Leonard Cohen - Death of a Ladies' Man (1977) Chords 30/11-2015 by Jon Malmin ([email protected]) Tuning: Standard E (Capo 3rd fret) Strumming pattern (dots denote sixteenth notes): [1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . .] [D D D D U D D D D U] Intro: D E7 Em A7 G D (x2) Verse 1: D E7 Ah the man she wanted all her life was hanging by a thread Em A7 G D "I never even knew how much I wanted you," she said. D E7 His muscles they were numbered and his style was obsolete. Em A7 G D "Oh baby, I have come too late." She knelt beside his feet. Verse 2: D E7 "I'll never see a face like yours in years of men to come Em A7 G D I'll never see such arms again in wrestling or in love." D E7 And all his virtues burning in the smoky Holocaust Em A7 G D She took unto herself most everything her lover lost Bridge 1: Bm ........Now the master of this landscape he was standing at the view Em with a sparrow of St. Francis that he was preaching to F#m She beckoned to the sentry of his high religious mood Em Em/D# Em/D A7 She said, "I'll make a place between my legs, I'll show you solitude." Interlude: D Verse 3: D E7 He offered her an orgy in a many mirrored room Em A7 G D He promised her protection for the issue of her womb D E7 She moved her body hard against a sharpened metal spoon Em A7 G D She stopped the bloody rituals of passage to the moon Piano solo backing: D E7 Em A7 G D (x2) D (for 2 bars) Verse 4: D E7 She took his much admired oriental frame of mind Em A7 G D and the heart-of-darkness alibi his money hides behind D E7 She took his blonde madonna and his monastery wine Em A7 G D "This mental space is occupied and everything is mine." Interlude: D (for 2 bars) Verse 5: D E7 He tried to make a final stand beside the railway track Em A7 G D She said, "The art of longing's over and it's never coming back." D E7 She took his tavern parliament, his cap, his cocky dance, Em A7 G D She mocked his female fashions and his working-class moustache. Bridge 2: Bm ........Now the last time that I saw him he was trying hard to get Em A woman's education but he's not a woman yet F#m And the last time that I saw her she was living with some boy Em Em/D# Em/D A7 Who gives her soul an empty room and gives her body joy. Last verse: D E7 So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed Em A7 G D It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed? D E7 It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star Em A7 G D I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far. Interlude: D (for 3 bars) D E7 Em A7 G D D E7 It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star Em A7 G D I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far. Interlude: D (Strum it fast this time, there is no set time signature. Last time the next part is repeated, there is only keyboard and no guitar) D E7 It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star Em A7 G D I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far. Chord shape suggestions for the Em-Em/D#-Em/D part: Em: Em/D#: Em/D: x-x-2-0-0-0 x-x-1-0-0-0 x-x-0-0-0-0 OR: OR: OR: x-7-5-0-0-0 x-6-5-0-0-0 x-5-5-0-0-0
