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Death of a Ladies' Man chords by
Leonard Cohen
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Key: F major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Ah the man she
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wanted all her life was hanging by a thread
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"I never even knew how much
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I wanted you," she said.

His muscles they were numbered
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and his style was obsolete.
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"O baby, I have come too late."
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She knelt beside his feet.

"I'll never see a face like yours
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E

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in years of men to come
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I'll never see such arms again
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in wrestling or in love."

And all his virtues burning in
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the smoky Holocaust
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She took unto herself most
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everything her lover lost

Now the master of this landscape

he was standing at the view
Em
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With a sparrow of St. Francis

that he was preaching to
F#m
F#m
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She beckoned to the sentry of

his high religious mood
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She said, "I'll make a place
Eb
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6

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between my legs,
Ebdim
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I'll show you solitude."
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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He offered her an orgy in
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a many mirrored room
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He promised her protection
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for the issue of her womb

She moved her body hard against
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a sharpened metal spoon
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She stopped the bloody rituals of passage to the
Interlude 2

moon
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Verse 3
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She took his much admired
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oriental frame of mind
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And the heart-of-darkness alibi
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alibi alibi his money hides behind
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She took his blonde Madonna
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and his monastery wine
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"This mental space is occu
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pied and everything is mine."
Interlude 3
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Verse 4
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He tried to make a final stand be
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side the railway track
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She said, "The art of longing's over
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and it's never coming back."

She took his tavern parliament,
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his cap, his cocky dance,
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She mocked his female fashions and
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his working-class mustache.
Interlude 4

mustache.
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Verse 5
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The last time that I saw him

he was trying hard to get
Em
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A woman's education but

he's not a woman yet
F#m
F#m
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And the last time that I saw her

she was living with some boy
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Who gives her soul an empty room
B
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Em
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and gives her body joy.
Interlude 5
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So the great
Verse 6
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affair is over but
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whoever would have guessed
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It would leave us all so vacant
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and so deeply unimpressed
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It's like our visit to the
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moon or to that other star
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I guess you go for nothing if you really
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want to go that far.
Interlude 6
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Verse 7
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It's like our visit to the moon
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or to that other star
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I guess you go for nothing if you really
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want to go that far.
Interlude 7
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It's like our visit
Verse 8

to the
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moon or to that other star
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I guess you go for nothing if
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you really want to go that far.
Outro 1

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An acoustic guitar head with tuning pegs

Tuning:Standard Open Tuner
Chords

  • D

  • E

  • Em

  • A

  • G

  • Bm

    2

  • F#m

    2

  • Eb

    6

  • Ebdim

  • B

    2

Capo: 3

Transpose: 0

0

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The original key of Death of a Ladies' Man by Leonard Cohen is F major.

The primary chords used in Death of a Ladies' Man are F, G, Gm, C, Bb, Dm.

To play in the original key, place your capo on the 3 fret.

Yes, this version uses open chords like F, G, Gm, C, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of Death of a Ladies' Man is approximately 118 beats per minute.

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