Biography:
Jimmy Barnes (b. 1956) is an Australian rock singer.
Barnes was born James Dixon Swan on the 28th April 1956 in Glasgow, Scotland, and moved to Australia with his family when he was six years old.
He first came to public attention as the lead singer with popular Australian pub-rock band Cold Chisel, which he joined in 1973 and with whom he recorded seven albums between 1978 and 1983. When the band split up in 1983 he launched a solo career almost immediately; his first album, Bodyswerve, entered the Australian charts at number one.
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Other songs:
- Because You Wanted It
- Bird On A Wire
- Heart Cries Alone
- Id Die To Be With You Tonight
- Im Still On Your Side
- Largs Pier Hotel
- Lay Down Your Guns
- Love Is Enough
- Lover Lover
- No Second Prize
- Ride The Night Away
- Simply The Best
- Still Got A Long Way To Go
- Stone Cold
- The Weight
- Too Much Aint Enough Love
- Waiting For The Heartache
- When Your Love Is Gone
- Without Your Love
- Working Class Man
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Bird on the Wire
Original Written and Performed by Leonard Cohen
This Version
Jimmy Barnes and Troy Cassar Daley
From the Jimmy Barnes album: Double Happiness
Tabbed by magga1976
Capo 5th Fret
G D G C
Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir
G D G
I have tried in my way to be free
G D G C
Like a fish on a hook, like a knight from some old-fashioned book
G D G
I have saved all my ribbons for thee
C G
If I, if I have been unkind
Am D
I hope that you can let it go by
C G
If I, if I have been untrue,
Am D
I hope you know it was never to you.
G D G C
Like a baby stillborn, like a beast with his horn
G D G
I have torn everyone who reached out for me.
G D G C
But I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong
G D G
I will make it all up to thee.
C G
I saw a young man leaning on his wooden crutch
Am D
He called out to me, "Don’t ask for so much."
C G
And a young woman leaning in her darkened door,
Am D
She cried out to me, "Why not ask for more?"
G D G C
Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir
G D C G
I have tried in my way to be free
Original Written and Performed by Leonard Cohen
This Version
Jimmy Barnes and Troy Cassar Daley
From the Jimmy Barnes album: Double Happiness
Tabbed by magga1976
Capo 5th Fret
G D G C
Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir
G D G
I have tried in my way to be free
G D G C
Like a fish on a hook, like a knight from some old-fashioned book
G D G
I have saved all my ribbons for thee
C G
If I, if I have been unkind
Am D
I hope that you can let it go by
C G
If I, if I have been untrue,
Am D
I hope you know it was never to you.
G D G C
Like a baby stillborn, like a beast with his horn
G D G
I have torn everyone who reached out for me.
G D G C
But I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong
G D G
I will make it all up to thee.
C G
I saw a young man leaning on his wooden crutch
Am D
He called out to me, "Don’t ask for so much."
C G
And a young woman leaning in her darkened door,
Am D
She cried out to me, "Why not ask for more?"
G D G C
Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir
G D C G
I have tried in my way to be free
Jimmy C. Newman
Jimmy Charles
Jimmy Curtiss
Jimmy Cycle
Jimmy D. Lane