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Dress Rehearsal Rag

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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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Subject: c/cohen_leonard/dress_rehearsal_rag.crd

Words & music by Leonard Cohen
Album: Songs of Love and Hate (1971)

[Intro]
Bm

[Verse 1]
Bm Cm C#m Cm
Four o'clock in the afternoon, and I didn't feel like very much.
Bm Cm C#m Cm
I said to my self, "where are you, golden boy, where's your famous golden touch?"
Bm Cm C#m Cm
I thought you knew where all of the elephants lie down,
Bm Cm C#m Cm
I thought you where the crown-prince of all the wheels in Ivory Town.

Bm Bbm Am Bbm
Just take a look at your body now, there's nothing much to save.
Bm Bbm Am Bbm
And a bitter voice in the mirror cries "Hey, Prince, you need a shave."

Bm Cm C#m Cm
Now if you can manage to get your trembling fingers to behave,
Bm Cm C#m Cm
Why don't you try unwrapping a stainless steel razor blade? That's right,

Bm Bbm Am
it's come to this. Yes, it's come to this,

[Chorus]
Bb D G
And wasn't it a long way down?
Bb D G
Wasn't it a strange way down?

[Verse 2]
Bm Cm C#m Cm
There's no hot water and the cold is running thin,
Bm Cm C#m Cm
Well, what do you expect from the kind of places you've been living in?
Bm Cm C#m Cm
Don't drink from that cup, it's all caked and cracked along the rim,
Bm Cm C#m Cm
That's not electric light, my friend, that is your vision growing dim.

Bm Bbm Am Bbm
Cover up your face with soap, there, now you're Santa Claus,
Bm Bbm Am Bbm
And you got a gift for anyone who will give you his applause.

Bm Cm C#m Cm
I thought you were a racing man, ah, but you couldn't take the pace.
Bm Cm C#m Cm
That's a funeral in the mirror, and it's stopping at your face. That's right,

Bm Bbm Am
it's come to this. Yes, it's come to this,

[Chorus]
Bb D G
And wasn't it a long way down?
Bb D G
Ah wasn't it a strange way down?

[Verse 3]
Bm Cm C#m Cm
Once there was a path and a girl with chestnut hair,
Bm Cm C#m Cm
And you passed the summers picking all of the berries that grew there.
Bm Cm C#m Cm
There were times she was a woman, oh, there were times she was just a child,
Bm Cm C#m Cm
And you held her in the shadow where the raspberries grow wild.

Bm Bbm Am Bbm
And you climbed twilight mountains, and you sang about the view,
Bm Bbm Am Bbm
And everywhere that you wandered, love seemed to go along with you.

Bm Cm C#m Cm
That's a hard one to remember, yes, it makes you clench your fist,
Bm Cm C#m Cm
And then the veins stand out like highways all along your wrist. And yes,

Bm Bbm Am
it's come to this. Yeah, it's come to this,

[Chorus]
Bb D G
And wasn't it a long way down?
Bb D G
Wasn't it a strange way down?

[Verse 4]
Bm Cm C#m Cm
You can still find a job, go out and talk to a friend,
Bm Cm C#m Cm
On the back of every magazine, there are those coupons you can send.
Bm Cm C#m Cm
Why don't you join the Rosicrucians? They will give you back your hope,
Bm Cm C#m Cm
You can find your love with diagrams on a plain brown envelope.

Bm Bbm Am Bbm
But you've used up all your coupons, except the one that seems
Bm Bbm Am Bbm
To be written on your wrist along with several thousand dreams.

Bm Cm C#m Cm
Now Santa Claus comes forward, that's a razor in his mitt,
Bm Cm C#m Cm
And he puts on his dark glasses, and he shows you where to hit.

Bm Bbm Am
And then the cameras pan, the stand-in stuntman,

[Outro]
Bb D G
dress re--hearsal rag,
Bb D G
It's just the dress re--hearsal rag,
Bb D G
You know this dress re--hearsal rag,
Bb D G
It's just the dress re--hearsal rag.