Leonard Cohen (21 Septiembre 1934 – 7 Noviembre 2016) nació en una familia judía de clase media de ascendencia polaca en Montreal y creció en Westmount. Su padre, Nathan Cohen, era propietario de una tienda de corte y confección y falleció cuando el joven poeta contaba nueve años. Según la tradición familiar, los Cohen descienden de los Kohanim. "Fui querido como un mesías", contó Cohen a Richard Golstein en 1967, "y se me decía que descendía de Aarón".
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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 . . .] [D D D D U D D D D U]
Intro: DE7EmA7GD (x2)
Verse 1: DE7 Ah the man she wanted all her life was hanging by a thread EmA7GD "I never even knew how much I wanted you," she said. DE7 His muscles they were numbered and his style was obsolete. EmA7GD "Oh baby, I have come too late." She knelt beside his feet.
Verse 2: DE7 "I'll never see a face like yours in years of men to come EmA7GD I'll never see such arms again in wrestling or in love." DE7 And all his virtues burning in the smoky Holocaust EmA7GD 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 EmEm/D#Em/DA7 She said, "I'll make a place between my legs, I'll show you solitude."
Interlude: D
Verse 3: DE7 He offered her an orgy in a many mirrored room EmA7GD He promised her protection for the issue of her womb DE7 She moved her body hard against a sharpened metal spoon EmA7GD She stopped the bloody rituals of passage to the moon
Piano solo backing: DE7EmA7GD (x2) D (for 2 bars)
Verse 4: DE7 She took his much admired oriental frame of mind EmA7GD and the heart-of-darkness alibi his money hides behind DE7 She took his blonde madonna and his monastery wine EmA7GD "This mental space is occupied and everything is mine."
Interlude: D (for 2 bars)
Verse 5: DE7 He tried to make a final stand beside the railway track EmA7GD She said, "The art of longing's over and it's never coming back." DE7 She took his tavern parliament, his cap, his cocky dance, EmA7GD 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 EmEm/D#Em/DA7 Who gives her soul an empty room and gives her body joy.
Last verse: DE7 So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed EmA7GD It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed? DE7 It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star EmA7GD I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.
Interlude: D (for 3 bars) DE7EmA7GD
DE7 It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star EmA7GD 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)
DE7 It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star EmA7GD 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