Folk & Traditional Song Lyrics www.traditionalmusic.co.uk Suzanne 
Suzanne (Leonard Cohen) 
Suzanne takes you down To the place by the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night forever And you know that she's half crazy And that's why you want to be there And she feeds you tea and oranges That come all the way from China And just when you want to tell her That you have no love to give her She gets you on her wavelength And she lets the river answer That you've always been her lover
 And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind And you think maybe you'll trust her For she's touched your perfect body with her mind 
And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water And He spent a long time watching From a lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said, all men shall be sailors, then, Until the sea shall free them But He, himself was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone 
Suzanne takes you down To the place by the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night forever And the sun pours down like honey On Our Lady of the Harbor And she shows you where to look Amidst the garbage and the flowers There are heroes in the seaweed There are children in the morning 
They are leaning out for love And they will lean that way forever While Suzanne holds the mirror 
recorded by Judy Collins on It's My Life and by Belafonte on Homeward Bound