Songs Of Leonard Cohen
- Leonard Cohen
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Verse 1
E
Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
F#m
You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her
E
And you know that she's half-crazy, but that's why you wanna be there
G#m A
And she feeds you tea & oranges that come all the way from China
E F#m
And just when you mean to tell her that you have no love to give her
E F#m
Then she gets you on her wavelength & she lets the river answer
E
That you've always been her lover
Chorus
G#m A
And you want to travel with her, and you want to travel blind
E
And you know that she will trust you,
F#m E
For you've touched her perfect body with your mind
Verse 2
E
And Jesus was a sailor, when he walked upon the water
F#m
And he spent a long time watching, from his lonely wooden tower
E
And when he knew for certain, only drowning men could see him
G#m A
he said 'All men will be sailors then, until the sea shall free them
E F#m
But he himself was broken, long before the sky would open
E F#m E
Forsaken, almost human, he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
Chorus
G#m A
And you want to travel with him, and you want to travel blind
E
And you think maybe you'll trust him
F#m E
For he's touched your perfect body with his mind.
Verse 3
E
Now Suzanne takes your hand and she leads you to the river
F#m
She is wearing rags and feathers, from Salvation Army counters
E
And the sun pours down like honey, on our lady of the harbour
G#m A
And she shows you where to look, among the garbage and the flowers
E F#m
There are heroes in the seaweed, there are children in the morning
E F#m
They are leaning out for love, and they will lean that way forever
E
While Suzanne holds the mirror
Chorus
G#m A
And you want to travel with her, and you want to travel blind
E
And you know that you can trust her,
F#m E
For she's touched your perfect body with her mind
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2. Master Song
Capo 3rd fret
Intro
Em G
Em G
Verse 1
F Em
I believe that you heard your master sing
F Em
when I was sick in bed.
F Em
I suppose that he told you everything
F Em
that I keep locked away in my head.
F Am
Your master took you travelling,
C D
well at least that's what you said.
G G/F# G G/F#
And now do you come back to bring
C B
your prisoner wine and bread?
Em G
Verse 2
F Em
You met him at some temple, where
F Em
they take your clothes at the door.
F Em
He was just a numberless man in a chair
F Em
who'd just come back from the war.
F Am
And you wrap up his tired face in your hair
C D
and he hands you the apple core.
G G/F# G G/F#
Then he touches your lips now so suddenly bare
C B
of all the kisses we put on some time before.
Em G
Verse 3
F Em
And he gave you a German Shepherd to walk
F Em
with a collar of leather and nails,
F Em
and he never once made you explain or talk
F Em
about all of the little details,
F Am
such as who had a word and who had a rock,
C D
and who had you through the mails.
G G/F# G G/F#
Now your love is a secret all over the block,
C B
and it never stops not even when your master fails
Em G
Verse 4
F Em
And he took you up in his aeroplane,
F Em
which he flew without any hands,
F Em
and you cruised above the ribbons of rain
F Em
that drove the crowd from the stands.
F Am
Then he killed the lights in a lonely Lane
C D
and, an ape with angel glands,
G G/F# G G/F#
erased the final wisps of pain
C B
with the music of rubber bands.
Em G
Verse 5
F Em
And now I hear your master sing,
F Em
you kneel for him to come.
F Em
His body is a golden string
F Em
that your body is hanging from.
F Am
His body is a golden string,
C D
my body has grown numb.
G G/F# G G/F#
Oh now you hear your master sing,
C B
your shirt is all undone.
Em G
Verse 6
F Em
And will you kneel beside this bed
F Em
that we polished so long ago,
F Em
before your master chose instead
F Em
to make my bed of snow?
F Am
Your eyes are wild and your knuckles are red
C D
and you're speaking far too low.
G G/F# G G/F#
No I can't make out what your master said
C B
before he made you go.
Em G
Verse 7
F Em
Then I think you're playing far too rough
F Em
for a lady who's been to the moon;
F Em
I've lain by this window long enough
F Em
to get used to an empty room.
F Am
And your love is some dust in an old man's cough
C D
who is tapping his foot to a tune,
G G/F# G G/F#
and your thighs are a ruin, you want too much,
C B
let's say you came back some time too soon.
Em G
Verse 8
F Em
I loved your master perfectly
F Em
I taught him all that he knew.
F Em
He was starving in some deep mystery
F Em
like a man who is sure what is true.
