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Death Of A Ladies Man

Biography:

Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, sexuality, and romantic relationships. Cohen was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011, Cohen received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize.

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Leonard Cohen - Death of a Ladies' Man (1977)
Chords 30/11-2015 by Jon Malmin ([email protected])
Tuning: Standard E (Capo 3rd fret)

Strumming pattern (dots denote sixteenth notes):
[1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . .]
[D D D D U D D D D U]

Intro: D E7 Em A7 G D (x2)

Verse 1:
D E7
Ah the man she wanted all her life was hanging by a thread
Em A7 G D
"I never even knew how much I wanted you," she said.
D E7
His muscles they were numbered and his style was obsolete.
Em A7 G D
"Oh baby, I have come too late." She knelt beside his feet.

Verse 2:
D E7
"I'll never see a face like yours in years of men to come
Em A7 G D
I'll never see such arms again in wrestling or in love."
D E7
And all his virtues burning in the smoky Holocaust
Em A7 G D
She took unto herself most everything her lover lost

Bridge 1:
Bm
........Now the master of this landscape he was standing at the view
Em
with a sparrow of St. Francis that he was preaching to
F#m
She beckoned to the sentry of his high religious mood
Em Em/D# Em/D A7
She said, "I'll make a place between my legs, I'll show you solitude."

Interlude: D

Verse 3:
D E7
He offered her an orgy in a many mirrored room
Em A7 G D
He promised her protection for the issue of her womb
D E7
She moved her body hard against a sharpened metal spoon
Em A7 G D
She stopped the bloody rituals of passage to the moon

Piano solo backing:
D E7 Em A7 G D (x2)
D (for 2 bars)

Verse 4:
D E7
She took his much admired oriental frame of mind
Em A7 G D
and the heart-of-darkness alibi his money hides behind
D E7
She took his blonde madonna and his monastery wine
Em A7 G D
"This mental space is occupied and everything is mine."

Interlude: D (for 2 bars)

Verse 5:
D E7
He tried to make a final stand beside the railway track
Em A7 G D
She said, "The art of longing's over and it's never coming back."
D E7
She took his tavern parliament, his cap, his cocky dance,
Em A7 G D
She mocked his female fashions and his working-class moustache.

Bridge 2:
Bm
........Now the last time that I saw him he was trying hard to get
Em
A woman's education but he's not a woman yet
F#m
And the last time that I saw her she was living with some boy
Em Em/D# Em/D A7
Who gives her soul an empty room and gives her body joy.

Last verse:
D E7
So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed
Em A7 G D
It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed?
D E7
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
Em A7 G D
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.

Interlude:
D (for 3 bars)
D E7 Em A7 G D

D E7
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
Em A7 G D
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.

Interlude:
D (Strum it fast this time, there is no set time signature. Last time the next
part is repeated, there is only keyboard and no guitar)

D E7
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
Em A7 G D
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.

Chord shape suggestions for the Em-Em/D#-Em/D part:
Em: Em/D#: Em/D:
x-x-2-0-0-0 x-x-1-0-0-0 x-x-0-0-0-0
OR: OR: OR:
x-7-5-0-0-0 x-6-5-0-0-0 x-5-5-0-0-0