the note added on the G string on beat three of bar 2. After its appearance on Judy Collins’ 1966 album, In My Life, Cohen’s “Suzanne” served as the opening track on his 1967 debut, Songs of Leonard Cohen. ![]()
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