Chords with lyrics
From Leonard Cohen's 1984 album 'Various Positions'
Enjoy!
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Now the Captain called me to his bed
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He fumbled for my hand
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Take these silver bars, he said
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I'm giving you command.
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Command of what, there's no one here
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There's only you and me
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All the rest are dead or in retreat
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Or with the enemy.
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Complain, complain, that's all you've done
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Ever since we lost
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If it's not the Crucifixion
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Then it's the Holocaust.
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May Christ have mercy on your soul
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For making such a joke
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Amid these hearts that burn like coal
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And the flesh that rose like smoke.
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I know that you have suffered, lad
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But suffer this awhile
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Whatever makes a soldier sad
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Will make a killer smile.
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I'm leaving, Captain, I've got to go
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There's blood upon your hand
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But tell me, Captain, if you know
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Of a decent place to stand.
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There is no decent place to stand
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In a massacre
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But if a woman take your hand
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Then go and stand with her.
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I left a wife in Tennessee
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And a baby in Saigon
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I risked my life but not to hear
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Some country-western song.
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Ah, but if you cannot raise your love
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To a very high degree
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Then you're just the man I've been thinking of
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So come and stand with me.
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Your standing days are done, I cried,
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You'll rally me no more
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I don't even know what side
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We fought on, or what for.
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I'm on the side that's always lost
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Against the side of Heaven
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I'm on the side of Snake-eyes tossed
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Against the side of Seven
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And I've read the Bill of Human Rights
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And some of it was true
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But there wasn't any burden left
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So I'm laying it on you.
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Now the Captain he was dying
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But the Captain wasn't hurt
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The silver bars were in my hand
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I pinned them to my shirt