Field Commander Cohen
Leonard Cohen
#----------------------------------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. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# Date: Sat 3 Jan 1998 20:16:24 -0700 (MST) > Subject: CRD:c/cohen_leonard/field_commander_cohen.crd tabbed by Tullia Dymarz Instructions: CAPO 5 strum each of the x’s (*) indicates the chord should be played in this manner: e-----0---0--|-----1---1---| b-----1---1--|-----3---3---| g---2---2---2|---2---2---2-| d------------|-0-----------| a-0----------|-------------| E------------|-------------| Field Commander Cohen - New Skin for the Old Ceremony C x x x x x x x Field Commander Cohen he was our most important spy. F x x x x x x x Wounded in the line of duty parachuting acid into diplomatic cocktail parties urging Fidel Castro to abandon fields and castles. Bb x x x Dm Leave it all and like a man come back to nothing special such as waiting rooms and ticket lines silver bullet suicides and messianic ocean tides and racial roller-coaster rides and other forms of boredom advertised as poetry. (just the bottom note) I know you need your sleep now I know your life’s been hard. But many men are falling where you promised to stand guard. I never asked but I heard you cast your lot along with the poor. F x x x x x x x But then I overheard your prayer Dm x x x x x x x that you be this and nothing more than just some grateful faithful woman’s favourite singing x x x x millionaire the patron Saint of envy and the grocer of despair working for the Yankee Dollar. I know you need your sleep now ... Ah lover come and lie with me if my lover is who you are F x x x x x x x Dm x x x x x x x and be your sweetest self awhile until I ask for more my child. Then let the other selves be wrong yeah let them manifest and come F x x x Cm x x x till every taste is on the tongue Bb x x x Dm x x x till love is pierced and love is hung Bb x x x Dm x x x and every kind of freedom done then oh my love oh my love oh my love...