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Master Song easy guitar chords by
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen

1967Folk
Intro 1
Em
G
Em
G

Verse 1
F
Em

I believe that you heard your master sing
F
Em

When I was sick in bed
F
Em

I suppose that he told you everything
F
Em

That I keep locked away in my head
F
Am

Your master took you travelling
C
D

Well, at least that's what you said
G
Bm
G
Bm

And now do you come back to bring
C
B

Your prisoner wine and bread?
Em
G

Verse 2
F
Em

You met him at some temple
F
Em

Where they take your clothes at the door
F
Em

He was just a numberless man in a chair
F
Em

Who'd just come back from the war
F
Am

And you wrap up his tired face in your hair
C
D

And he hands you the apple core
G
Bm

Then he touches your lips
G
Bm

now so suddenly bare
C
B

Of all the kisses we put on some time before
Em
G

Verse 3
F
Em

And he gave you a German Shepherd to walk
F
Em

With a collar of leather and nails
F
Em

And he never once made you explain or talk
F
Em

About all of the little details
F
Am

Such as who had a word and who had a rock
C
D

And who had you through the mails
G
Bm
G
Bm

Now your love is a secret all over the block
C

And it never stops,
B

not even when your master fails
Em
G

Verse 4
F
Em

And he took you up in his aeroplane
F
Em

Which he flew without any hands
F
Em

And you cruised above the ribbons of rain
F
Em

That drove the crowd from the stands
F
Am

Then he killed the lights in a lonely lane
C
D

And an ape with angel glands
G
Bm
G
Bm

Erased the final wisps of pain
C
B

With the music of rubber bands
Em
G

Verse 5
F
Em

And now I hear your master sing
F
Em

You kneel for him to come
F
Em

His body is a golden string
F
Em

That your body is hanging from
F
Am

His body is a golden string
C
D

My body has grown numb
G
Bm
G
Bm

Oh, now you hear your master sing
C
B

Your shirt is all undone
Em
G

Verse 6
F
Em

And will you kneel beside this bed
F
Em

That we polished so long ago
F
Em

Before your master chose instead
F
Em

To make my bed of snow?
F

Your eyes are wild
Am

and your knuckles are red
C
D

And you're speaking far too low
G
Bm

No, I can't make out
G
Bm

what your master said
C
B

Before he made you go
Em
G

Verse 7
F
Em

And I think you're playing far too rough
F
Em

For a lady who's been to the moon
F
Em

I've lain by this window long enough
F
Em

To get used to an empty room
F

And your love is some dust
Am

in an old man's cuff
C
D

Who is tapping his foot to a tune
G
Bm

And your thighs are a ruin,
G
Bm

you want too much
C
B

Let's say you came back sometime too soon
Em
G

Verse 8
F
Em

I loved your master perfectly
F
Em

And I taught him all that he knew
F
Em

He was starving in some deep mystery
F
Em

Like a man who is sure what is true
F
Am

And I sent you to him with my guarantee
C
D

I could teach him something new
G
Bm

And I taught him how
G
Bm

you would long for me
C

No matter what he said,
B

no matter what you'd do
Em
G

Verse 9
F
Em

I believe that you heard your master sing
F
Em

While I was sick in bed
F
Em

I'm sure that he told you everything
F
Em

I must keep locked away in my head
F
Am

Your master took you travelling
C
D

Well, at least that's what you said
G
Bm
G
Bm

And now do you come back to bring
C
B

Your prisoner wine and bread

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Chords
  • Em

  • G

  • F

  • Am

  • C

  • D

  • Bm

    2
  • B

    2

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