Field Commander Cohen chords by Leonard Cohen

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 5th

strum each of the x's
(*) indicates the chord should be played in this manner:
 A minorAm        DmDm
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 majorC x x x x x x x

C majorC x    x x  x   x x  x  G+G  x x x  Bb majorBb x x x
 Field Commander Cohen, he was our most important spy.
FF x    x x  x  x x x
 Wounded in the line of duty,
DmDm x  x x  x x x x  C majorC x  x x  G minorGm x  x x
  parachuting acid into  diplomatic cocktail parties,
Bb majorBb x  x x x x  x x FF  x x   x  C minorCm  x x x
 urging Fidel Castro to abandon fields and castles.
     Bb majorBb x  x x  DmDm
 Leave it all and like a man,
   Bb majorBb         DmDm
Come back to nothing special,

    *Am        *Am
such as waiting rooms and ticket lines,
*Dm       *Am
 silver bullet suicides,
*Dm       *Am
and messianic ocean tides,
*Dm        *Am
and racial roller-coaster rides
   *Bb            *A
and other forms of boredom advertised as poetry.

E MajorE E MajorE E MajorE E MajorE (just the bottom note)

 B minorBm             D MajorD
  I know you need your sleep now,

              A augmentedA
  I know your life's been hard.

 B minorBm           D MajorD
  But many men are falling,

       A augmentedA
Where you promised to stand guard.

 C majorC   x  x x x  x x   x  x  x  G+G  x  x  x  Bb majorBb x x x
I never asked  but I heard you cast your lot along with the poor.
FF   x   x x x   x  x x
 But then I overheard your prayer,
DmDm   x   x  x  x x  x x
 that you be this and nothing more
C majorC   x     x  x  G minorGm  x  x x  Bb majorBb x     x  x
 than just some grateful faithful woman's  favourite singing
x x x x
millionaire,
  FF x  x   x C minorCm x x x     Bb majorBb x  x x  DmDm
the patron Saint of envy   and the grocer of despair,
 E MajorE             A augmentedA
Working for the Yankee Dollar.


E MajorE E E MajorE E
 B minorBm
I know you need your sleep now ...


C majorC  x  x x    x x  x  x   G+G    x  x x Bb majorBb x x x
 Ah, lover come and lie with me, if my lover is who you are,
FF  x x  x  x  x  x  x DmDm x   x x  x  x  x x
 and be your sweetest self awhile until I ask for more, my child.
C majorC   x  x  x   G minorGm   x x  x Bb majorBb   x    x x x  x  x x
 Then let the other selves be wrong, yeah, let them manifest and come
FF   x   x   x C minorCm x  x x
 till every taste is on the tongue,
Bb majorBb  x    x    x  DmDm  x x  x
 till love is pierced and love is hung,
Bb majorBb  x   x  x DmDm x  x x
 and every kind of freedom done, then
*Am  *F  *Am  *F  *Am  *F
 oh my love, oh my love, oh my love,...