Leonard Cohen – So Long Marianne (Guitar)

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Album: Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967) [Verse 1]
     A                                 Bm
Come over   to the window,  my little darling

D                              A
I'd like to try to read your palm

G                                    D
I used to think I was some kind of gypsy boy

F#m                         E   Esus4 E E7
   before I let you take me home
[Chorus]
    A                 F#m
Now so long, Marianne,    It's time that we began

    E   Esus4     E  E7     E Esus4       E      E7     A        Asus4
to laugh      and cry   and cry      and laugh about it all again
[Verse 2]
          A                   Bm
Well you know  that I love to live with you

D                                A
 but you make me forget so very much

G                          D
 I forget to pray for the angels

             F#m                       Esus4 E E7
and then the angels forget to pray for us
[Chorus]
    A                 F#m
Now so long, Marianne,    It's time that we began

    E   Esus4     E  E7     E Esus4       E      E7     A        Asus4
to laugh      and cry   and cry      and laugh about it all again
[Verse 3]
    A                 Bm
We met when   we were almost young

D                         A
 deep in the green Lilac park

G                                D
 You held on to me like I was a crucifix

F#m                                 E   Esus4 E E7
   as we went kneeling through the dark
[Chorus]
   A                 F#m
Oh so long, Marianne,    It's time that we began

    E   Esus4     E  E7     E Esus4       E      E7     A        Asus4
to laugh      and cry   and cry      and laugh about it all again
[Verse 4]
      A                                  Bm
Your letters  they all say that you're beside me now

D                     A
 then why do I feel alone

G                                 D
 I'm standing on a ledge and your fine spider web

    F#m                      E  Esus4 E E7
is fastening my ankle to a stone
[Chorus]
    A                 F#m
Now so long, Marianne,    It's time that we began

    E   Esus4     E  E7     E Esus4       E      E7     A        Asus4
to laugh      and cry   and cry      and laugh about it all again
[Verse 5]
     A              Bm
For now I need your hidden love

D                         A
 I'm cold as a new razor blade

G                                D
 You left when I told you I was curious

F#m                         E   Esus4 E E7
   I never said that I was brave
[Chorus]
   A                 F#m
Oh so long, Marianne,    It's time that we began

    E   Esus4     E  E7     E Esus4       E      E7     A        Asus4
to laugh      and cry   and cry      and laugh about it all again
[Verse 6]
     A                     Bm
Oh, you are really such a pretty one

D                                   A
 I see you've gone and changed your name again

G                              D
 And just when I climbed this whole mountainside

    F#m                       E  Esus4 E E7
to wash my eye__lids in the rain
[Chorus]
   A                 F#m
Oh so long, Marianne,    It's time that we began

    E   Esus4     E  E7     E Esus4       E      E7     A        Asus4
to laugh      and cry   and cry      and laugh about it all again
[Verse](I found this extra verse written out somewhere. Not on the original recording from the Best Of... Disc)
   A                    Bm
Oh, your eyes, well, I forget your eyes

D                              A
 your body's at home in every sea

G                             D
 How come you gave away your news to everyone

F#m                              E Esus4 E E7
When you said it was a secret just for me