Dress Rehearsal Rag chords by Leonard Cohen
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Four o'clock in the afternoon
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B
And I didn't feel like very much.
Am
I said to myself,
"Where are you golden boy,
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B
Where is your famous golden touch?"
Am
I thought you knew where
Adim
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B
All of the elephants lie down,
Am
I thought you were the crown prince
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B
Of all the wheels in Ivory Town.
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Verse 2
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Just take a look at your body now,
Gm
There's nothing much to save
Am
And a bitter voice in the mirror cries,
Gm
"Hey, Prince, you need a shave."
Verse 3
Am
Now if you can manage to get
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Your trembling fingers to behave,
Am
Why don't you try unwrapping
Bm
A stainless steel razor blade?
Verse 4
Am
That's right, it's come to this,
Gm
G#
Yes it's come to this,
C
G
And wasn't it a long
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F
G#
way down,
G#m
C
Wasn't it a strange
way down?
F
Verse 5
Am
There's no hot water
Bm
And the cold is running thin.
Am
Well, what do you expect from
The kind of places you've
Bm
been living in?
Verse 6
Am
Don't drink from that cup,
Bm
It's all caked and cracked
along the rim.
Am
That's not the electric light, my friend,
Bm
That is your vision growing dim.
Verse 7
Am
Gm
Cover up your face with soap, there,
Eb
Now you're Santa Claus.
Am
And you've got a gift for anyone
Gm
Who will give you his applause.
Verse 8
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I thought you were a racing man,
Bm
Ah, but you couldn't take the pace.
Am
That's a funeral in the mirror
Bm
And it's stopping at your face.
Verse 9
Am
That's right, it's come to this,
Gm
Yes it's come to this,
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G
C
F
And wasn't it a long way down,
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C
Ah wasn't it a strange way down?
F
Verse 10
Am
Once there was a path
Bm
And a girl with chestnut hair,
Am
And you passed the summers
Bm
Picking all of the berries that grew there
B
Am
There were times she was a woman,
Bm
Oh, there were times she was just a child,
Am
And you held her in the shadows
Bm
Where the raspberries grow
wild.
Verse 11
Am
And you climbed the twilight mountains
Gm
Eb
And you sang about the view,
Am
And everywhere that you wandered
G
Gm
Love seemed to go along with you.
Am
That's a hard one to remember,
Bm
Yes it makes you clench your fist.
Verse 12
Am
And then the veins stand
out like highways,
Bm
All along your wrist.
Am
And yes it's come to this,
Gm
It's come to this,
G#
C
F
G#
And wasn't it a long way down,
C
F
Wasn't it a strange way down?
Verse 13
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You can still find a job,
Bm
Go out and talk to a friend.
Am
On the back of every magazine
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There are those coupons you can send.
Am
Why don't you join the Rosicrucians,
Bm
They can give you back your hope,
Am
You can find your love with diagrams
Bm
On a plain brown envelope.
Verse 14
Am
But you've used up all your coupons
Gm
Except the one that seems
Am
To be written on your wrist
Gm
Along with several thousand dreams.
Verse 15
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Now Santa Claus comes forward,
Bm
That's a razor in his mit
Am
And he puts on his dark glasses
Bm
And he shows you where to hit
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And then the cameras pan,
Gm
The stand in stunt man,
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C
F
Dress rehearsal rag,
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C
F
It's just the dress rehearsal rag,
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C
Gm
F
You know this dress rehearsal rag,
G#
C
F
Fm
It's just a dress rehearsal rag.
Dress Rehearsal Rag
Leonard Cohen
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