Field Commander Cohen

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 Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 20:16:24 -0700 (MST)
 
 From: T Dymarz 
 
 Subject: CRD:c/cohen_leonard/field_commander_cohen.crd
 
 
 
 tabbed by Tullia Dymarz tdymarz@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
 
 
 
 Instructions: CAPO 5
 
 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,...