Field Commander Cohen chords by Leonard Cohen

• Capo on 5th

strum each of the x's
(*) indicates the chord should be played in this manner:
 Am        Dm
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

C x    x x  x   x x  x  G  x x x  Bb 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,
Dm x  x x  x x x x  C x  x x  Gm x  x x
  parachuting acid into  diplomatic cocktail parties,
Bb x  x x x x  x x F  x x   x  Cm  x x x
 urging Fidel Castro to abandon fields and castles.
     Bb x  x x  Dm
 Leave it all and like a man,
   Bb         Dm
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 E E E (just the bottom note)

 Bm             D
  I know you need your sleep now,

              A
  I know your life's been hard.

 Bm           D
  But many men are falling,

       A
Where you promised to stand guard.


 C   x  x x x  x x   x  x  x  G  x  x  x  Bb x x x
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
C   x     x  x  Gm  x  x x  Bb x     x  x
 than just some grateful faithful woman's  favourite singing
x x x x
millionaire,
  F x  x   x Cm x x x     Bb x  x x  Dm
the patron Saint of envy   and the grocer of despair,
 E             A
Working for the Yankee Dollar.


E E E E
 Bm
I know you need your sleep now ...


C  x  x x    x x  x  x   G    x  x x Bb x x x
 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.
C   x  x  x   Gm   x x  x Bb   x    x x x  x  x x
 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
*Am  *F  *Am  *F  *Am  *F
 oh my love, oh my love, oh my love,...