F Am
And I sent you to him with my guarantee
C D
I could teach him something new,
G G/F# G G/F#
and I taught him how you would long for me
C B
no matter what he said no matter what you'd do.
Em G
Verse 9
F Em
I believe that you heard your master sing
F Em
while I was sick in bed,
F Em
I'm sure that he told you everything
F Em
I must keep locked away in my head.
F Am
Your master took you travelling,
C D
well at least that's what you said,
G G/F# G G/F#
And now do you come back to bring
C B
your prisoner wine and bread?
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3. Winter Lady
This song contains pretty unusual chords, so I'll tab them:
D11+: x 5 4 0 3 x
D11/A: x 0 4 0 3 x
Intro
Amaj7 D11+
Verse 1
D11+ Amaj7 D11+ C
Traveling lady stay awhile
D11+ Amaj7 D11+
Until the night is over
D11+ Amaj7 D11+ C
I'm just a station on your way
D11+ Amaj7 D11+
I know I am not your lover
Chorus 1
D11/A Am7
Well, I lived with a child of snow
D11/A Am7
When I was a soldier
D11/A Am7
And I fought every man for her
D11/A Am7
Until the nights grew colder
Verse 2
D11+ Amaj7 D11+ C
She used to wear her hair like you
D11+ Amaj7 D11+
Except when she was sleeping
D11+ Amaj7 D11+ C
And then she'd weave it on a loom
D11+ Amaj7 D11+
Of smoke and gold and breathing
Chorus 2
D11/A Am7
And why are you so quiet now
D11/A Am7
Standing there in the doorway?
D11/A Am7
You chose your journey long before
D11/A Am7
You came upon this highway
Verse 3
D11+ Amaj7 D11+ C
Traveling lady stay awhile
D11+ Amaj7 D11+
Until the night is over
D11+ Amaj7 D11+ C
I'm just a station on your way
D11+ Amaj7 D11+
I know I am not your lover
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4. The Stranger Song
Tuning: down one tone D G C F A D
Intro
F#sus4 F#m F#sus4 F#m F#sus4 F#m F#sus4 F#m
Verse 1
F#m D/A C D/A A
It's true that all the men you knew were dealers
E
Who said they were through with dealing
F#m F#sus4 F#m
Every time you gave them shelter
E Esus4 E
I know that kind of man
F#m F#sus4 F#m
It's hard to hold the hand of anyone
E Esus4 E F#m F#sus4 F#m
Who is reaching for the sky just to surrender
E Esus4 E F#m F#sus4 F#m F#sus4
Who is reaching for the sky just to surrender
Verse 2
F#m D/A C D/A A
And then sweeping up the jokers that he left behind
E
You find he did not leave you very much
F#m F#sus4 F#m
Not even laughter
E Esus4 E F#m
Like any dealer he was watching for the card
F#sus4 F#m E
That is so high and wild
E Esus4 F#m F#sus4 F#m
He'll never need to deal another
E Esus4 E F#m F#sus4 F#m
He was just some Joseph looking for a manger
E Esus4 E F#m F#sus4 F#m F#sus4
He was just some Joseph looking for a manger
Verse 3
F#m D/A C D/A
And then leaning on your window sill
A
He'll say one day you caused his will
E F#m F#sus4 F#m
To weaken with your love and warmth and shelter
E Esus4 E
And then taking from his wallet
F#m F#sus4 F#m
An old schedule of trains, he'll say
E Esus4 E F#m F#sus4 F#m
I told you when I came I was a stranger
E Esus4 E F#m F#sus4 F#m
I told you when I came I was a stranger
Verse 4
F#m D/A C D/A
But now another stranger seems
A
To want you to ignore his dreams
E F#m F#sus4 F#m
As though they were the burden of some other
E Esus4 E
O you've seen that man before
F#m F#sus4 F#m
His golden arm dispatching cards
E Esus4 E F#m F#sus4 F#m
But now it's rusted from the elbow to the finger
E Esus4 E F#m F#sus4 F#m
And he wants to trade the game he plays for shelter
E Esus4 E F#m F#sus4 F#m
Yes he wants to trade the game he knows for shelter
Verse 5
F#m D/A C D/A A
Ah you hate to watch another tired man
Lay down his hand
E F#m F#sus4 F#m
Like he was giving up the holy game of
E
And while he talks his dreams to sleep
F#m F#sus4 F#m
You notice there's a highway
E Esus E F#m F#sus4 F#m
That is curling up like smoke above his shoulder
E Esus E F#m F#sus4 F#m
It's curling just like smoke above his shoulder
Verse 6
F#m D/A C D/A
You tell him to come in sit down
A
But something makes you turn around
E F#m F#sus4 F#
The door is open you can't close your shelter
E Esus E
You try the handle of the road
F#m F#sus4 F#m
It opens do not be afraid
E Esus E F#m F#sus4 F#m
It's you my love, you who are the stranger
E Esus E F#m F#sus4 F#m
It's you my love, you who are the stranger
Verse 7
F#m D/A C D/A
Well, I've been waiting, I was sure
A E
We'd meet between the trains we're waiting for
F#m F#sus4 F#m
