Death Of A Ladies Man – Leonard Cohen
Nghệ sĩ: Leonard Cohen
Hợp Âm Chuẩn
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 . . .
Intro: (x2)
Verse 1:
ch]D[/ch] [ch]E7[/ch
Ah the man she wanted all her life was hanging by a thread
ch]Em[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch
"I never even knew how much I wanted you," she said.
ch]D[/ch] [ch]E7[/ch
His muscles they were numbered and his style was obsolete.
ch]Em[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch
"Oh baby, I have come too late." She knelt beside his feet.
Verse 2:
ch]D[/ch] [ch]E7[/ch
"I'll never see a face like yours in years of men to come
ch]Em[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch
I'll never see such arms again in wrestling or in love."
ch]D[/ch] [ch]E7[/ch
And all his virtues burning in the smoky Holocaust
ch]Em[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch
She took unto herself most everything her lover lost
Bridge 1:
ch]Bm[/ch
........Now the master of this landscape he was standing at the view
ch]Em[/ch
with a sparrow of St. Francis that he was preaching to
ch]F#m[/ch
She beckoned to the sentry of his high religious mood
ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Em/D#[/ch] [ch]Em/D[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch
She said, "I'll make a place between my legs, I'll show you solitude."
Interlude:
Verse 3:
ch]D[/ch] [ch]E7[/ch
He offered her an orgy in a many mirrored room
ch]Em[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch
He promised her protection for the issue of her womb
ch]D[/ch] [ch]E7[/ch
She moved her body hard against a sharpened metal spoon
ch]Em[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch
She stopped the bloody rituals of passage to the moon
Piano solo backing:
(x2)
(for 2 bars)
Verse 4:
ch]D[/ch] [ch]E7[/ch
She took his much admired oriental frame of mind
ch]Em[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch
and the heart-of-darkness alibi his money hides behind
ch]D[/ch] [ch]E7[/ch
She took his blonde madonna and his monastery wine
ch]Em[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch
"This mental space is occupied and everything is mine."
Interlude: (for 2 bars)
Verse 5:
ch]D[/ch] [ch]E7[/ch
He tried to make a final stand beside the railway track
ch]Em[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch
She said, "The art of longing's over and it's never coming back."
ch]D[/ch] [ch]E7[/ch
She took his tavern parliament, his cap, his cocky dance,
ch]Em[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch
She mocked his female fashions and his working-class moustache.
Bridge 2:
ch]Bm[/ch
........Now the last time that I saw him he was trying hard to get
ch]Em[/ch
A woman's education but he's not a woman yet
ch]F#m[/ch
And the last time that I saw her she was living with some boy
ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Em/D#[/ch] [ch]Em/D[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch
Who gives her soul an empty room and gives her body joy.
Last verse:
ch]D[/ch] [ch]E7[/ch
So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed
ch]Em[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch
It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed?
ch]D[/ch] [ch]E7[/ch
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
ch]Em[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.
Interlude:
(for 3 bars)
ch]D[/ch] [ch]E7[/ch
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
ch]Em[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.
Interlude:
[ch]D[/ch] (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)
ch]D[/ch] [ch]E7[/ch
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
ch]Em[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.
Chord shape suggestions for the [ch]Em[/ch]-[ch]Em/D#[/ch]-[ch]Em/D[/ch] part:
x-x-2-0-0-0 x-x-1-0-0-0 x-x-0-0-0-0[/tab]
OR: OR: OR:
x-7-5-0-0-0 x-6-5-0-0-0 x-5-5-0-0-0