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From Leonard Cohen's 1984 album 'Various Positions'
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        Chord diagramA augmentedA                 Chord diagramE MajorE
Now the Captain called me to his bed
    Chord diagramD MajorD              Chord diagramA augmentedA
He fumbled for my hand
 Chord diagramD MajorD                 Chord diagramA augmentedA
Take these silver bars, he said
      Chord diagramE MajorE           Chord diagramA augmentedA
I'm giving you command.
   Chord diagramA augmentedA                     Chord diagramA7A7
Command of what, there's no one here
         Chord diagramD MajorD           Chord diagramA augmentedA
There's only you and me
         Chord diagramE MajorE
All the rest are dead or in retreat
    Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramA augmentedA
Or with the enemy.

          Chord diagramA augmentedA                   Chord diagramE MajorE
Complain, complain, that's all you've done
  Chord diagramD MajorD            Chord diagramA augmentedA
Ever since we lost
    Chord diagramD MajorD                  Chord diagramA augmentedA
If it's not the Crucifixion
      Chord diagramE MajorE             Chord diagramA augmentedA
Then it's the Holocaust.
     Chord diagramA augmentedA                     Chord diagramA7A7
May Christ have mercy on your soul
       Chord diagramD MajorD           Chord diagramA augmentedA
For making such a joke
      Chord diagramE MajorE
Amid these hearts that burn like coal
           Chord diagramD MajorD                  Chord diagramA augmentedA
And the flesh that rose like smoke.

   Chord diagramA augmentedA                   Chord diagramE MajorE
I know that you have suffered, lad
     Chord diagramD MajorD             Chord diagramA augmentedA
But suffer this awhile
      Chord diagramD MajorD                   Chord diagramA augmentedA
Whatever makes a soldier sad
      Chord diagramE MajorE              Chord diagramA augmentedA
Will make a killer smile.
     Chord diagramA augmentedA                            Chord diagramA7A7
I'm leaving, Captain, I've got to go
         Chord diagramD MajorD               Chord diagramA augmentedA
There's blood upon your hand
     Chord diagramE MajorE
But tell me, Captain, if you know
      Chord diagramD MajorD                Chord diagramA augmentedA
Of a decent place to stand.

      Chord diagramA augmentedA                       Chord diagramE MajorE
There is no decent place to stand
Chord diagramD MajorD         Chord diagramA augmentedA
In a massacre
    Chord diagramD MajorD                     Chord diagramA augmentedA
But if a woman take your hand
     Chord diagramE MajorE                  Chord diagramA augmentedA
Then go and stand with her.
    Chord diagramA augmentedA                   Chord diagramA7A7
I left a wife in Tennessee
      Chord diagramD MajorD           Chord diagramA augmentedA
And a baby in Saigon
     Chord diagramE MajorE
I risked my life but not to hear
      Chord diagramD MajorD                Chord diagramA augmentedA
Some country-western song.

        Chord diagramA augmentedA                          Chord diagramE MajorE
Ah, but if you cannot raise your love
     Chord diagramD MajorD             Chord diagramA augmentedA
To a very high degree
             Chord diagramD MajorD                              Chord diagramA augmentedA
Then you're just the man I've been thinking of
    Chord diagramE MajorE                  Chord diagramA augmentedA
So come and stand with me.
       Chord diagramA augmentedA                         Chord diagramA7A7
Your standing days are done, I cried,
       Chord diagramD MajorD             Chord diagramA augmentedA
You'll rally me no more
   Chord diagramE MajorE
I don't even know what side
    Chord diagramD MajorD                  Chord diagramA augmentedA
We fought on, or what for.

     Chord diagramA augmentedA                         Chord diagramE MajorE
I'm on the side that's always lost
    Chord diagramD MajorD                   Chord diagramA augmentedA
Against the side of Heaven
    Chord diagramD MajorD                            Chord diagramA augmentedA
I'm on the side of Snake-eyes tossed
    Chord diagramE MajorE                  Chord diagramA augmentedA
Against the side of Seven
         Chord diagramA augmentedA                         Chord diagramA7A7
And I've read the Bill of Human Rights
      Chord diagramD MajorD              Chord diagramA augmentedA
And some of it was true
     Chord diagramE MajorE
But there wasn't any burden left
        Chord diagramD MajorD            Chord diagramA augmentedA
So I'm laying it on you.

         Chord diagramA augmentedA              Chord diagramE MajorE
Now the Captain he was dying
         Chord diagramD MajorD              Chord diagramA augmentedA
But the Captain wasn't hurt
     Chord diagramD MajorD               Chord diagramA augmentedA
The silver bars were in my hand
    Chord diagramE MajorE                 Chord diagramA augmentedA
I pinned them to my shirt

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