# # #----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# ##This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # ##song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## #Leonard Cohen: One of us cannot be wrong # #I heard this song nearly thousand years ago when I was a fifteen year old boy. #And as simple as the music of the song is, it captivated me until today. # #The song appears on the CD "Songs of Leonard Cohen" #and on the newest live album "Leonard Cohen: Live In Concert" # #Knows anybody the chords of "Dance me to the end of love"? #I would be thankful if you'd send them to my email-adress # Adi.Heindl@chemie.uni-regensburg.de # # Accompaniment Pattern: written for A Major # # E----------------------------|----------------------------| # B-----------2---------2------|-----------2---------2------| # 3/4 G-----------2---------2------|-----------2---------2------| # D------2---------2---------2-|------2---------2---------2-| # A-0--------------------------|-0--------------------------| # E----------------------------|----------------------------| # AAAA /A /Bm /Bm I lit a thin green candle D /D /A /A to make you jealous of me /A /A /Bm /Bm but the room just filled up with mosquitoes /D /D /E /E they heard that my body was free. /F#m /F#m /C#m /C#m Then I took the dust of a long sleepless night /D /D /A /A and I put it in your little shoe /Bm /Bm /G /G and then I confess that I tortured the dress /Bm /A /G /G that you wore for the world to look through. AAAA /A /Bm /Bm I showed my heart to the doctor D /D /A /A he said I'd just have to quit /A /A /Bm /Bm then he wrote himself a perscription /D /D /E /E and your name was mentioned in it. /F#m /F#m /C#m /C#m Then he locked himself in a library shelf /D /D /A /A with the details of our honeymoon /Bm /Bm and I hear from the nurse /G /G that he's gotten much worse /Bm /A /G /G and his practice is all in a ruin. AAAA /A /Bm /Bm I heard of a saint who had loved you /D /D /A /A So I studied all night in his school /A /A /Bm /Bm he taught that the duty of lovers /D /D /E /E is to tarnish the golden rule. /F#m /F#m //C#m And just when I was sure /C#m /C#m that his teachings were pure /Bm /Bm /A /A he drowned himself in the pool /Bm /Bm /G /G his body is gone but back here on the lawn /Bm /A /G /G his spirit continues to drool. AAAA /A /Bm /Bm An Eskimo showed me a movie D /D /A /A he'd recently taken of you /A /A /Bm /Bm the poor man could hardly stop shivering, /D /D /E /E his lips and his fingers were blue. /F#m /F#m I suppose that he froze /C#m /C#m when the wind took your clothes /D /D /A and I guess he just never got warm /Bm /Bm /G /G but you stand there so nice in your blizzard of ice /Bm /A /G /G o, please let me come into the storm.