I think it's time to board another
E Esus E F#m
Please understand, I never had a secret chart
F#sus4 F#m E
To get me to the heart of this
Esus E F#m F#sus4 F#m
Or any other matter
E Esus E F#m F#sus4 F#m
When he talks like this you don't know what he's after
E Esus E F#m F#sus4 F#m
When he speaks like this, you don't know what he's after
Verse 8
F#m D/A C D/A
Let's meet tomorrow if you choose
A
Upon the shore, beneath the bridge
E F#m F#sus4 F#m
That they are building on some endless river
E
Then he leaves the platform
Esus4 E F#m
For the sleeping car that's warm
F#sus4 F#m E Esus4 E F#m F#sus4 F#m
You realize, he's only advertising one more shelter
E Esus4 E F#m F#sus4 F#m
And it comes to you, he never was a stranger
E Esus4 E F#m F#sus4 F#m
And you say okay the bridge or someplace later
Verse 9
F#m D/A C D/A A
And then sweeping up the jokers that he left behind
E
You find he did not leave you very much
F#m F#sus4 F#m
Not even laughter
E Esus4 E F#m
Like any dealer he was watching for the card
F#sus4 F#m E
That is so high and wild
E Esus4 F#m F#sus4 F#m
He'll never need to deal another
E Esus4 E F#m F#sus4 F#m
He was just some Joseph looking for a manger
E Esus4 E F#m F#sus4 F#m F#sus4
He was just some Joseph looking for a manger
Verse 10
F#m D/A C D/A
And then leaning on your window sill
A
He'll say one day you caused his will
E F#m F#sus4 F#m
To weaken with your love and warmth and shelter
E Esus4 E
And then taking from his wallet
F#m F#sus4 F#m
An old schedule of trains, he'll say
E Esus4 E F#m F#sus4 F#m F#sus4
I told you when I came I was a stranger
E Esus4 E F#m F#sus4 F#m F#sus4
I told you when I came I was a stranger
E Esus4 E F#m F#sus4 F#m F#sus4
I told you when I came I was a stranger
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5. Sisters of Mercy
Capo on 2nd fret
Verse 1
A D A E A D A
Oh the Sisters of Mercy they are not departed or gone
C#m G#m C#m G#m E Esus4 E
They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on
D A G F#m E Esus4 E
And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song
A D A E A D
Oh I hope you run into them you who've been traveling so long
D E
Verse 2
A D A E A D A
Yes you who must leave everything that you cannot control
C#m G#m C#m G#m E Esus4 E
It begins with your family, but soon it comes round to your soul
D A G F#m E Esus4 E
Well I've been where you're hanging I think I can see how you're pinned
A D A E A D
When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned
D E
Verse 3
A D A E A D A
They lay down beside me I made my confession to them
C#m G#m C#m G#m E Esus4 E
They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem
D A G F#m E Esus4 E
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn
A D A E A D
They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem
D E
Verse 4
A D A E A D A
When I left they were sleeping I hope you run into them soon
C#m G#m C#m G#m E Esus4 E
Dont turn on the lights you can read their address by the moon
D A G F#m E Esus4 E
And you won't make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night
D E
A D A E A
We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right
A D A E A
We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right
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6. So Long, Marianne
Verse 1
A Bm
Come over to the window, my little darling
D A
I'd like to try to read your palm
G D
I used to think I was some sort of gypsy boy
F#m E Esus4 E E7
before I let you take me home
Chorus
A F#m
Now so long, Marianne, It's time that we began
E Esus4 E E7 E Esus4 E E7 A Asus4
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again
Verse 2
A Bm
Well you know that I love to live with you
D A
but you make me forget so very much
G D
I forget to pray for the angels
F#m Esus4 E E7
and then the angels forget to pray for us
Chorus
A F#m
Now so long, Marianne, It's time that we began
E Esus4 E E7 E Esus4 E E7 A Asus4
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again
Verse 3
A Bm
We met when we were almost young
D A
deep in the green lilac park
G D
You held on to me like I was a crucifix
F#m E Esus4 E E7
as we went kneeling through the dark
Chorus
A F#m
Now so long, Marianne, It's time that we began
E Esus4 E E7 E Esus4 E E7 A Asus4
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again
Verse 4
A Bm
Your letters they all say that you're beside me now
D A
