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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Other songs:
- Ain't No Cure For Love
- Aleluya
- Bird On A Wire
- Bird On The Wire
- Blessed Is The Memory
- Chelsea Hotel
- Chelsea Hotel #2
- Chelsea Hotel No 2
- Chelsea Hotel No. 2
- Dance Me To The End Of Love
- Diamonds In The Mine
- Famous Blue Raincoat
- Hallelujah
- Halluejah
- Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye
- Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
- Last Years Man
- Passing Through
- Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
- Shrek - Aleluya (hallelujah)
- Slow
- Suzanne
- The Partisan
- If It Be Your Will
- So Long Marianne
- A Bunch Of Lonesome Heroes
- A Singer Must Die
- A Thousand Kisses Deep
- A Veterans Hallelujah
- Aint No Cure For Love
- Alexandra Leaving
- Almost Like The Blues
- Always
- Amen
- Anthem
- Avalanche
- Ballad Of The Absent Mare
- Banjo
- Boogie Street
- Born In Chains
- Chelsea Hotel 2
- Closing Time
- Come Healing
- Coming Back To You
- Crazy To Love You
- Death Of A Ladies Man
- Democracy
- Did I Ever Love You
- Dont Go Home With Your Hard
- Dress Rehearsal Rag
- Everybody Knows
- Field Commander Cohen
- First We Take Manhattan
- Going Home
- Heart With No Companion
- Hey Thats No Way
- Hey Thats No Way To Say Goodbye
- I Was Never Any Good At Loving You
- If I Didnt Have Your Love
- Im Your Man
- In My Secret Life
- Iodine
- Is This What You Wanted
- It Seemed The Better Way
- Joan Of Arc
- Lady Midnight
- Land Of Plenty
- Leaving Green Sleeves
- Leaving The Table
- Love Calls You By Your Name
- Lover Lover Lover
- Master Song
- Memories
- My Oh My
- Nevermind
- Night Comes On
- No Way To Say Goodbye
- On The Level
- One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong
- Paper Thin Hotel
- Samson In New Orleans
- Seems So Long Ago
- Seems So Long Ago Nancy
- Show Me The Place
- Sing Another Song Boys
- Sisters Of Mercy
- Song Of Bernadette
- Songs From A Room
- Songs Of Leonard Cohen
- Steer Your Way
- Store Room
- Stories Of The Street
- Story Of Isaac
- Stranger Song
- Take This Longing
- Take This Waltz
- Teachers
- Tennessee Waltz
- That Dont Make It Junk
- The Butcher
- The Captain
- The Darkness
- The Future
- The Guests
- The Gypsy Wife
- The Old Revolution
- The Smokey Life
- The Stranger Song
- The Traitor
- The Window
- There Is War
- Theres No Reason Why You Should
- Tonight Will Be Fine
- Tower Of Song
- Treaty
- True Love Leaves No Traces
- Waiting For The Miracle
- Who By Fire
- Why Dont You Try
- Winter Lady
- You Got Me Singing
- You Have Loved Enough
- You Know Who I Am
- You Want It Darker
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[Intro]
Am
Am C
1: The stories of the street are mine,
Em Bm
The Spanish voices laugh...
Am C
The Cadillacs go creeping down
Em Bm
Through the night and the poison gas
Am F
And I lean from my window-sill
G F# B
In this old hotel I chose
E A
With one hand on my suicide
E D A Am
One hand on the rose... hmmm
2: I know you've heard it's over now
And war must surely come
The cities they are broke in half
And the middle-men are gone...
But let me ask you one more time
Oh Children of the Dust...
These hundreds who are shrieking now,
Oh do they speak for us? Hmmm...
3: And where do all these highways go
Now that we are free?
Why are the armies marching still
That were coming home to me?
Oh lady, with your legs so fine,
Oh stranger at your wheel...
You are locked inside your suffering
And your pleasures are the seal... Hmmm...
4: The Age of Lust is giving birth
And both the parents ask
The nurse to tell them fairytales
On both sides of the glass...
And now the infant with its cord
Is hauled in like a kite...
With one eye filled with blueprints
And one eye filled with night... Hmmm...
5: Oh come with me my little one
And we will find that farm
And grow us grass and apples there
And keep all the animals warm...
And if by chance I wake at night
And I ask you who I am
Oh then take me to the slaughter-house
I will wait there with the lamb... Hmmm...
6: With one hand on a hexagram
And one hand on a girl
I balance on a wishing-well
That all men call the world...
We are so small between the stars;
So large against the sky...
And lost among the subway crowds
I try to catch your eye... Hmmm...
This has been one of my favourite Leonard Cohen songs for many years.
I saw a version was posted on this site already, but it was in Em...
this version, which I believe is perhaps the original key, is in Am.
I haven't tried the Em version yet, but I'm betting this version
sounds better... Let me know if I'm right!
Am
Am C
1: The stories of the street are mine,
Em Bm
The Spanish voices laugh...
Am C
The Cadillacs go creeping down
Em Bm
Through the night and the poison gas
Am F
And I lean from my window-sill
G F# B
In this old hotel I chose
E A
With one hand on my suicide
E D A Am
One hand on the rose... hmmm
2: I know you've heard it's over now
And war must surely come
The cities they are broke in half
And the middle-men are gone...
But let me ask you one more time
Oh Children of the Dust...
These hundreds who are shrieking now,
Oh do they speak for us? Hmmm...
3: And where do all these highways go
Now that we are free?
Why are the armies marching still
That were coming home to me?
Oh lady, with your legs so fine,
Oh stranger at your wheel...
You are locked inside your suffering
And your pleasures are the seal... Hmmm...
4: The Age of Lust is giving birth
And both the parents ask
The nurse to tell them fairytales
On both sides of the glass...
And now the infant with its cord
Is hauled in like a kite...
With one eye filled with blueprints
And one eye filled with night... Hmmm...
5: Oh come with me my little one
And we will find that farm
And grow us grass and apples there
And keep all the animals warm...
And if by chance I wake at night
And I ask you who I am
Oh then take me to the slaughter-house
I will wait there with the lamb... Hmmm...
6: With one hand on a hexagram
And one hand on a girl
I balance on a wishing-well
That all men call the world...
We are so small between the stars;
So large against the sky...
And lost among the subway crowds
I try to catch your eye... Hmmm...
This has been one of my favourite Leonard Cohen songs for many years.
I saw a version was posted on this site already, but it was in Em...
this version, which I believe is perhaps the original key, is in Am.
I haven't tried the Em version yet, but I'm betting this version
sounds better... Let me know if I'm right!
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