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Death Of A Ladies Man by Leonard Cohen
Death Of A Ladies Man
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
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