then why do I feel so alone
G D
I'm standing on a ledge and your fine spider web
F#m E Esus4 E E7
is fastening my ankle to a stone
Chorus
A F#m
Now so long, Marianne, It's time that we began
E Esus4 E E7 E Esus4 E E7 A Asus4
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again
Verse 5
A Bm
For now I need your hidden love
D A
I'm cold as a new razor blade
G D
You left when I told you I was curious
F#m E Esus4 E E7
I never said that I was brave
Chorus
A F#m
Now so long, Marianne, It's time that we began
E Esus4 E E7 E Esus4 E E7 A Asus4
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again
Verse 6
A Bm
Oh, you are really such a pretty one
D A
I see you've gone and changed your name again
G D
And just when I climbed this whole mountainside
F#m E Esus4 E E7
to wash my eyelids in the rain
Chorus
A F#m
Now so long, Marianne, It's time that we began
E Esus4 E E7 E Esus4 E E7 A Asus4
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again
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7. Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
Capo on 1st fret
Intro
E
Verse 1
A
I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,
F#m
your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,
D
yes, many loved before us, I know that we are not new,
A
in city and in forest they smiled like me and you,
F#m
but now it's come to distances and both of us must try,
D
your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Chorus
E A E
Hey, that's no way to say good bye.
Verse 2
A
I'm not looking for another as I wander in my time,
F#m
walk me to the corner, our steps will always rhyme
D
you know my love goes with you as your love stays with me,
A
it's just the way it changes, like the shoreline and the sea,
F#m
but let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie,
D
your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Chorus
E A E
Hey, that's no way to say good bye.
Verse 3
A
I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,
F#m
your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,
D
yes, many loved before us, I know that we are not new,
A
in city and in forest they smiled like me and you,
F#m
but let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie,
D
your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Chorus
E A E
Hey, that's no way to say good bye.
E
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8. Stories of The Street
Intro
Am
Verse 1
Am C Em7 Bm
The stories of the street are mine, the Spanish voices laugh
Am C Em7 Bm
The Cadillacs go creeping now through the night and the poison gas
Am F G F# B
And I lean from my window sill in this old hotel I chose
E A E D A Am
Yes one hand on my suicide, one hand on the rose
Verse 2
Am C Em7 Bm
I know you've heard it's over now and war must surely come
Am C Em Bm
The cities they are broke in half and the middle men are gone
Am F G F# B
But let me ask you one more time, o children of the dusk
E A E D A Am
All these hunters who are shrieking now oh do they speak for us?
Verse 3
Am C Em7 Bm
And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?
Am C Em7 Bm
Why are the armies marching still that were coming home to me?
Am F G F# B
O lady with your legs so fine, o stranger at your wheel
E A E D A Am
You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal
Verse 4
Am C Em7 Bm
The age of lust is giving birth, and both the parents ask
Am C Em7 Bm
The nurse to tell them fairy tales on both sides of the glass
Am F G F# B
And now the infant with his cord is hauled in like a kite
E A E D A Am
And one eye filled with blueprints, one eye filled with night
Verse 5
Am C Em7 Bm
O come with me my little one, we will find that farm
Am C Em7 Bm
And grow us grass and apples there and keep all the animals warm
Am F G F# B
And if by chance I wake at night and I ask you who I am
E A E D A Am
O take me to the slaughterhouse, I will wait there with the lamb
Verse 6
Am C Em7 Bm
With one hand on the hexagram and one hand on the girl
Am C Em7 Bm
I balance on a wishing well that all men call the world
Am F G F# B
We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky
E A E D A Am
And lost among the subway crowds I try to catch your eye
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9. Teachers
Intro
Bm
Verse 1
Bm G
I met a woman long ago
Bm G
Her hair the black that black can go
Bm G
Are you a teacher of the heart?
Bm
Soft she answered no
Bm
Verse 2
Bm G
I met a girl across the sea
Bm G
Her hair the gold that gold can be
Bm G
Are you a teacher of the heart?
Bm
Yes, but not for thee
Bm
Verse 3
Bm G
I met a man who lost his mind
Bm G
In some lost place I had to find
Bm G Bm
Follow me the wise man said
But he walked behind
Bm
Verse 4
Bm G
I walked into a hospital
Bm G
Where none was sick and none was well
Bm G
When at night the nurses left
Bm
I could not walk at all
Bm
Verse 5
Bm G
Morning came and then came noon
Bm G
Dinner time a scalpel blade
Bm G Bm
Lay beside my silver spoon
Bm
Verse 6
Bm G
Some girls wander by mistake
Bm G
Into the mess that scalpels make
Bm G
Are you the teachers of my heart?
Bm
We teach old hearts to break
Bm
Verse 7
Bm G
One morning I woke up alone
Bm G
The hospital and the nurses gone
Bm G
Have I carved enough my Lord?
Bm
Child, you are a bone
Bm
Verse 8
Bm G
I ate and ate and ate
Bm G
No I did not miss a plate, well
Bm G
How much do these suppers cost?
Bm
We'll take it out in hate
Bm
Verse 9
Bm G
I spent my hatred everyplace
Bm G
On every work on every face
Bm G
Someone gave me wishes
Bm
And I wished for an embrace
Bm
Verse 10
Bm G Bm
Several girls embraced me, then
G
I was embraced by men
Bm G
Is my passion perfect?
Bm
No, do it once again
Bm
Verse 11
Bm G
I was handsome I was strong
Bm G
I knew the words of every song
Bm G
Did my singing please you?
Bm
No, the words you sang were wrong
Bm
Verse 12
Bm G
Who is it whom I address
Bm G
Who takes down what I confess?
Bm G
Are you the teachers of my heart?
Bm
We teach old hearts to rest
Bm
Verse 13
Bm G
Oh teachers are my lessons done?
Bm G
I cannot do another one
Bm G
They laughed and laughed and said, Well child
Bm
Are your lessons done?
Bm
Are your lessons done?
Bm
Are your lessons done?
Bm
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10. One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
Intro
A A A A
Verse 1
A Bm Bm
I lit a thin green candle
D D A A
to make you jealous of me
A A Bm Bm
but the room just filled up with mosquitoes
D D E E
they heard that my body was free.
F#m F#m C#m C#m
Then I took the dust of a long sleepless night
D D A A
and I put it in your little shoe
Bm Bm G G
and then I confess that I tortured the dress
Bm A G G
that you wore for the world to look through.
A A A A
Verse 2
A A Bm Bm
I showed my heart to the doctor
D D A A
he said I'd just have to quit
A A Bm Bm
then he wrote himself a perscription
D D E E
and your name was mentioned in it.
F#m F#m C#m C#m
Then he locked himself in a library shelf
D D A A
with the details of our honeymoon
Bm Bm
and I hear from the nurse
G G
that he's gotten much worse
Bm A G G
and his practice is all in a ruin.
A A A A
Verse 3
A A Bm Bm
I heard of a saint who had loved you
D D A A
So I studied all night in his school
A A Bm Bm
he taught that the duty of lovers
D D E E
is to tarnish the golden rule.
F#m F#m
And just when I was sure
C#m C#m
that his teachings were pure
D D A A
he drowned himself in the pool
Bm Bm G G
his body is gone but back here on the lawn
Bm A G G
his spirit continues to drool.
A A A A
Verse 4
A A Bm Bm
An Eskimo showed me a movie
D D A A
he'd recently taken of you
A A Bm Bm
the poor man could hardly stop shivering,
D D E E
his lips and his fingers were blue.
F#m F#m
I suppose that he froze
C#m C#m
when the wind took your clothes
D D A
and I guess he just never got warm
Bm Bm G G
but you stand there so nice in your blizzard of ice
Bm A G G
o, please let me come into the storm.
A A A A
Ending
A A Bm Bm D D A A
A A Bm Bm D D E E
F#m F#m C#m C#m D D A A
Bm Bm G G Bm A G G
A A A A
A A Bm Bm D D A A
A A Bm Bm D D E E
F#m F#m C#m C#m D D A A
Bm Bm G G Bm A G G
Guitar
Piano
Ukulele (GCEA)
Bass
